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An upstate New York hospital system said it will be forced to pause maternity services later this month after employees refusing to vaccinate against the coronavirus have caused staffing shortages.
Lewis County Health System is experiencing mass resignations as a result of its Covid-19 vaccine mandate, putting some services at risk, Lewis County Health System CEO Gerald R. Cayer said Friday. The maternity unit is already seeing staff shortages, with at least six resignations so far and seven others who have expressed an unwillingness to be vaccinated.
We are unable to safely staff the service after Sept. 24, Cayer said. The number of resignations received leaves us no choice but to pause delivering babies at Lewis County General Hospital.
Hospital administrators are working on "contingency plans" in the case more mass resignations put other essential services at risk.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/new-york-hospital-pause-delivering-babies-after-staffers-quit-rather-n1279001
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Personally, if I were a low risk mom, I would be looking for a midwife willing to do a home birth (in these times, I think I'd want a home birth anyway!)
choie
(4,102 posts)refuse to get vaccinated??
RKP5637
(67,031 posts)FarPoint
(12,209 posts)They do not rise to the professional level is providing a Standard of Care...they are the ones we need to week out of the medical field.
Mr.Bill
(24,103 posts)Same as the rest of them.
RKP5637
(67,031 posts)Horse with no Name
(33,956 posts)That any facility that accepts Medicare/Medicaid will require all staff to be vaccinated. There are still places these unvaccinated nurses can go. Once that takes effect, they will have to leave nursing or get vaccinated.
Dream Girl
(5,111 posts)Nursing hen this takes effect. Not sure Im tracking, but interested in what youre saying.
Horse with no Name
(33,956 posts)Currently, not all facilities require vaccination and the nurses are leaving the facilities that do and going to the facilities that dont require it.
Once this takes effect, there is nowhere for them to go. They will either have to vaccinate or find another career.
rickyhall
(4,889 posts)It's like mechanics who refuse to replace the oil in their cars or butchers who refuse to throw our rotten meat. It boggles the mind.
lindysalsagal
(20,440 posts)This is religion.
aeromanKC
(3,307 posts)Liberal In Texas
(13,453 posts)I for one assumed all the medical staff I've been around were vaccinated. Probably wrongly. I have asked a few and gotten positive responses but trying to remember to ask everyone in the office is harder.
Scrivener7
(50,773 posts)Those nurses would likely have to move in order to get a new job. And how easy would it be for a non-vaxxed nurse to get a new job? It's one thing for them to not be fired, but who will hire them?
Silent3
(15,018 posts)A lot of the anti-vax propadanda comes from the "mommy blogger" contingent, where there's an unfortunate intersection of nurturing with all things "natural", where a preference for that which is deemed natural turns into a lot of woo, pseudoscience and anti-science.
Maybe a lot of that crosses over into people who focus on delivering babies as well?
carpetbagger
(4,383 posts)Two choices...
1) present your body with one of the parts of the virus so it learns how to defend itself from the whole virus
2) get a workng copy of all 30 proteins and a fully replicating virus, your body will deal with it in the same way, but in the meantime to give it time you'll try dewormer from Merck, then end up in the hospital, get steroids, piped in oxygen, another drug devloped by the drug company whose board was chaired by Donald Rumsfeld until he got tapped by Bush, and possibly get a plastic tube shoved down your throat along with the drugs that killed Michael Jackson and Prince to keep you from pulling it out in your delirium.
"natural"
Silent3
(15,018 posts)(I suppose I could just end the post with that subject line) the part where they need anything else beyond denial is going to happen to them.
Klaralven
(7,510 posts)...
The overwhelming number of our nurses are female and young and in childbearing years, Levine says. Rumors on social media caused some young women to fear that the mRNA vaccines such as those made by Pfizer Inc. and Moderna Inc. could affect their fertility. Thats not true. But its a worry thats taken firm hold in some circles, even after the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists said publicly that there is no evidence the vaccine harms fertility.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-26/covid-vaccine-mandates-drive-some-nurses-to-leave-america-s-hospitals
I haven't found data on percent vaccinated by age and sex. In general, there are more women vaccinated than men. However, that is probably because in the over 65 age group, which is vaccinated at high rates, there are lots more men than women.
I'd bet that in the 18 to 45 year old age group, a higher percentage of women than men are unvaccinated.
Jilly_in_VA
(9,852 posts)although I know there's been hesitancy among a lot of pregnant women about getting vaccinated. One thing that is true is that unvaccinated pregnant women who get Covid are much more likely to die. Someone needs to broadcast that.
Another thing that seems to hold water is that ivermectin can cause infertility in men. Whether that's temporary or permanent I don't know. Maybe it should be fed to men in certain parts of Texass. /s
Also, Ballad Health is the OTHER corporation responsible for ruining community hospitals in Tennessee (and Virginia). Tennova being the first and the one I hold the most venom towards because it killed not one but two hospitals I used to work for...two large urban hospitals, one of which was a Top 100 Heart Hospital. Ballad is a comparative newbie to the process.