Federal CMS is withholding payments to hospitals that are not mandating the vax. Anyone else seeing this among their local hospitals, particularly when the hospital had previously taken a no-mandated-jab stance?
It is outright extortion. This is federal overreach, and I hope hospital administrators band together in a lawsuit.
Edit: CMS is Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) https://www.cms.gov/
Same here. I already have a religious exemption at one hospital I work at (who was already mandating it). Another hospital I’m a contract RN at just announced the mandate (previously had none). Same dates mentioned by others. Supposedly they’ve suggested calling in the state guard to make up for all the employment loss they’re expecting. A near consensus of those on my unit are saying they won’t get it/will quit but sadly that happened at my other hospital and many ended up “just getting it”. But these people are quite a bit more rural so...I think they actually have some balls.