The vaccination mandate is scheduled to run until November 2024. But some contend it’s time to stop, citing fewer severe COVID-19 cases, health care staffing shortages and the impending May 11 expiration of a national public health emergency.
The health care vaccination mandate is scheduled to run until November 2024. But some contend it’s time to stop now, citing fewer severe COVID-19 cases, health care staffing shortages andof a national public health emergency that has been in place since January 2020.
The inspector found that more than 40% of staff had been granted religious exemptions from getting vaccinated. But the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services does not scrutinize the rationale for such exemptions. The reason the facility was cited for a vaccination deficiency was because three employees had failed to receive their second dose of the vaccine and had no exemption on record.
Rhonda Martin, a nurse educator at the facility, said she understands people's hesitancy to get vaccinated. Though she received the initial shots and a booster, Martin still got sick from COVID-19 last fall and missed a couple weeks of work. “People said, 'You know what? I’m going to just stop working,’" said David Buckshorn, CEO of Wesley Commons in Greenwood. "To have a requirement that someone feels strongly they don’t want to follow, that really limits our ability to bring people in."
“This is an important requirement,” said Dr. Georges Benjamin, executive director of the American Public Health Association. “Not only does it protect the health care worker themself, but it also protects the patients.”"The more we drop requirements in general, the more dangerous it becomes for nursing home residents,” said Marjorie Moore, executive director of the St. Louis-based nonprofit VOYCE, which advocates for long-term care residents.
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