Nearly one in four beds lies empty at TaraVista Behavioral Health Center in central Massachusetts -- not for lack of patients, but for lack of staff. Even before the pandemic, nurses and lower-paid aides were in perennially short supply, but the 116-bed facility could still run full, said Chief Executive Officer Michael Krupa. At similar hospitals around Massachusetts, hundreds of beds can’t be filled, and “the reason is exclusively staff,” he said.
“We don’t have a single position we can afford to lose right now,” Eric Dickson, president of UMass Memorial Health, told Bloomberg Radio last month. “I have areas that have a 50% vacancy rate. And God forbid we lose any more.”
The hospital’s vaccine mandate kicks in Nov. 1, he said, and “I am hopeful we will not lose many staff. But I know we will lose some.”
So no covid dead filling hospitals, but staff shortages which will get worse when covid mandates will hit. And please note that several large hospital chains have already started their own covid vaccination mandates.
I think it is a contest between how many staff they can kill with the jab and how many patients they can kill with the hospital protocols to claim their Covid bounties. KILL THEM! KILL THEM ALL!
So no covid dead filling hospitals, but staff shortages which will get worse when covid mandates will hit.
I wonder how many hospitals are finding themselves with more staff leaving over mandatory vax than bodies leaving in bags over covid? That would be an interesting metric to compile and publish if accurate figures can be found.
Nearly one in four beds lies empty at TaraVista Behavioral Health Center in central Massachusetts -- not for lack of patients, but for lack of staff.
Even before the pandemic, nurses and lower-paid aides were in perennially short supply, but the 116-bed facility could still run full, said Chief Executive Officer Michael Krupa. At similar hospitals around Massachusetts, hundreds of beds can’t be filled, and “the reason is exclusively staff,” he said.
“We don’t have a single position we can afford to lose right now,” Eric Dickson, president of UMass Memorial Health, told Bloomberg Radio last month. “I have areas that have a 50% vacancy rate. And God forbid we lose any more.”
The hospital’s vaccine mandate kicks in Nov. 1, he said, and “I am hopeful we will not lose many staff. But I know we will lose some.”
So no covid dead filling hospitals, but staff shortages which will get worse when covid mandates will hit. And please note that several large hospital chains have already started their own covid vaccination mandates.