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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,881 posts)
Mon Sep 13, 2021, 07:36 PM Sep 2021

Hospital maternity ward on "pause" after unvaxxed staff resigns

An upstate New York hospital will stop delivering babies later this month, in part because employees have quit over a requirement they be vaccinated against COVID-19.

Six maternity staff members resigned from Lewis County General Hospital last week, worsening an existing staff shortage, the Watertown Daily Times reported. The department has seven other unvaccinated employees who also could decide to leave, hospital officials said.

"The number of resignations received leaves us no choice but to pause delivering babies at Lewis County General Hospital," the hospital's CEO Gerald Cayer said at a news conference Friday. "It is my hope that the [state] Department of Health will work with us in pausing the service rather than closing the maternity department."

The maternity-services "pause" will begin on September 25.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/hospital-maternity-ward-on-pause-after-unvaxxed-staff-resigns/ar-AAOoA81

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Hospital maternity ward on "pause" after unvaxxed staff resigns (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Sep 2021 OP
Here's hoping that there are some vaxxed midwives available. These abqtommy Sep 2021 #1
Can't resist.... paleotn Sep 2021 #2
That sucks NQAS Sep 2021 #3

abqtommy

(14,118 posts)
1. Here's hoping that there are some vaxxed midwives available. These
Mon Sep 13, 2021, 07:38 PM
Sep 2021

unvaxxed quitters should be charged with criminal offenses.

paleotn

(17,911 posts)
2. Can't resist....
Mon Sep 13, 2021, 07:46 PM
Sep 2021


Requiescat in pace, Powers Boothe. You live on as the perfect "don't let the door hit you on the way out" meme.
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