Thread regarding Ascension Health layoffs

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Growing vaccine hesitancy fuels measles, chickenpox resurgence in U.S.

ANTI-VACCINE SENTIMENT HAS INCREASED since the pandemic, DRIVEN BY POLITICIZATION around the coronavirus vaccine

By Lena H. Sun

Updated December 27, 2022 at 12:14 p.m. EST|Published December 26, 2022 at 6:00 a.m. EST

A rapidly growing measles outbreak in Columbus, Ohio — largely involving unvaccinated children — is fueling concerns among health officials that more parent resistance to routine childhood immunizations will intensify a resurgence of vaccine-preventable diseases.

Most of the 82 children infected so far are old enough to get the shots, but their parents chose not to do so, officials said, resulting in the country’s largest outbreak of the highly infectious pathogen this year.

“That is what is causing this outbreak to spread like wildfire,” said Mysheika Roberts, director of the Columbus health department.

The Ohio outbreak, which began in November, comes at a time of heightened worry about the public health consequences of anti-vaccine sentiment, a long-standing problem that has led to drops in child immunization rates in pockets across the United States. The pandemic has magnified those concerns because of controversies and politicization around coronavirus vaccines and school vaccine mandates.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/12/26/vaccine-hesitancy-measles-chickenpox-polio-flu/

By WAGM News
Published: Dec. 16, 2022 at 7:29 PM EST

AROOSTOOK COUNTY, Maine (WAGM) - Hospitals are experiencing staffing issues, but are they connected to the vaccine mandate put in place during the Covid pandemic?

Jenn Plant, RN and Chief Nursing Officer at Cary Medical Center, “It wasn’t a large volume of people that affected us and it’s nothing that we’ve been seeing coming through. I think it’s pretty well known if you’re gonna be working in a hospital that you need to be Covid vaccinated. You need to be flu vaccinated. So it hasn’t really caused a huge issue. We’re still seeing plenty of nursing students come through, so that’s been extremely encouraging.”

Dr. Brian Griffin, the Chief Medical Officer at the Houlton Regional Hospital, says, “We lost just a couple at the very beginning, but it certainly hasn’t limited us at this time because everyone’s coming from Maine and they know very well what the mandate is.”

Dr. Stephanie Gillis, the Director of Primary Care at Northern Maine Medical Center says, “And I’ll say the same for Northern Maine Medical Center, We did, you know, at the beginning definitely experienced a little bit of that from the Covid vaccine mandates, but now we’re also seeing lots of nursing students still coming through from the local university and definitely having NO REAL ONGOING ISSUES WITH MANDATES.”

https://www.wagmtv.com/2022/12/17/county-hospitals-weigh-if-vaccine-mandate-is-still-impacting-staffing/

I read they closed hospitals.

There were rumors that beds started filling up with patients that had surgeries when they allowed them back in

Ascension wants to blame Covid for what began years ago when the self-proclaimed "masters of the universe" that run Ascension pushed the lie that the system was financially doomed unless they -- the executives -- were to slash jobs.

(They'll tell you it had nothing to do with their bonuses and the sick, twisted reward structure.)

(Also, it turns out management arithmetic was off by several billions and the hospital system was never in trouble.)

I worked for Ascension for years.

They're in trouble because they have an ignorant, top-down, autocratic management and, as a result, a "horribly broken" corporate culture where employees are taught to BE AFRAID. I was there fewer than two weeks when I was suddenly warned by co-workers not to question anything or I would be fired.

I've never worked in a corporate culture so shot-through with FEAR that people would behave like BEATEN-DOWN cowards. I saw shocking examples of bullying and just routine injustice in the Ascension workplace. And plenty of apathy.

Covid vaccines. Right. Go peddle that somewhere else.

No Room at the Inn!
Merry Christmas to all the expectant mothers who as of Saturday will have to go elsewhere for labor and delivery services at St Francis in Milwaukee. They very, and I mean very quietly announced the closing of the L&D unit there. No official announcement, not even a email to staff. Just a few incompetent leaders going around telling people in the hospital. Real charitable Catholics running the org to reap the benefits of huge salaries. Away in a manger, as in far away like an extra 20 miles to the nearest inn.