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Related: About this forumHospital 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

abqtommy
(14,118 posts)unvaxxed quitters should be charged with criminal offenses.
paleotn
(20,304 posts)Requiescat in pace, Powers Boothe. You live on as the perfect "don't let the door hit you on the way out" meme.
NQAS
(10,749 posts)But Im happy to see the hospital stick y to o their requirements.