Texas Hospital Faces Closure Over COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate: CEO

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The chief executive of a hospital in Texas warned that his facility faces closure after President Joe Bidenโ€™s announcement last week that most healthcare workers get the COVID-19 vaccine.

If the mandate goes through, Brownfield Regional Medical Center CEO Jerry Jasper said that โ€œ20 percent of my, probably 20 to 25 percent of my staff will have to go away if thatโ€™s the case,โ€ reported KCBD. Losing those workers, he said, would likely cause his hospital to shut down, and losing Medicare and Medicaid money isnโ€™t an option either.

A White House stipulates that healthcare workers who work at hospitals and facilities that receive either Medicaid or Medicare funds will have to get the COVID-19 vaccine.

โ€œItโ€™s huge in our rural community as all the other rural communities. We all have high poverty levels and stuff like that, so a lot of Medicaid usage in our communities and stuff like that,โ€ Jasper remarked to the station.

Another local hospital executive said that the mandate echoed Jasperโ€™s sentiments.

โ€œWell, it would be devastating for the community, frankly. We have a large percentage of our revenue that comes from Medicare, Medicaid, and those kinds of products,โ€ Larry Gray, the CEO of the Seminole Hospital District, told the station.

While Gray said he encourages vaccines, mandates donโ€™t work.

โ€œI think the mandate is just a terrible message because if the vaccinations are working, why do you have to mandate people to get the vaccines?โ€ Gray asked. โ€œWhat happens to individual choice and medical decisions between the patient and their doctor, which is all of the things that weโ€™re trying to support.โ€

Other than mandates for healthcare workers, Biden also announced he would direct the federalย Occupational Safety and Health Administration to enforce a rule against companies with 100 or more workers that employees either get the vaccine or submit to weekly COVID-19 testing. Federal workers and contractors will also have to get the vaccine, he said.

Byย Jack Phillips

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