{"id":762216,"date":"2021-09-16T11:29:19","date_gmt":"2021-09-16T15:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=762216"},"modified":"2021-09-16T11:29:22","modified_gmt":"2021-09-16T15:29:22","slug":"ny-health-care-upended-over-vax-mandate-hospital-stops-delivering-babies-er-closes-wait-times-explode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ny-health-care-upended-over-vax-mandate-hospital-stops-delivering-babies-er-closes-wait-times-explode\/","title":{"rendered":"NY Health Care Upended Over Vax Mandate: Hospital Stops Delivering Babies, ER Closes, Wait-Times Explode"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fny-health-care-upended-over-vax-mandate-hospital-stops-delivering-babies-er-closes-wait-times-explode%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=762216&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/GettyImages-1337069508.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Medical professionals, who were hailed as heroes during the throes of the pandemic, are now resigning in droves over a dictate from the governor\u2019s office in New York requiring all healthcare workers, including long-term care facility employees, to be vaccinated, lest they be fired.<\/p>\n<p>As a consequence, the NY healthcare system \u2014 and its patients \u2014 are already feeling the strains, only compounding an established <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mytwintiers.com\/health\/nurse-shortage-in-new-york-what-two-albany-healthcare-organizations-had-to-say\/\">nurse shortage<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">A hospital in upstate New York, for example, has had to stop delivering babies and other maternity services due to employees quitting in protest of the vaccine mandate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The Democrat &amp; Chronicle <a href=\"https:\/\/www.democratandchronicle.com\/story\/news\/nation\/2021\/09\/12\/lewis-county-ny-hospital-pauses-maternity-unit-amid-vaccine-mandate\/8311448002\/\">reported<\/a> this week, \u201cSix employees at the Lewis County Health System have resigned, and seven more are unwilling to get vaccinated, meaning Lewis County General Hospital will stop delivering babies for the time being, multiple news outlets <a class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wwnytv.com\/2021\/09\/10\/hospital-stop-delivering-babies-maternity-workers-resign-over-vaccine-mandate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t-l=\":b|e|inline click|${u}\">reported<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">\u201cWe are unable to safely staff the service after Sept. 24,\u201d said Lewis County Health System CEO Gerald Cayer at a news conference.&nbsp;\u201cWe have a challenge to work through with the vaccination mandate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, an urgent care facility in Farmington, NY, had to close down due to staff shortages over the vaccine mandate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe mandate that all New York healthcare workers be vaccinated is starting to have an impact on our region,\u201d Finger Lakes Daily News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fingerlakesdailynews.com\/2021\/09\/15\/1166903\/\">reported<\/a> Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStarting Sunday, UR Medicine Thompson Health is temporarily shutting down its urgent care in Farmington due to significant staffing challenges. The center will only operate as an outpatient clinic for high-risk patients being treated for COVID,\u201d the report added. \u201cThompson Health says it is consolidating and deploying staff where needed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the mandate is awful,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.democratandchronicle.com\/story\/news\/2021\/09\/16\/nurses-speak-out-covid-vaccine-mandate-ny\/5754819001\/\">said<\/a> 20-year Thompson Hospital RN Barbara Coleman. \u201cOur healthcare system has always run on the premise that each person has autonomy in their own healthcare decisions. We had to respect their choices even if they were not choices that were in their best interest. Suddenly, this is not the case with this vaccine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Now-resigned Governor Andrew Cuomo (D-NY) on&nbsp;August 16 announced that all healthcare workers in the state of New York, including staff at hospitals and long-term care facilities such as nursing homes, adult care facilities, and other congregate care settings, are required to be vaccinated against Covid-19. Specifically, they must have at least their first dose of the vaccine by September 27. Notably, the order forbids even religious exemptions.<\/p>\n<p>As wait-times for patients explode and facilities close, Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul is standing by the vaccine dictate. Though the governor was warned last month by ten New York counties about the forthcoming staff shortages from the mandate.<\/p>\n<p>Orleans, Genesee, Wyoming, Livingston, Steuben, Wayne, Ontario, Yates, Seneca, and Schuyler counties wrote a letter to&nbsp;Hochul and state Commissioner of Health Dr. Howard Zucker begging for the mandate to be pulled back, outlining \u201cgrave concerns\u201d about implications from the order.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnecdotally, we have heard from local hospital and nursing home partners that they may have to reduce their bed capacity by as much as one-third or more if the unvaccinated employees resign rather than receive the vaccine,\u201d the letter said, according to D&amp;C reporting.<\/p>\n<p>Multiple <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lohud.com\/story\/news\/coronavirus\/2021\/09\/09\/will-ny-revise-ny-covid-vaccine-mandate\/5774999001\/\">reports<\/a> indicate that an estimated&nbsp;130,000 unvaccinated healthcare workers at hospitals and nursing homes will lose their jobs once the mandate takes effect.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, a federal judge halted Hochul\u2019s order due to an \u201cemergency\u201d addition to the dictate barring even religious exemptions. The state has one week to respond.<\/p>\n<p>Judge David Hurd issued the order giving the Hochul administration&nbsp;\u201cuntil Sept. 22 to respond to the lawsuit in federal court in Utica,\u201d ABC News&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Health\/wireStory\/judge-blocks-medical-worker-vaccine-mandate-ny-state-80014754\">reported<\/a>. \u201cIf the state opposes the plaintiffs\u2019 request for a preliminary court order blocking the vaccine mandate, a Sept. 28 oral hearing will occur.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe same front line health care workers hailed as heroes by the media for treating COVID patients before vaccines were available, including the Plaintiffs herein, are now vilified by the same media as pariahs who must be excluded from society until they are vaccinated against their will,\u201d the lawsuit underscored.<\/p>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i>member<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Medical professionals, who were hailed as heroes during the throes of the pandemic, are now resigning in droves over a dictate from the governor\u2019s office in New York requiring all &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-762216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=762216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=762216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=762216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=762216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}