Category: healthcare

Hospital System That Operates in 19 States Blocked From Firing Workers Over Vaccine: Oklahoma AG

Oklahoma was granted a temporary restraining order that blocks Ascension Healthcare from terminating employees who were denied religious exemptions from the firm’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate. Oklahoma Attorney General John O’Connor had filed for a restraining order against the company’s requirement. On the night of Nov. 12, a Tulsa district judge granted the request, according to…


GE Investors Hope Split Remedies Years of Lackluster Performance

NEW YORK—With General Electric’s (GE.N) decision to break up into three separate companies, investors who have held the stock through a long, troubled period may be hoping the move will give the conglomerate’s underperforming shares a jolt. The 129-year-old industrial conglomerate announced on Tuesday it would split into three businesses focusing on aviation, energy and…


Closing Pennsylvania Hospital Gives 293 Employees Layoff Notice

Tower Health, a regional Pennsylvania health care system, issued a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) notice this week in anticipation of closing one of its hospitals. It is one of many financial moves the system is making. “Early in the pandemic, the government mandated the shutdown of all nonessential health care services,” Richard Wells,…


Possible Cyberattack Disrupts Healthcare Services in Canadian Province: Minister

A possible cyber attack against the healthcare system in the Canadian province of Newfoundland has disrupted services and forced the cancellation of some appointments, health authorities said on Monday. An investigation was under way to understand the nature and extent of the attack, which was detected on Saturday, health minister John Haggie told reporters. “This…


Fire at Romanian COVID-19 Hospital Kills Seven People

BUCHAREST—Seven people died on Friday when a fire broke out in a Romanian intensive care unit treating COVID-19 patients, officials said, the country’s third deadly hospital fire in less than a year. Video footage showed patients jumping out of windows from the hospital’s lower levels and firefighters carrying people out. The country’s emergency response unit…


Orange County Healthcare Workers Protest Vaccine Mandate

FOUNTAIN VALLEY, Calif.—Around 60 healthcare workers and Orange County residents gathered Oct. 1 at downtown Fountain Valley, California, to protest the COVID-19 vaccine mandate for healthcare workers. The California Department of Public Health issued an order in August requiring all healthcare workers to be fully vaccinated by Sept. 30. A recently established organization, America’s Healthcare…


Hospitals Fear Staffing Shortages as Vaccine Deadlines Loom

Hospitals and nursing homes around the United States are bracing for worsening staff shortages as state deadlines arrive for health care workers to get vaccinated against COVID-19. With ultimatums taking effect this week in states like New York, California, Rhode Island, and Connecticut, the fear is that some employees will quit or let themselves be…


Unvaccinated Health Care Workers in Long Island Rally Against Vaccine Mandate

As New York State’s mandate for all health care workers to be vaccinated against the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus went into effect on Sept. 27, several unvaccinated health care industry employees and their supporters held a rally outside St. Catherine of Siena Medical Center in Smithtown, Long Island. The rally began at 11 a.m.,…


Unvaccinated Health Care Workers on Long Island Rally Against Vaccine Mandate

SMITHTOWN, New York—As New York State’s mandate for all health care workers to be vaccinated against the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus went into effect on Sept. 27, several unvaccinated health care industry employees and their supporters held a rally outside St. Catherine of Siena Medical Center in Smithtown, Long Island. The rally began at…


Election Campaign Day 35: Trust Me, Says Trudeau; Tories not ‘Wedging People’ on Vaccination, Says O’Toole

With only two days left before Canadians head to the polls, party leaders focused on issues ranging from trust and security to personal freedoms and health care. Liberals During a campaign stop in Aurora, Ont., on Sept. 18, Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau was asked why Canadians should trust him given he had previously promised not…