A Total of 4 States Receive Help From National Guard to Alleviate Health Care Staffing Crisis.

An additional three states have joined Maine in requesting the aid of the National Guard due to health care staffing shortages caused by tyrannical vaccine mandates.

Late last week, Indiana became the most recent state to deploy the National Guard to hospitals. The Indiana Department of Health confirmed to local media that National Guard service members were sent to 13 facilities after officials with Indiana University Health, the state’s largest hospital system, sent up the request.

Indiana University officials said it’s dealing with “all-time highs” of both COVID-19 and non-COVID-19 patients. Earlier this year, about 125 Indiana University health care workers were fired for not complying with the system’s vaccine mandate. A workforce article posted September 17th, 2021 by Kelly Gooch details the removal of 125 employees.

Some employees at IU Health have left the Indianapolis-based organization after choosing not to receive the COVID-19 vaccine, which had been mandated by the health system. 

After a two-week unpaid suspension period ending Sept. 14, 125 of its 36,000 employees, the equivalent of 61 full-time employees, have left, the system told Becker’s. The system’s deadline to get the COVID-19 vaccine was Sept. 1, and workers who failed to meet that deadline were suspended. Employees were allowed to return to work once they had received at least one vaccine dose. Those who remained unvaccinated faced losing their jobs. 

“As COVID cases continue to increase and hospitalization of COVID and non-COVID patients reach all-time highs, the demand and strain on IU Health’s team members, nurses and providers has never been greater,” Indiana University Health said over the weekend, adding that it “will leverage all available resources and enlist members of Indiana’s National Guard, in conjunction with the Indiana Department of Health, to assist in areas of critical need.”

Six-person National Guard teams with both clinical and nonclinical members will be sent to Indiana University hospitals in two-week intervals, officials said.

Indiana University Health claimed to not need any help very recently and explicitly stated that they do not expect the vacancies to cause any serious staffing issues. For starters, they just got done telling NewsWeek this on Sep 16, 2021:

“Most of the employees who chose not to be vaccinated worked part time, less than part time or have not worked for a number of months and will have a minimal effect on staffing. IU Health has been working for several months to hire for positions in areas where team members have shown non-compliance,” the spokesperson said.

In New Hampshire, authorities confirmed several days ago that about 70 Guard members would be deployed within the coming weeks to provide nonclinical support at medical care facilities.

“Primarily, we’re going to start with non-clinical care in the hospitals, and the primary reason why is—we’re a part-time force,” National Guard Maj. Gen. David Mikolaities told local media in a statement. “And for us to utilize our doctors and nurses and physician assistants, we don’t want to take away from the health care system that is already strained.”

That deployment will start on Dec. 12 or Dec. 13, he confirmed.

“If unfortunately during the winter months, the hospitalization rates continue to increase, we’ll be more than happy to provide additional resources,” Mikolaities said.

In Maine, Democrat Gov. Janet Mills said on Dec. 8 that she activated about 75 additional National Guard members. They’ll also be used to provide nonclinical support to health care facilities, coming months after the state issued a vaccine mandate for health workers that several courts refused to block.

Maine’s largest hospital—the Maine Medical Center—”has had no critical care beds available” during the past week, said CEO Joel Botler in a statement, adding that the hospital had to shut down six operating rooms in addition to the six that were previously closed.

And in New York, Gov. Kathy Hochul announced that the state’s National Guard would conduct a similar mission at state hospitals.

The Guard will deploy some 120 Army medics and Air Force medical technicians to 12 long-term facilities and nursing homes “to ease staffing shortages,” according to a statement from the National Guard. Gov. Kathy Hochul, issued the order at the start of December, citing what she said is a seasonal rise in COVID-19 cases.

Service members are being sent to facilities in Goshen, Syracuse, Rochester, Albany, Buffalo, Utica, Plattsburgh, Uniondale, Liberty, Vestal, Olean, and Lyons, the Guard confirmed in a statement.

The decision came weeks after thousands of New York-based health care workers were placed on unpaid leave following the implementation of Hochul’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate, which caused staffing disruptions. Neither Hochul nor the Guard has mentioned the COVID-19 mandate amid the deployment.

The truth is, they don’t want to speak about the vaccine mandate because they know that there are real, hard working Americans who have been displaced. So they don’t want to give the people a pedestal to stand on, they want to keep everyone affected by the medical tyranny very quiet. Are we to seriously believe that nobody has anything to say about this? People in the public eye are scared to speak out, because fans are fickle. Never mind your social status when your God given rights are being stripped of you. Anyone can take a look out there and know that it’s time to work on your relationship with God. Because in the blink of an eye everything that we have can be taken from us. Stay inquisitive in the word of God, and the world around you.

Source: EpochTimes