“We are staffing up and we are getting ready for the possibility of more people who have been granted this leeway from their employers,” Hochul said. Hochul said thousands of student nurses and other health care workers have been authorized to be deployed, if necessary, through an emergency executive order she issued Monday that waives existing licensing rules. Some health care facilities have allowed workers seeking the exemption to remain on staff while the court challenge is heard legal arguments will be heard early in October. Hochul added that the outcome of a court case challenging the state’s rule that disallows religious exemptions could cause deeper staffing shortages. Some hospitals have postponed elective surgeries or temporarily closed down satellite offices. 7 mandate that those workers also get vaccinated or lose their jobs.ĭespite that, the governor estimates that hundreds of hospital workers have been laid off or suspended for refusing the vaccine.
She said vaccination rates for nursing home staff and home health care workers are also rising in anticipation of an Oct. Hochul said 92% of all hospital workers in the state have received at least one dose of the vaccine. Kathy Hochul said Thursday that the COVID-19 vaccine mandate for hospital workers has not caused any major crises in the first three days of the requirement, but she says there are still staffing shortages and ongoing court action that create uncertainty.
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