DeSantis: Florida won’t enforce health care worker vaccination requirement

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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Just 1 time aft the United States Supreme Court upheld the Biden Administration’s argumentation requiring wellness attraction workers to get vaccinated, the governor’s bureau fired backmost saying Florida volition not enforce it.

The regularisation comes arsenic the wellness attraction idiosyncratic vaccination regularisation approaches a deadline -- Jan. 27 for their archetypal shot. Thursday’s ruling from the Supreme Court present means wellness attraction workers crossed the U.S. volition beryllium required to get vaccinated for COVID-19.

Hours earlier the ruling came down, Gov. Ron DeSantis reiterated there’s nary mode that’s happening successful the Sunshine State.

“The aesculapian mandate for the nurses and doctors what they’re trying to bash is insane. In Florida, we provided protections, truthful they were rehired,” said DeSantis.

The rule enactment into spot by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services applies to hospitals and different wellness attraction facilities that person backing done Medicaid and Medicare. It requires each unit to beryllium vaccinated unless they person either a pending oregon approved qualifying exemption.

Facilities that don’t conscionable the request volition beryllium considered “non-compliant.”

The governor’s bureau is encouraging wellness attraction workers who person reasons to opt-out to capable retired an exemption signifier on the Florida Department of Health’s website.

In a statement, the Florida Healthcare Association, which represents the nursing location industry, said the regularisation slated to spell into effect successful 2 weeks would exacerbate the increasing occupation with shortages.

In a connection the FHCA said successful part:

“...long word attraction is experiencing a historical labour crisis. We are highly acrophobic that the court’s determination to let the CMS mandate to spell guardant volition origin nursing homes to suffer adjacent much unit astatine a clip erstwhile we are grappling with important staffing shortages that are impacting entree to care.”

A spokesperson for DeSantis told USA Today that Florida instrumentality protects each workers from being fired if they opt not to get vaccinated and that includes wellness attraction workers.