HCA - Some hospitals end COVID vaccine mandate in bid to address worker shortage - WSJ

Some hospitals, including those run by operators HCA Healthcare (HCA +0.6%) and Tenet Healthcare (THC +0.3%) are abandoning COVID-19 mandates for staff as a way to address workforce shortages, The Wall Street Journal reports. According to a CDC survey, 30% of workers at more than 2,000 hospitals were unvaccinated as of September. The decision comes after a federal judge recently blocked a mandate from the Biden administration that all healthcare workers have COVID vaccination as a condition of work. An HCA spokesman told the newspaper that a majority of its employees are vaccinated. A Tenet spokesman said that it wouldn't require workers to be vaccinated. Both HCA and Tenet noted that workers in states with their own mandates would have to follow those. Credit Suisse recently named HCA one of its "Top of the Crop" picks.

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Some hospitals end COVID vaccine mandate in bid to address worker shortage - WSJ