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Staff Shortages Force New York Hospital to Close Emergency Room as Winter COVID Surge Looms
https://www.msn.com ^ | 11/26/2021 | Natalie Colarossi - Tuesday

Posted on 11/28/2021 9:06:48 PM PST by RomanSoldier19

hospital in Nassau County, New York, was forced to close its emergency department this week due to staffing shortages as a result of the state's COVID-19 vaccination requirement.

Mount Sinai South Nassau said on Monday that it would temporarily close the ER in Long Beach after all other options for staffing were exhausted. Thus, patients who are in need of emergency services will be directed to the hospital's main campus in Oceanside, located roughly five miles away. The travel time could take up to 25 minutes in traffic, according to WABC.

The hospital said that an ambulance will be stationed at the ER at all times for the duration of the closure, which will last up to four weeks, according to a press release shared with Newsweek. The closure could be expanded behind that time frame depending on updated staffing availability.

"We regret having to take this step but the safety of our patients is always our No. 1 priority," Mount Sinai South Nassau President Adhi Sharma said in a statement. "This will allow us to shift nursing staff to the Oceanside campus to ensure that we maintain adequate staffing at the Emergency Department at our main campus."

The staffing shortages came as a result of the state's vaccine mandate, which now requires the suspension of all staff working under temporary religious exemptions who have not shown proof of at least the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine or a valid medical exemption.

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KEYWORDS: hubris; stupidity
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1 posted on 11/28/2021 9:06:48 PM PST by RomanSoldier19
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See, once they expel the medical staff who are actually qualified to perform medical services, know medicine, and have 2 year’s experience with Covid SARS, (and understand EXACTLY WHY they are refusing the jab), only then can they insert mouth pieces.

Biden’s mouth-pieces will tell us whatever the regime wants them to tell us about what is going on in the hospitals, with the latest ‘variant’ and, its risks, mortality, on-going death-counts, and of course what you need to do, medically speaking...

And what timing, just in time for the upcoming 2022 mid-term elections.

Certainly we will need to invoke new election-Covid protocols to mitigate the risks...

Nancy Reagan teaches us. Just say no.


2 posted on 11/28/2021 9:18:20 PM PST by Bshaw (A nefarious deceit is upon us all!)
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To: RomanSoldier19

Enforce stupid policies, win stupid prizes.

Cultural divorce. Because your life may well depend on it.


3 posted on 11/28/2021 9:18:24 PM PST by RKBA Democrat (Culture, culture, culture. Not partisan politics. )
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To: RomanSoldier19

See! It’s the UNVAXXED fault!
RHEEE!


4 posted on 11/28/2021 9:23:02 PM PST by Do_Tar (Do I really need a /sarc?)
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To: RomanSoldier19

10 million recent arrivals are available for work at 1/3 the price.
Just Nother step in The Great Replacement.


5 posted on 11/28/2021 9:23:42 PM PST by Macoozie (Handcuffs and Orange Jumpsuits)
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To: RomanSoldier19

Just to be clear, eliminating staff in no way causes staff shortages. To say otherwise is raciest and means you are a white supremacist.


6 posted on 11/28/2021 9:25:49 PM PST by JoSixChip (2020: The year of unreported truths. )
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7 posted on 11/28/2021 9:31:04 PM PST by musicman (The future is just a collection of successive nows.)
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8 posted on 11/28/2021 9:42:21 PM PST by RomanSoldier19
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To: Do_Tar

“”We regret having to take this step but the safety of our patients is always our No. 1 priority,”

if patients were your number one priority, then you morons should not have gone thru with this idiotic fake serum mandate..


9 posted on 11/28/2021 9:48:44 PM PST by max americana (FIRED LEFTARD employees at our office every election since 2008 and enjoyed seeing them cry.)
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10 posted on 11/28/2021 9:58:48 PM PST by RomanSoldier19 (Res ad Triarios venit)
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11 posted on 11/28/2021 9:59:05 PM PST by Dick Bachert
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To: Bshaw

If the rats think they can parlay this stupidity into a 2020 style election fiasco, they are really missing the boat. The hysteria of 2020 will not last beyond the initial panic response last Friday. Nobody today thinks this sh*t is real, and the proof is the rebounding markets in Europe already open.


12 posted on 11/28/2021 10:12:06 PM PST by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative.)
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To: RomanSoldier19
"We regret having to take this step but the safety of our patients is always our No. 1 priority," Mount Sinai South Nassau President Adhi Sharma said in a statement as he closes the ER.

Because nothing says safety like atopping the services that provide emergency, life saving care.

I was at the ER with mr. . mm one evening when a guy came in holding his arm which leaking an alarming amount of blood all over the floor at the ER entrance.

An ambulance ride to a distant hospital would be just what he needed…..

13 posted on 11/28/2021 10:18:13 PM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith)
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To: Macoozie
You mean janitor and sheet right?

There ain't no Doc's Resp's, Nurse's , Aid's gonna take job's they have no license's to do the work,..

14 posted on 11/28/2021 10:20:40 PM PST by Osage Orange (1961 VW Two Door Truck)
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To: hinckley buzzard
If the rats think they can parlay this stupidity into a 2020 style election fiasco, they are really missing the boat. The hysteria of 2020 will not last beyond the initial panic response last Friday. Nobody today thinks this sh*t is real, and the proof is the rebounding markets in Europe already open.

Sad to say, they do.

I have a relative who is not doing any family gatherings because of the dangerous new variants. She’s convinced that Delta and Omicron are more dangerous that the original.

She rushed out and got her boosters to protect herself.

15 posted on 11/28/2021 10:22:22 PM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith)
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To: RomanSoldier19

Closing things due to allegedly COVID fears and COVID induced shortages is so last year. Has anyone else noticed multiple basketball and football teams having team members get sick with “flu” or “non-COVID” illness recently, yet playing games through it. They just sit or rest the ill kids. The OLD normal. At Iowa they had multiple football players, including top two QBs out of practice sick, but returned leading team to victory and Big10 west title. Iowa Men’s BB has had a couple one game absences but has played all and remains undefeated. But Iowa Women’s BB had reportedly sick folks PLUS positive Covid tests and have had to skip 3 games. Stop viral discrimination! Skip the lying Covid tests the demonstrably failed contact tracking and treat it all such bugs the OLD normal way.


16 posted on 11/28/2021 10:34:13 PM PST by JohnBovenmyer (Biden/Harris press events are called dodo op)
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To: metmom

“We regret having to take this step but the safety of our patients is always our No. 1 priority,” Mount Sinai South Nassau President Adhi Sharma said in a statement as he closes the ER.
Because nothing says safety like atopping the services that provide emergency, life saving care.

I was at the ER with mr. . mm one evening when a guy came in holding his arm which leaking an alarming amount of blood all over the floor at the ER entrance.

An ambulance ride to a distant hospital would be just what he needed…
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Amen!


17 posted on 11/28/2021 10:53:19 PM PST by Freedom56v2 (It's not the job of the unvaxxed to protect the vaxxed. That's the job of the "vaccine.")
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To: RomanSoldier19

You mean the same cold and flu season that happens every year?


18 posted on 11/28/2021 11:05:12 PM PST by Trillian
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To: max americana

100%


19 posted on 11/29/2021 1:51:06 AM PST by whershey
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To: RomanSoldier19; All
Cloudy days. Less sunshine. Less Vitamin D3 which reduces Covid effects. Most Covid patients have sub-par levels of this vitamin. Dozens of studies reflect this phenomenon.

Zinc, Quercitin are good ingredients to add the the V3 cocktail.

20 posted on 11/29/2021 1:58:23 AM PST by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymore.)
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