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    Major Michigan health system looking for nurses overseas

    DETROIT (AP) — A major Michigan heath care provider said it is looking overseas for hundreds of nurses.

    Henry Ford Health System is working on a plan to bring nurses to southeastern Michigan, especially from The Philippines, said chief executive Wright Lassiter III.

    We are working on a large swath of folks coming in the first quarter of next year to be able to provide service by summer, hopefully, once we get through the training and immigration process," Lassiter said Wednesday at the Mackinac Policy Conference on Mackinac Island.

    Henry Ford Health has an "extreme challenge" in filling jobs throughout the system, from patient care to housekeeping, he said.

    Henry Ford Health last week said it had dropped 120 beds from five hospitals due to staff shortages. Beaumont Health said it was idling 5% of its beds...

    https://www.usnews.com/news/best-sta...eas-for-nurses


    Of course nowhere in the article does it even hint this could be the reason for the shortage...

    Henry Ford Health System to Require COVID-19 Vaccination for its Workforce | Henry Ford Health System - Detroit, MI

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    We have friends that have family in the Philippines who say that the majority of Filipinos are getting vaxxed ... like everywhere else, because of the promise of things going back to normal. So, I imagine that most of their population is vaxxed, therefore they probably can get nice, compliant nursing staff.

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    Our major hospital system up has held off on vaxx mandate. Saw a friend today and she said if they do mandate, 40% will walk off the shift and out the door. They are pushing back and right where it hurts. This is not 1982 where you had 100 people at the gate wanting your job. Not anymore.

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    The state of New York is planning to employ the National Guard to fill hospital vacancies due to the vaccination mandate.

    I prefer New Jersey's approach: those who don't want to be vaccinated are regularly tested; as long as they test negative they're good to go. Seems logical to me.

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    I wouldn't subject myself to the swab up the nose test at all. I've had three of them. One tester just swabbed inside my nose. Another tester jammed that swab so far up my nose -- it was painful. Another test was self-administered so I chose the pressure. But still, the PCR test doesn't work, so pfffft.

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    I wouldn't subject myself to the swab up the nose test at all. I've had three of them. One tester just swabbed inside my nose. Another tester jammed that swab so far up my nose -- it was painful. Another test was self-administered so I chose the pressure. But still, the PCR test doesn't work, so pfffft.
    The test is problematic. There needs to be a reworked standardization. One test. Not 3.

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    They aren't the only hospital network in Michigan looking at importing foreign nurses.

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    This is another large Michigan Health System that also has a shortage of employees, of course no one even hints that the problem could be the termination of numerous good employees that did not want to get jabbed.


    FEMA to send 22 temporary employees to Michigan Hospital

    DEARBORN, Mich. (FOX 2) - Officials with Beaumont Dearborn met with FEMA on Monday to ask for help. One day later their request was granted, bringing hospital reinforcements to town next Monday.

    The hospital is battling through an influx of Covid patients and not enough staff to handle them. So when the opportunity came to request help, they took it.

    Starting next week. Twenty-two employees from all over the country will clock in at the hospital.

    "The make-up of them, should be a large number of nurses, some respiratory therapists, and a couple physicians," said David Claeys, Beaumont Dearborn president.

    While any help is appreciated he said 22 is not nearly enough.

    "If we had somewhere between 200 and 300 just at Dearborn alone, that would make us feel a lot better and for the entire health system, 1,000 nurses would be fantastic," he said.

    The state of Michigan was given this opportunity from FEMA because we are currently the state seeing the biggest increase in new covid cases. Health officials link it to two factors:

    Kids are back to in-person learning, coupled with a drastic temperature drop.

    "Bringing Covid potentially, and Covid variants home, to their family members who are potentially unvaccinated," Claeys said. "We've seen about a 200 percent increase in the number of Covid patients in the hospitals in Beaumont from September until now, and we think it's due to the weather and people being driven inside."

    When you add the lack of workers due to early retirement, that is when this combination really gets dangerous...

    FEMA to send 22 temporary employees to Beaumont Dearborn

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    Quote Originally Posted by Highly Favoured View Post
    I wouldn't subject myself to the swab up the nose test at all. I've had three of them. One tester just swabbed inside my nose. Another tester jammed that swab so far up my nose -- it was painful. Another test was self-administered so I chose the pressure. But still, the PCR test doesn't work, so pfffft.
    I do not think you can do a accurate nose test yourself, it is so painful. I also hate the throat ones.

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