Thu Aug 19, 2021 – 2:26 pm EDTThu Aug 19, 2021 – 2:47 pm EDT
WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) – President Joe Biden has mandated that nursing homes require all employees to receive a COVID-19 vaccination as a condition of receiving federal funding.
The policy’s date of implementation has yet to be announced, but “all nursing homes will have to require staff members to be vaccinated to keep receiving Medicare and Medicaid funding, which will affect about 15,000 nursing homes and more than 1.3 million employees,” NBC News reported Wednesday.
“Nursing homes heavily depend on Medicare and Medicaid funds, and some have raised concerns that they would lose staff members if they required them to be vaccinated in an already tight job market,” NBC continued.
“With this announcement, I’m using the power of the federal government, as a payer of healthcare costs, to ensure we reduce those risks to our most vulnerable seniors,” Biden said in his Wednesday comments.
“If you visit, live, or work in a nursing home, you should not be at a high risk for contracting COVID from unvaccinated employees,” Biden said.
Trade associations representing nursing home and elder care facilities have said they
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