Mon Sep 20, 2021 – 4:43 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — The CEO of a rural Texas hospital said President Joe Biden’s requirement that all hospital staff receive the jab could lead to the facility being shut down.
“20 percent of my, probably 20 to 25 percent of my staff will have to go away if that’s the case,” Brownfield Regional Medical Center CEO Jerry Jasper told local news station KCBD on September 13. As a hospital that services low-income and elderly people, his hospital is dependent on Medicare and Medicaid.
President Joe Biden’s September 9 jab mandate covers all employees of hospitals that receive Medicare and Medicaid funding.
The mandate applies “to nursing home staff as well as staff in hospitals and other CMS [Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services]-regulated settings, including clinical staff, individuals providing services under arrangements, volunteers, and staff who are not involved in direct patient, resident, or client care,” according to the White House.
“It’s huge in our rural community as all the other rural communities,” Jasper said, speaking of the Medicaid funding stream. “We all have high poverty levels and stuff like that, so a lot of Medicaid usage in our
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