Vaccine mandate has improved Pa. hospital staffing, even after 153 workers left

Geisinger Hospital chief Dr. Jaewon Ryu says he regrets losing 153 employees over the health system’s vaccination mandate. But he’s pleased with the end result.

“Believe it or not, we gained many hundreds of folks back into our workforce because we have fewer of our employees out on quarantine,” said Ryu, Geisinger’s president and CEO, on Wednesday. “We think it has actually added people into our work environment and not taken away.”

Geisinger Hospital is among a handful of Pennsylvania health systems requiring employees to get vaccinated or lose their jobs.

Many hospitals initially got on board with a mandate after the Biden administration said all health care providers who receive Medicare funding must have employees fully vaccinated by Jan. 4.

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