Video: Mandatory Swine Flu Vaccination For All NY Health Care Workers 7th September 2009 2 Minutes 17 Seconds
From YNN News, Rochester, NY (9/06/09)
A vaccine for the H1N1 virus, or swine flu, is still a month away at best. But health care workers are already being bumped to the front of the line.
Those who work in health care are being strongly urged by the federal government to get immunized once the swine flu vaccine is available. The state of New York is taking it one step further by making vaccination a requirement.
Health care professionals do have an obligation to protect their patients, but at what cost? For one health care worker the new state directive intended to stop the spread of H1N1 goes too far.
Just a word like pandemic is enough to scare anyone in the health care field. For registered nurse Deborah Gerhardt, there are words even scarier.
"Whenever you hear mandatory required, you start to get a little bit anxious," says Gerhardt.
She's been a nurse for 15 years and has never had a flu shot.
"I feel that everyone should have a choice," says Gerhardt.
She recently learned she doesnt have a choice.
"It was just one day we were told you will receive the flu injection," says Gerhardt.
The New York State Department of Health is ordering tens of thousands of health workers be immunized against seasonal and swine flu.
"As a parent, as a doctor, as a public health professional please get your vaccine," New York State Commissioner of Health Dr. Richard Daines asked during a news conference last week.
The commissioner says refusal to be immunized against H1N1 could increase the spread of the virus and stress and already overwhelmed medical system. He says when a vaccine is approved, there's no reason to believe it won't be safe.
"It goes through that same system and the testing so I'll have every confidence the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control put in it," says Daines.
After her own research, Gerhardt isn't as confident in a potential vaccine.
"It's left a lot of questions for me," she says.
Questions that have left her with one final decision.
"I so strongly don't want a vaccine that I'm not comfortable having injected into my body," says Gerhardt. "If I refuse I can' work in nursing."
It's a choice she wishes she didn't have to make.
"This is just so surreal right now," says Gerhardt. "I don't know what I will do."
Gerhardt says she's never had the flu and practices simple preventative measures like hand washing and simple sanitation techniques. She believes that's even more effective.
She realizes she could lose her job for speaking out, but says it's important since she knows others.
By: Casey J. Bortnick
rochester.ynn.com - Rochester 24 Hour Local News
27th September 2009
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In August, the New York State Department of Health released new guidelines requiring tens of thousands of health care workers to get the seasonal flu shot, and the H1N1 or swine flu vaccine when it comes out. At the time it got little attention. Less than a month later a local nurse who decided to challenge the regulation. Now she's taking her fight directly to Albany.
"There's anger, frustration, and sadness," said Debi Gerhardt of Walworth.
After 15 years in nursing Gerhardt's employers gave her a choice: get a flu shot or lose your job.
"I still stand firm that I'm not going to get the injection," Gerhardt said.
Now she how hopes to convince others.
"The nurses who have come to me have said thank you for speaking on my behalf I feel the same way," Gerhardt said.
Not every nurse thinks a mandatory flu shot is a bad idea. Registered Nurse Elizabeth Scarcella says health care workers have a responsibility to stay healthy.
"It can have a huge impact on units when staff are out sick and we don't have enough staff to take care of our patients," said Scarcella.
Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester sent out a memo to its employees last week notifying them of the regulation. In a written statement the hospital said: “New York State has several health status requirements hospital employees must meet annually. For example, each year, the hospital must conduct a physical assessment to ensure employees are fit and healthy. At that point, they are screened for tuberculosis, and an immunization review occurs for the following vaccines: MMR (measles, mumps, rubella), varicella (chicken pox) and tetanus. Vaccines are then given to those who need to come into compliance with New York state mandates.
In August 2009, New York State added influenza vaccines to this list of mandatory requirements for health care personnel. Strong Memorial Hospital must meet such requirements laid out by the state.
The flu can be lethal to chronically ill people or those with weakened immunity – the very people who fill our hospital beds. We’re obligated to protect our patients from risks whenever possible. We fully back the new measure, as the Centers for Disease Control confirms that the vaccine is the number one way to prevent the transmission of the flu virus.”
"Getting the seasonal flu injection does not prevent you from getting the flu. Nor does it prevent you from transmitting it. It's not a hundred percent guaranteed," Gerhardt said.
Gerhardt will be speaking at rally against the mandatory vaccines in Albany Tuesday. She hopes speaking up a second time will make a difference.
"This is something that's being injected into my body in order to keep my job. I don't understand how that's happening. I can't be quiet about it," Gerhardt said.
In an open letter to health care workers New York Health Commissioner, Dr. Richard Daines said, "Questions about safety and claims of personal preference are understandable. Given the outstanding efficacy and safety record of approved influenza vaccines, our overriding concern then, as health care workers, should be the interests of our patients, not our own sensibilities about mandates. On this, the facts are very clear: the welfare of patients is...best served by the very high rates of staff immunity that can only be achieved with mandatory influenza vaccination - not the 40-50% rates of staff immunization historically achieved with even the most vigorous of voluntary programs."
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By TARYN FITSIK
26th September 2009
SARATOGA SPRINGS -- The New York State Department of Health has made the influenza vaccine mandatory for all health care workers who come into contact with patients.
Once the H1N1 vaccine becomes available, it will also be mandated.
However, some local healthcare workers are outraged with the news.
Judy McQueen, has been a registered nurse for 40 years, and currently works part-time at Saratoga Hospital. She says she does not plan on getting either shot, even if it jeopardizes her job.
"We are on a slippery slope, by being mandated and told by our state and our government what we need to do to our bodies, in order to have a job," says McQueen.
However, McQueen says her argument is with the state, not her hospital.
According to the New York State Commissioner of Health, Richard Daines, the welfare of patients, is without any doubt, best served by the very high rates of staff immunity that can "only" be achieved with mandatory influenza vaccination.
But McQueen says she and other healthcare workers constantly take precautions to keep patients safe, and feels getting the shots will compromise her own safety.
"It hasn't been tested enough to know what the ramifications of getting this are," says McQueen.
Also troubling her is what will happen to her job if she refuses to get the vaccines.
According to the state, the health department does not mandate how the mandate is to be enforced, only that it must be enforced.
In an employee forum recently held at Saratoga Hospital, McQueen says she was told if she does not abide by the mandate, she cannot come back to work.
In a statement, Saratoga Hospital says, "We did not mandate this. It came from the state. We are just doing our best to abide by the state mandate. The hospital has not decided as to what will transpire for employees who opt to not have the flu shot. Firing was never mentioned."
However, McQueen says she is not giving up her fight.
"I'm keeping on, because this isn't over yet," says McQueen. "I want to peacefully resolve this."
Link to this article: http://www.wten.com/global/story.asp?s=11201036
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