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CASPER —A bill that would ensure visitation rights for the loved ones of people in hospitals and long term care facilities cleared the Wyoming House on Tuesday and is now moving onto the Senate.
Before the measure passed, however, revisions removed much of its original intent.
An amendment...
Continuing vaccine mandate could hurt health care staffing
By Victoria Eavis
Casper Star-Tribune
Via Wyoming News Exchange
CASPER — A vaccine mandate for health care facilities that receive federal funding will remain in place, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday, a decision that observers...
Cheyenne, Douglas hospitals sued over vaccination policy
By Matt Adelman
Douglas Budget
Via Wyoming News Exchange
DOUGLAS — A group of hospital employees in Douglas and Cheyenne filed a lawsuit Dec. 22 against their respective employers in federal court seeking to halt policies related to Covid...
Douglas hospital revises vaccination policy
DOUGLAS (WNE) — Memorial Hospital of Converse County revised its COVID-19 vaccination policy a third time Monday in light of an ever-shifting national landscape of federal mandates and court injunctions.
While it softens the impact on employees from a...
Cheyenne hospital: Get vaccinated or submit to weekly COVID testing
CHEYENNE (WNE) — Cheyenne Regional Medical Center CEO Tim Thornell told hospital staff Monday night by email they will have to be vaccinated against COVID-19 or be tested weekly to continue working there.
The announcement wasn’t...
Stay on vaccine mandate provides relief for some hospitals
By Kevin Killough, Mark Davis and CJ Baker
Powell Tribune
Via Wyoming News Exchange
POWELL — The Biden administration’s COVID-19 vaccine mandates have had health care workers and their employers on edge in recent weeks, but on Monday, a...
Alexis Barker
NLJ News Editor
The Weston County Health Services board of trustees will review and vote on a vaccine mandate policy on Thursday, Nov. 18, after the release of mandate regulations from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, commonly referred to as CMS.
During a Monday...
To vaccinate or staff? Gillette hospital board fields public concerns over vaccine mandates
By Jake Goodrick
Gillette News Record
Via Wyoming News Exchange
GILLETTE — People came out in droves this week to lament the impending federal vaccine mandates that are expected to affect Campbell County...
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