Mandatory Flu Shots at Providence, Alaska Hospital

[indigo girl]

http://www.adn.com/life/health/story/616617.html

Just the employees of the hospital are facing mandatory injections but, if

they were truly serious about protecting the patients then they should be

insisting that all docs seeing patients there be vaccinated also.

Many of us debate whether to get flu vaccines every year, but at Providence

Alaska Medical Center, workers have no choice: The hospital is requiring all

employees to get flu shots by year's end or face dismissal.

[Spring152]

At my hospital, you are required to either receive the flu vaccine or sign a paper saying you refused with all of the possible consequences to patients and co-workers listed. It is one of JCAHO's new "goals" for the year.

[ladytraviler]

As a traveler, I have had this issue pushed on me more than I care to count. I do not get the flu shot by choice and have not had the flu in years. I have told hospitals that state it is a requirement to cancel my contract then cause ain't happening and have never had it cancelled. I believe that it is my body and I have the right to choose what is put in it. I would walk a job before I took a mandatory shot that is not 80% proven to work. I don't do it.