Hospital CEOs: Burnout, Retirements, Not COVID Mandates, Causing Staff Shortages

Hospital CEOs across the state are pushing back on Indiana’s attorney general and his claim that vaccine mandates are to blame for the hospital staffing shortages.

Indiana Hospital Association President Brian Tabor says A-G Todd Rokita is misleading people.

Earlier this month, Rokita said hospitals are facing a staffing crunch because they fired workers who didn’t get their coronavirus shots.

Tabor says hospitals across the state fired just 1% of the workers.

He says many nurses and tech are simply burned-out, or have moved to non-frontline positions.