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email article A Minnesota arbitrator has decided that Allina Health must reinstate former nurse Cliff Willmeng, RN, but it does not have to issue him back pay. The arbitrator also ruled that the system's United Hospital didn't fail to maintain a safe work environment by dictating nurses use their own scrubs early in the pandemic. Willmeng was fired last May for wearing hospital-issued scrubs instead of his own. A state nursing board case against him was dropped recently, and he still has an active lawsuit against Allina. The arbitration ruling stems from a union grievance raised by the ...

email article Houston Methodist has told all 26,000 employees that they need to get vaccinated against COVID-19 by June 7, or they'll be fired, a spokesperson confirmed to MedPage Today. In phase 1 of its mandate, the health system required management and new employees to get vaccinated. Now, employees, including physicians, will need to get their shots or secure a religious or medical exemption from its human resources department. Those who don't meet the deadline are being placed on a 2-week suspension, followed by termination if they can't meet the vaccine mandate by the suspension'...

President Biden is expected to announce new CDC guidance on outdoor masking on Tuesday. ( CNN) Check back later on MedPage Today for the full story. Meanwhile, some public health experts say fully vaccinated people should continue masking when gathering in public. ( Washington Post) Over the coming months, the U.S. plans to unload all 60 million doses of its AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, assuming they clear a federal safety review. ( AP) As of Tuesday at 8:00 a.m. EDT, the unofficial U.S. COVID-19 toll reached 32,125,549 cases and 572,696 deaths, increases of 48,072 and 496, respectively, si...

email article As the quest to diagnose and treat chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) in the living continues, Boston University's CTE Center will examine the brains of two recently deceased former NFL players, including one who committed a terrible crime. One belonged to Vincent Jackson, 38, who was found dead in a Florida hotel room in February, with no cause yet determined; the other is from Phillip Adams, 32, who shot six people to death last week -- including a well-known local physician, his wife, two grandchildren, and two workers who happened to be in the doctor's house -- ...

email article Following through on a promise made last month, HHS on Thursday formally moved to rescind the Trump administration's "gag rule" that bars clinicians who receive Title X funding from discussing, offering, or referring patients for abortions. Under President Trump, HHS had instituted the rule in February 2019, requiring "clear financial and physical separation between Title X funded projects and programs or facilities where abortion is a method of family planning." That erected a big hurdle for many family planning organizations, including the nation's largest, Planned Paren...