PB>>13442010 Bribing, Incentivizing, and Threatening Termination Over Covid Vaccines: Is It Legal?

Houston Methodist hospital has mandated the vaccine for their employees. First they tried the carrot ($500 by a certain date) now the stick - you will be terminated if you arent fully vaccinated, by June 7th. They are having "education" sessions, like people arent getting vaccinated because they dont understand how the vaccine works.

In Texas healthcare workers are not required by the state to be vaccinated but there is a code that states hospitals are required to protect patients from vaccine preventable diseases however, the risk to the patient from the employee must be taken into acct. I am wondering why they are mandatingALLemployees including those that work from home and present no threat to patients in the hospital.

Houston Methodist was the first hospital to mandate flu vaccines. Now that flu cases are almost nonexistent will they continue to mandate the Flu vaccine?

25 Tex. Admin. Code §1.702, which requires each health care facility to develop, implement, and enforce a policy and procedures to protect its patients from vaccine preventable diseases. The policy must, among other things, require covered individuals to receive vaccines for the vaccine preventable disease specified by the facility based on the level of risk the individual presents to patients by the individuals routine and direct exposure to patients, specify the vaccines a covered individual is required to receive based on the level of risk the individual presents to patients by the individuals routine and direct exposure to patients, and include procedures for verifying whether a covered individual has complied with the policy. The policy must include procedures for covered individuals to be exempt from the required vaccines for medical conditions identified as contraindications or precautions by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and may include procedures for exemptions based on reasons of conscience, including a religious belief. 25 Tex. Admin. Code §1.701 defines “health care facility” to include hospitals licensed under Chapter 241 of the Texas Health and Safety Code and hospitals maintained or operated by the state.