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Local nursing home owner reacts to vaccine mandate

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scott stout
By Maya Skinner

(WSIL) -- as a condition to continue receiving funding for federal Medicare and Medicaid.

manages 11 nursing homes in Southern Illinois. He says he assumed the state would mandate a vaccine requirement and says he's surprised about the nationwide mandate.

He says even before Wednesday's announcement, he had incentives to get his employees vaccinated.

"I'm just a little bit scared of what this is going to do to the staffing in our buildings, where people are not pro-vaccine and are against it and then they take this mandate and will not want to continue to work in long-term care and health care in general," he said.

Stout says his team will meet soon about what to do going forward.

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