Students in some healthcare training programs treating Medicare and Medicaid patients will be required to be vaccinated after Supreme Court ruling January 14
Yavapai Community College will reopen on Tuesday with in-person classes without any mitigation mandates. It does offer a series of recommendations that it encourages students and staff to follow. (See below)
It is possible that some of its students in its healthcare training programs may be required to be vaccinated. This is particularly true if the students do clinical training in a facility of any kind that participates in the Medicare and Medicaid program. The reason for this is that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced in September its intention to require hospitals, dialysis facilities, ambulatory surgical centers and other facilities to vaccinate their staff as a condition for participating in Medicare and Medicaid.
The mandatory vaccination requirement was challenged in court. Last Friday, January 14, the Supreme Court narrowly upheld the requirement in a 5-4 decision.
