The TRO absolutely tried to require this, that at least some of those employees would be required to be available to Thedacare. Ascension pushed this heavily in

The TRO absolutely tried to require this, that at least some of those employees would be required to be available to Thedacare. Ascension pushed this heavily in their response - that this was akin to indentured servitude: resigning from an employer in an at-will state, only to have your employer "compel" you to not leave (be it directly, or through your new employer). There was zero threat to access to medical care (which, still, is not the problem of those employees) - both hospitals shared the same radiologists, and some other staff. The same care was available to patients, just at a different hospital, a mere few miles away (and indeed, there's significant evidence to show that even Thedacare's ability to provide interventional radiology wasn't compromised, in that they did not transfer a single patient out of that hospital for IR care elsewhere in the entire timeframe).