With deadlines for health care workers to get coronavirus vaccinations either in the past or quickly approaching, it is clear that only a fraction of those workers across the nation are choosing to risk their jobs by failing to comply.
The consequences employers warned of are becoming reality.
UCHealth System in Colorado fired 119 workers this week; Kaiser Permanente, based in California, has suspended more than 2,200 employees; and 400 workers have resigned from the Henry Ford Health System in Detroit rather than get inoculated. ...
The Henry Ford Health System required its employees to comply with its vaccination requirement by last Friday. The system announced on Tuesday that 99% of its 33,000 employees had been fully vaccinated, were soon to get their second dose or had received medical or religious exemptions.
But about 400 employees have resigned over the requirement, and new hires have already made up for the loss, officials said.
At Henry Ford, Bob Riney, president of health care operations and chief operating officer, said those who had left the company can reapply once they are inoculated. ...
