Hospital To Stop Delivering Babies After Employees Quit Rather Than Get COVID Vaccine

Mary Papenfuss Sun, September 12, 2021, 6:22 AM

A hospital in northern New York will stop delivering babies later this month because too many maternity workers resigned rather than get a mandated COVID-19 vaccine. Seven of 30 employees who resigned from the hospital rather than get a COVID vaccine worked in the maternity department. Twenty-one of them worked in clinical positions, including nurses, therapists and technicians. Services in five other departments may also be curtailed if more staff members decide to leave rather than be vaccinated for COVID-19. The deadline for all healthcare workers in the state to be vaccinated is Sept. 27. Some 165 of the approximately 650 hospital employees remained unvaccinated as of Friday, and have yet to declare what they plan to do.Thirty formerly unvaccinated healthcare workers at the hospital have now had at least one shot.

The health system previously had one of the lowest vaccination rates across the state.

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