"Amid health system and state COVID-19 vaccination requirements, workers have been fired for noncompliance, and some have resigned or quit.
Here are stats from 20 organizations, announced since June:
Note:
This list was updated Oct. 1.
It is not exhaustive.
1. Upstate University Hospital in Syracuse, N.Y., suspended or fired 113 employees for refusing to get vaccinated by the state's mandate deadline Sept. 27, according to syracuse.com.
2. Thirty-eight unvaccinated employees at San Diego-based Scripps Health will be terminated through their voluntary resignation, based on failure to comply with California's mandate, according to Scripps President and CEO Chris Van Gorder. He told Becker's Scripps will rehire these workers at their full status and seniority if they become vaccination-compliant by Nov. 1.
3. St. Luke's University Health Network, a Bethlehem, Pa.-based system with 17,000 employees, said Sept. 28 that 68 full-time employees and 87 part-time/per diem employees refused to become vaccinated by the organization's Sept. 25 deadline and resigned.
4. Newark, Del.-based ChristianaCare fired about 150 employees, or the equivalent of fewer than 90 full-time employees, for not complying with its vaccination policy, Janice Nevin, MD, president and CEO, wrote in a blog post Sept. 27.
5. Fewer than 250 of New York City-based NewYork-Presbyterian's 48,000 team members failed to comply with the system's mandate and no longer work at the system as of Sept. 23, according to system spokesperson Alexandra Langan.
6. At New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based Northwell Health, about two dozen leaders were not allowed to continue their roles because they chose not to get the COVID-19 vaccine.
7. Winston-Salem, N.C.-based Novant Health fired about 175 employees for not complying with the system's COVID-19 vaccination program after an unpaid five-day suspension.
8. As of Sept. 23, 66 employees had left Brewer-based Northern Light Health because of the vaccination requirement, according to system spokesperson Karen Cashman.
9. As of Sept. 23, 58 of Portland-based MaineHealth's 23,000 staff members had resigned and cited the vaccination requirement as among the reasons for their decision, system spokesperson Caroline Cornish told Becker's.
10. Seventy-two unvaccinated workers were terminated from Winchester, Va.-based Valley Health.
11. About 60 employees resigned from their jobs at UNC Health, citing the Chapel Hill, N.C.-based system's vaccination requirement, system spokesperson Alan Wolf confirmed to Becker's Sept. 21.
12. By the end of the day Sept. 15, the vaccination requirement deadline, Morehead, Ky.-based St. Claire HealthCare had fired 23 employees for noncompliance, hospital spokesperson Amy Riddle confirmed to Becker's.
13. Med Center Health in Bowling Green, Ky., said 180 staff members were terminated because of its vaccination requirement.
14. After a two-week unpaid suspension ending Sept. 14, 125 employees at IU Health left the Indianapolis-based organization after refusing to be vaccinated.
15. Eleven Olean (N.Y.) General Hospital workers resigned because of the state's vaccination mandate, which requires healthcare workers at hospitals and nursing homes to receive their first vaccine dose by Sept. 27.
16. Lewis County Health System, a single-hospital system in Lowville, N.Y., said it would temporarily close its maternity unit after 30 staff resigned over the state's vaccination mandate.
17. Tidelands Health fired one of its employees for not complying with the Georgetown, S.C.-based system's vaccination mandate.
18. Charleston-based Medical University of South Carolina Health fired five of its employees for not complying with its vaccination mandate.
19. West Orange, N.J.-based RWJBarnabas Health fired six workers for not complying with its vaccination mandate.
20. At Houston Methodist, 153 employees either resigned during a two-week suspension period or were terminated for noncompliance with its vaccination mandate.
Sunday, October 3, 2021
"Vaccination-related employee departures at 20 hospitals, health systems"
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