N.C. hospital system fires about 175 workers in mass terminations due to a vaccine mandate

[LetMyPeopleVote]

This is a necessary move

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A North Carolina-based hospital system announced Monday that roughly 175 unvaccinated employees were fired for failing to comply with the organization’s mandatory coronavirus vaccination policy, the latest in a series of health-care dismissals over coronavirus immunization.

Novant Health said last week that 375 unvaccinated workers — across 15 hospitals and 800 clinics — had been suspended for not getting immunized. Unvaccinated employees were given five days to comply.

Novant Health spokeswoman Megan Rivers tweeted Monday that almost 200 of the suspended workers, including those who had submitted approved exemptions, received their first dose by Friday. The hospital confirmed that the rest of the suspended employees who did not comply were fired, although the exact number of those dismissed was not specified.

“We stand by our decision to make the vaccine mandatory as we have a responsibility to protect our patients, visitors and team members, regardless of where they are in our health system,” Novant Health said in a statement. “We couldn’t be prouder of our team members who made the choice to receive the covid-19 vaccine and remain part of our team at Novant Health.”

Rivers told The Washington Post that more than 99 percent of the system’s roughly 35,000 employees have followed the mandatory vaccination program. She said in a statement that Novant Health was “thrilled” those who chose to be vaccinated have given patients and visitors “better protection against COVID-19 regardless of where they are in our health system."

[Pachamama]

1. Good Job

Don’t let Covid hit us on your way out!

[sheshe2]

2. Good.

A healthcare worker that refuses a vaccine is not interested in health of their patients.

Done.

[Hekate]

3. Good jab

[OhioChick]

4. Good....

Find a new career, assholes.

[samplegirl]

5. C/ya

In order to get some type of control laws must be carried out!

[Grokenstein]

6. Feel free to apply for your old job once you're vaccinated like A $@%&ING GROWN UP.

Maybe they'll take pity on you and give you your previous pay scale instead of entry-level, but don't count on i--oh, you're going to sue? Well, GFY then.

[Midnight Writer]

7. You've got to wonder. If they don't believe in vaccines, what else do they reject?

What other kind of treatments do they think are wrong, dangerous, or just plain evil?

Are they telling patients that the doctors are trying to poison them? Are they faithfully dispensing the right meds to patients? Are they following the doctor's treatment plans, or substituting their own remedies they saw on Facebook?

They can't be trusted to care for the people who are at their mercy.

[hatrack]

8. Good. Fuck 'Em.

Let them sling pizza for $12/hour a Chuck E. Cheese.

[leftyladyfrommo]

9. Out of 35,000 employees. nt

[Johnny2X2X]

10. Biden's executive order is working

99.5% vaccinated now.

While this group of 175 probably contains a misguided nurse or two, how much you want to bet that the overwhelming majority of them are not health care professionals. They could be maintenance, cafeteria, or janitorial staff. Even grounds keepers. Hospitals employ all sorts of people that aren't healthcare professionals.

The number of nurses and doctors who refuse to get the Covid vaccine is exceedingly small.

[Tarheel_Dem]

11. Good. The last thing a patient should have to worry about is catching a horrible disease from....

the people who are there to heal.

[NurseJackie]

12. They'll start looking for jobs in nursing homes, corner-clinics, and assisted living environments.