New York hospital to stop delivering babies after 30 staffers quit over COIVD-19 vaccine mandate
A hospital in upstate New York will stop delivering babies later this month after 30 staffers quit in protest of the facility’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate.
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Sep 14, 2021, 9:15 AM
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319ds agoA hospital in upstate New York will stop
delivering babies later this month after 30 staffers quit in protest of the facility’s
COVID-19 vaccine mandate.
The Lewis County Health
System CEO says the resignations mean the hospital can't safely staff the maternity
department, beginning Sept. 25.
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The 30 staffers quit two
weeks after the hospital pulled the employees option for religious exemptions. Medical exemptions are still permitted.
All employees remain mandated
to receive the vaccine by Sept. 27.
The COVID-19 positivity rate in Lewis County as of Sept. 14 was 10.99%, according to the CDC.
