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WINSTON-SALEM, North Carolina
A North Carolina-based hospital system announced Monday that more than 175 of its employees have been fired for failing to meet its COVID-19 vaccination requirement.
Last week, Novant Health announced that 375 employees had been suspended and had five days to comply with the warrant. The deadline was Friday.
Nearly 200 of those employees have come into compliance, spokeswoman Megan Rivers said in an email on Monday. Rivers did not provide specific figures on how many of the 375 were in compliance and how many lost their jobs.
More than 99% of Novant Health’s more than 35,000 employees are now in compliance with the vaccination mandate, including employees who have submitted an approved religious or medical vaccine exemption, according to a statement. The Winston-Salem-based system includes 15 hospitals, 800 clinics and hundreds of outpatient facilities.
Novant employees who received their first two-dose vaccine, Pfizer or Moderna, have until Oct. 15 to receive the second dose, officials said.
Employees who have an approved vaccine exemption are required to undergo weekly COVID-19 testing, wear N95 masks or other PPE and wear eye protection when working on Novant Health premises, according to the hospital system. Novant Health did not say how many exemptions were granted.
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