COVID-19: 51 staff who didn’t attest to being vaccinated laid off at Cambridge, Ont. hospital
Global News
“We do not anticipate any impacts to our patient care and patient services,” CMH spokesperson Stephen Beckhoff told Global News in an email.
A total of 51 people at Cambridge Memorial Hospital are out of a job as of Wednesday after choosing not get vaccinated against COVID-19 or being unwilling to show proof they had done so.
“We do not anticipate any impacts to our patient care and patient services,” CMH spokesperson Stephen Beckhoff told Global News in an email.
He said that 96.8 per cent of staff and physicians at the hospital are fully vaccinated against the virus and will continue to work.
The remainder will be put on unpaid leave Wednesday as the hospital follows a provincial mandate that requires all staff in high-risk settings to be mandated.
Over a month ago, the province’s medical officer of health, Dr. Kieran Moore, issued a directive that all hospitals needed to have a vaccination policy in place by Sept. 7.
On Sept. 1, Waterloo Region & Wellington County hospitals issued a joint announcement which said that staff, physicians, students, volunteers and contractors working in the institutions had until Oct. 12 to be vaccinated or they would be put on unpaid leave.
“Our response throughout the pandemic has been a collaborative approach across our community as we continue to protect our patients and our staff,” CMH CEO Patrick Gaskin stated at the time
“Our new joint vaccination policies are simply one more important step forward that we are taking to achieve this, together.”