DOWNERS GROVE, Sick. (AP) — About 440 staff at Advocate Aurora Well being have both left the well being care firm or have been fired for not complying with a vaccine mandate, the hospital group stated Thursday.
The affected employees who signify 0.6% of Advocate Aurora’s workforce, “weren’t in compliance and have parted methods with the group,” the group stated in a press release.
“With about 99% of our workforce members compliant or within the technique of turning into compliant with our vaccine coverage, we’re defending the well being and security of our sufferers, communities and one another,” the assertion learn.
About half of the 440 staff weren’t full-time staff and had been scheduled on an “as-needed foundation,” the group stated.
Advocate Aurora Well being represents 26 hospitals and 500 care websites in Illinois and Wisconsin.
The deadline to adjust to the mandate was Friday and employees initially got a three-day suspension to have one final likelihood to conform, the corporate stated.
The corporate announced in August that it could require staff to be absolutely vaccinated by Oct. 15, with restricted exceptions for particular non secular or medical causes. The requirement utilized to the corporate’s 75,000 workforce members throughout Illinois and Wisconsin, together with distant employees and those that don’t straight work with sufferers.
