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Duke, UNC, other NC hospital systems requiring workers to be vaccinated - WRAL.com

Duke, UNC, other NC hospital systems requiring workers to be vaccinated - WRAL.com

Duke, UNC, other NC hospital systems requiring workers to be vaccinated - WRAL.com
Jul 22, 2021 1 min, 40 secs

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— Major hospital systems across North Carolina, including Durham-based Duke University Health System and Chapel Hill-based UNC Health, announced Thursday that all staff and physicians must be vaccinated to continue working there

The moves come on the heels of the North Carolina Healthcare Association's decision backing mandatory vaccinations for health care workers

The association represents 130 hospitals and health systems statewide

"Protecting patients, visitors and health care personnel from COVID-19 continues to be of paramount importance

Hospital and health system employee vaccination against COVID-19 is vital to safely care for patients by protecting them from infection and to mitigate the spread of the virus within health care facilities and among clinicians, patients and their families and friends," the association said in a statement

Tom Owens, senior vice president of Duke Health and president of Duke University Hospital

About a quarter of Duke Health's more than 22,000 employees remain unvaccinated, a spokeswoman said

"We all commit as health care professionals to do no harm – that is part of our oath

More than 750 people are hospitalized with COVID-19 in North Carolina, with about a quarter of them in intensive care

Owens said the hospital systems view the vaccine mandate as "a call to action" that officials hope will spur more North Carolinians to get vaccinated

Other hospital systems mandating vaccinations for staff include Greensboro-based Cone Health, Winston-Salem-based Novant Health and Wake Forest Baptist Health and Charlotte-based Atrium Health

"A lot of the myths out there like what [the vaccine] is made of or that it messes with your DNA simply isn’t true, and you can’t base your objection on a falsehood you read on the internet," Meier said

Owens said he knows that some Duke Health employees are upset with the mandate, but he is committed to having frank conversations with staff about the vaccines and the need for everyone working in the system's facilities to get their shots

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