Henry Ford Health System temporarily closes 120 inpatient beds because of staffing challenges - Detroit Free Press

That number is less than 10% of Henry Ford Health's total beds, officials said Monday.

They also announced that more than 98% of their 33,000 employees will have complied with the health system's COVID-19 vaccine mandate by having gotten both doses of vaccine; at least their first dose and have scheduled their second, or by having approved medical or religious exemptions.

Adnan Munkarah, executive vice president and chief clinical officer at Henry Ford Health.

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Some 79% of those currently hospitalized with the virus are unvaccinated and another 10.8% are between their first and second doses of vaccine, Munkarah said.

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Bob Riney, the system's COO and president of health care operations, said when the health system became the first in Michigan to announce in June that it would mandate COVID-19 vaccinations for its workers, it had a 68% vaccination rate.

Last week, more than 50 employees of the health system who challenged the vaccine mandate filed a federal lawsuit

workers, including those employed by health care facilities that receive Medicare and Medicaid funding such as Henry Ford Health System