{"id":36874,"date":"2021-06-24T16:51:22","date_gmt":"2021-06-24T23:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=36874"},"modified":"2021-06-24T16:51:22","modified_gmt":"2021-06-24T23:51:22","slug":"three-of-the-largest-hospital-systems-in-massachusetts-requiring-employees-get-vaccinated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=36874","title":{"rendered":"Three of the largest hospital systems in Massachusetts requiring employees get vaccinated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three of Massachusetts\u2019s largest hospital systems have announced they are requiring their employees to get vaccinated against COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>Mass General Brigham\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/owmmscfgqttdpcptdkwqqdmmqfdntftvvlqgcrntztwrqf_zlwrsspmpkrlmbswpmpd.html?a=&amp;b=40208\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/owmmscfgqttdpcptdkwqqdmmqfdntftvvlqgcrntztwrqf_zlwrsspmpkrlmbswpmpd.html?a%3D%26b%3D40208&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1624662000100000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHWPwJcCjaxV5RPJHgbFDAcysN8aw\">said in a statement<\/a>\u00a0that it is requiring its 80,000 employees to get vaccinated once the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) grants full approval to one of the three vaccines currently in use.<\/p>\n<p>Thus far, more than 85 percent of Mass General\u2019s employees have been vaccinated, the hospital said. The hospital system has administered more than 450,000 vaccine doses to patients and employees.<\/p>\n<p>Likewise, Beth Israel Lahey Health (BILH) announced on Wednesday that it plans to require all physicians and staff to get vaccinated against COVID-19 \u201cas a condition of employment\u201d after at least one of the vaccines gets final approval.<\/p>\n<p>BILH President and CEO Kevin Tabb\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/smslwzjfpbbtgzgbtcmpptllpjthbjbddkpfzshbrbmspb_zlwrsspmpkrlmbswpmpd.html?a=&amp;b=40208\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/smslwzjfpbbtgzgbtcmpptllpjthbjbddkpfzshbrbmspb_zlwrsspmpkrlmbswpmpd.html?a%3D%26b%3D40208&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1624662000100000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHvhdNF42HcgHSTlJWm6nahcfdjFw\">said in a video message<\/a>\u00a0that some employees didn\u2019t feel comfortable getting vaccinated because the vaccines only had emergency authorization.<\/p>\n<p>However, Tabb said he \u201cfully expects\u201d for the vaccines to be fully approved \u201clater this year.&#8221; At that point, inoculations will be mandatory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three of Massachusetts\u2019s largest hospital systems&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36874"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36875,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36874\/revisions\/36875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}