A letter to staff from UR Medicine on Tuesday says all employees who deal with patients must get at least their first COVID vaccination by this coming Moday, or be fired.
The letter says the URMC is acting on a letter it received from the New York State Health Department this week. It says the religious exemptions granted to numerous nurses, med techs an other patient-facing employees will no longer allow them to keep working at their current jobs. Those who don’t have a medical exemption will be considered to have voluntarily resigned by the end of the day, Monday.