Banner Health is requiring employees to be vaccinated, something Arizona's largest private employer required before COVID-19.
Author: Josh Sanders (KPNX)
Updated: 5:18 PM MST July 21, 2021
PHOENIX — Employers requiring workers to be vaccinated is nothing new. In fact, Arizona's largest private employer has required staff to be vaccinated for influenza since 2012.
Banner Health announced on Tuesday that it will require all of its employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19 to stay employed.
Banner required employees receive vaccinations like influenza, measles, chickenpox, tuberculosis and hepatitis B before the pandemic began.
“We have people in very infirmed health at the hospital that’s who your clients are. People who potentially are near death. Exposing them to COVID-19 could be fatal,” said Black.