Cone Health, Novant Health, Wake Forest Baptist Health are among those requiring employees get vaccinated. Author: Megan Allman (WFMY News 2 Digital), Tom Santaniello Published: 1:29 PM EDT July 22, 2021 Updated: 9:38 PM EDT July 22, 2021
GREENSBORO, N.C. Six major North Carolina hospital groups announced Thursday that all employees must get the COVID-19 vaccine, including the three hospital systems in the Triad - Cone Health, Novant Health and Wake Forest Baptist Health.
Atrium Health, Duke Health and UNC Health hospitals will also require employees to be immunized against COVID-19, according to a release from the North Carolina Healthcare Association.
Hospital officials said this comes as the Delta variant continues to spread and vaccination rates in North Carolina are at a standstill.
The Triadâs three major health-care systems said Thursday they will require all employees to be fully vaccinated as part of a statewide public-health initiative.
Cone Health will be the first to put the mandate into place for its workforce, setting a July 30 deadline.
Novant Health Inc. will require full vaccination of employees by Sept. 15, while Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center and parent company Atrium Health have set an Oct. 31 deadline.
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There will be some exceptions for medical and religious reasons, the systems said.
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Faced with an arena-sized public-relations gaffe, Forsyth County officials quickly decided Thursday to postpone action on plans to build a 50,000-square-foot event center at Tanglewood Park.
People who live in Clemmons West near the park are complaining that they knew nothing of the event center plans until reading about it in Mondayâs Journal, and say an event center that close to their homes will disrupt their lives and spoil their use of the park.
âIt will be very obtrusive and very detrimental to the peace and tranquility we enjoy,â said Robyn Williams, who lives on Maidstone Lane near Tanglewood. âThere is someone from my family walking, biking or running there every single day. I donât go there to walk around a building. I go there to walk around the trees.â
These are strange days for Nathan O. Hatch, the soon-to-be-former president of Wake Forest University.
His Reynolda Hall office has been boxed up. A couple of months ago, he and Julie, his wife, moved out of the presidentâs house where they lived for the past 16 years. A day after commencement, his last as a full-time academic, Hatch turned 75.
For a few more days, Hatch will conduct presidential business from his study in his new home that backs up to Graylyn, the former estate of Bowman Gray that Wake Forest now operates a hotel and conference center.
That ends Wednesday, when Hatch will retire after a remarkable run of 16 years at Wake Forest and 30 more before that at the University of Notre Dame. Susan Wente, now the provost of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, becomes Wake Forestâs 14th president Thursday.
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