Quinte Health Care is not changing its mandatory COVID vaccination policy.
The health care corporation issued a statement Thursday following Premier Doug Ford’s announcement a day earlier indicating his government will not implement a province-wide vaccination mandate for hospital employees and will leave it up to individual hospitals to make their own decisions.
QHC is one of several health care organizations across the province that had already enacted its own mandatory vaccine policy.
Last month, it resulted in the termination of 30 employees across the four hospitals who were not going to be fully vaccinated by QHC’s deadline of October 31.