Health & Fitness
Banner Health To Mandate COVID-19 Vaccines For Employees
health care provider Banner Health is requiring that its employees be vaccinated no later than Nov. 1. Here's why.
PHOENIX, AZ — Banner Health employees have until Nov. 1 to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19.
That's the summation of the company's policy on the subject, outlining why COVID-19 vaccinations are now mandatory as a condition of employment with one of the largest, secular nonprofit health care systems in the country.
In a company email Tuesday, Banner Health CEO Peter Fine said such vaccinations are crucial, given the patients that health care providers see on a daily basis.
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