A mandatory COVID-19 vaccination policy for staff and physicians is coming on September 7th to St. Thomas Elgin General Hospital.
The move is designed to maintain clinical care capacity in the hospital and allow for the re-introduction of services halted in the pandemic, explains Tonya Sheldon, vice-president of Corporate Services at the facility.
For staff and physicians not vaccinated at that time, they will have to test negative prior to coming to work each day.
Sheldon notes that testing is only an option for staff already employed at STEGH.
Sheldon adds as of today, 89.3 per cent of staff and physicians at the hospital have received two doses of vaccine.
Sheldon stresses the Delta variant now accounts for the majority of daily cases in the province and is significantly more transmissible. However, at this time, patients and visitors will not have to be vaccinated to enter the hospital.
