Cleveland Clinic Places Hundreds of Unvaccinated Employees on Unpaid Leave

The Cleveland Clinic announced Friday that around 750 caregivers were placed on unpaid leave for not taking the COVID-19 or providing an approved exemption.

The announcement comes after the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the CMS COVID-19 jab mandate.

Despite the experimental injection failing to stop transmission of COVID-19, unvaccinated healthcare workers get tossed aside for saying no to the medical experiment.

The Cleveland Clinic announced Friday that it placed about 750 caregivers on unpaid leave after they did not get the COVID-19 vaccine or get an approved exemption. https://t.co/ZSe8PnXVwu

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To date, the clinic said 99% of its 65,000+ U.S. employees complied with the CMS rule by either receiving the vaccine or being granted an approved exemption. https://t.co/CvnkfM1tu4

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"As a health system, if we do not comply with the CMS vaccination requirements, this would have a direct and extraordinary impact on our ability to care for patients" https://t.co/JnkZ4SNcbi

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Cleveland Clinic released this statement on Friday:

The COVID-19 vaccination mandate announced by the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) requires all of our U.S. employees and those who provide services with us to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19.  Our deadline for employees and those who provide services with us to receive their first dose of a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine or their one-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine was January 27, 2022, and they must receive their second dose by February 28, 2022.

Employees who have not begun the vaccination process and do not have an approved exemption or an exemption pending, have been placed on an unpaid leave of absence (LOA) beginning today.

We value each of our caregivers and are proud that 99% of our caregivers have complied with the CMS mandate.

As a health system, if we do not comply with the CMS vaccination requirements, this would have a direct and extraordinary impact on our ability to care for patients, including potentially limiting critical health services we can offer.

FOX 8 added:

On Jan. 13, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the COVID-19 vaccine mandate issued by the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare (CMS) is allowed to move forward for healthcare workers in the U.S.

To date, the clinic said 99% of its 65,000+ U.S. employees complied with the CMS rule by either receiving the vaccine or being granted an approved exemption.