{"id":161511,"date":"2021-07-26T14:45:52","date_gmt":"2021-07-26T18:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/breaking911.com\/?p=161511"},"modified":"2021-07-26T15:01:11","modified_gmt":"2021-07-26T19:01:11","slug":"breaking-dept-of-veterans-affairs-mandates-all-medical-employees-to-get-covid-19-vaccine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/breaking911.com\/breaking-dept-of-veterans-affairs-mandates-all-medical-employees-to-get-covid-19-vaccine\/","title":{"rendered":"Dept of Veterans Affairs mandates all medical employees get COVID-19 vaccine"},"content":{"rendered":"
Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary Denis McDonough announced he will make COVID-19 vaccines mandatory for Title 38 VA health care personnel \u2014 including physicians, dentists, podiatrists, optometrists, registered nurses, physician assistants, expanded-function dental auxiliaries and chiropractors \u2014 who work in Veterans Health Administration facilities, visit VHA facilities or provide direct care to those VA serves.<\/p>\n
Each employee will have eight weeks to be fully vaccinated.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re mandating vaccines for Title 38 employees because it\u2019s the best way to keep Veterans safe, especially as the Delta variant spreads across the country,\u201d McDonough said. \u201cWhenever a Veteran or VA employee sets foot in a VA facility, they deserve to know that we have done everything in our power to protect them from COVID-19. With this mandate, we can once again make \u2014 and keep \u2014 that fundamental promise.\u201d<\/p>\n
All VA employees are eligible to be vaccinated at no personal expense. Employees will also receive four hours of paid administrative leave after demonstrating they have been vaccinated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary Denis McDonough announced he will make COVID-19 vaccines mandatory for Title 38 VA health care personnel \u2014 including physicians, dentists, podiatrists, optometrists, registered nurses, physician assistants, expanded-function dental auxiliaries and chiropractors \u2014 who work in Veterans Health Administration facilities, visit VHA facilities or provide direct care to those VA serves. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5409,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[1,4533],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\n