As you may be aware, a regulation issued by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and recently upheld by the Supreme Court, requires that all Medicare and Medicaid certified providers require their staff to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. This mandate also includes individuals who provide care, treatment, or other frequent (more than 1 hour each week) non-health care services for the facility and/or its patients under contract or other arrangements.
As the law currently stands, all Logan Health employees and certain vendors will be required to be fully vaccinated (2 doses of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine or 1 dose of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine) against COVID-19 or have an approved medical or religious exemption. Logan Health is currently relying on each vendor to screen its own employees and exercise its own good faith discretion in granting vaccination exemptions for medical or religious/spiritual reasons. Exemption standards should, at a minimum, comply with the standards set out in the ADA for medical accommodations and the EEOC for religious accommodations. Vendors or their employees should be prepared to provide proof of vaccination (or exemption) if requested by Logan Health.
Because of the CMS regulation, employees of vendors who have not submitted the attestation or received an approved exemption will not be allowed to work on-site as of February 15, or until such time as the attestation is received or exemption is granted by the vendor's company. It is the company’s responsibility to determine who signs the attestation.