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Many hospitals require employees to get flu shots
November 13, 2012 12:00 am ? Tribune staff
<ASIDE id=asset-related class="grid_3 right"></ASIDE><!-- AP Content -->More than one-fourth of Wisconsin hospitals require employees to get flu shots, saying that the mandate will help protect workers and patients from the respiratory illness.
Among those is UW Hospital in Madison. ?It makes sense to do whatever we can to implement the one measure we know will reduce hospital-acquired influenza, said Dr. Nasia Safdar, infection control head at the hospital.
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Statewide in Wisconsin, 26 percent of hospitals and 12 percent of nursing homes had mandates, according to the state Department of Health Services.
Another 69 percent of hospitals and 75 percent of nursing homes made workers sign waivers if they didn?t get vaccinated.
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November 13, 2012 12:00 am ? Tribune staff
<ASIDE id=asset-related class="grid_3 right"></ASIDE><!-- AP Content -->More than one-fourth of Wisconsin hospitals require employees to get flu shots, saying that the mandate will help protect workers and patients from the respiratory illness.
Among those is UW Hospital in Madison. ?It makes sense to do whatever we can to implement the one measure we know will reduce hospital-acquired influenza, said Dr. Nasia Safdar, infection control head at the hospital.
...
Statewide in Wisconsin, 26 percent of hospitals and 12 percent of nursing homes had mandates, according to the state Department of Health Services.
Another 69 percent of hospitals and 75 percent of nursing homes made workers sign waivers if they didn?t get vaccinated.
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More...
