Vaccine holdouts are just 1.8% of NY’s largest health provider—now they’re fired

Enlarge / A city-operated mobile pharmacy advertises the COVID-19 vaccine in a Brooklyn neighborhood on July 30, 2021, in New York City. (credit: Getty | Spencer Platt)

Northwell Health, the largest health care provider in New York, announced Monday that it fired just a sliver of its staff for failing to comply with the state's COVID-19 vaccination mandate-and there will be no interruptions to patient care at the system's 23 hospitals and over 830 outpatient facilities.

In all, Northwell terminated only 1,400 of its more than 76,000-member workforce-that's roughly 1.8 percent.

"Northwell Health is proud to announce that our workforce-the largest in New York State-is 100 percent vaccinated," the company said in a statement. "This allows us to continue to provide exceptional care at all of our facilities without interruption and remain open and fully operational."

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