"This new information shows that holding firm on the vaccine mandate for health care workers is simply the right thing to do to protect our vulnerable family members and loved ones from COVID-19," she said. Kathy Hochul said Tuesday that the numbers of state health care workers getting the COVID-19 vaccine are promising with 92% of hospital staff, 92% of nursing home staff and 89% of adult care facility staff inoculated with at least one vaccine dose. Similarly, Albany Medical Center suspended 204 employees of its over 11,000-member workforce for one week starting Tuesday for not complying with the vaccine, officials said in a press conference Tuesday. MORE: Pilots warn vaccine mandate could cause holiday travel chaos A hospital spokesperson told ABC News that today over 92% of the NYC Health + Hospitals' workforce is in compliance with the state vaccine mandate as of Wednesday. Unvaccinated workers have been placed on unpaid leave but can return once they get their shot. In New York City, about 500 nurses for NYC Health + Hospitals are not at work and have been preemptively replaced. "Regretfully, we have had to exit a few hundred employees, but we are pleased to report that most team members are opting to be vaccinated so as to avoid being terminated," Northwell said in a statement. Northwell, the state’s largest private hospital system with over 76,000 employees, confirmed Thursday that it let go “a few hundred employees” who refused to get vaccinated and now its workforce is “near 100%” vaccinated. In New York, hundreds of staffers have been suspended this week and risk losing their jobs as the statewide vaccine mandate for health workers reached its first dose deadline Monday.
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