Prevea Health to Require Staff to Vaccinate Against COVID-19

Saturday, August 7th, 2021 -- 6:48 AM

Prevea Health has announced it will require all staff to be vaccinated against COVID-19 by early October.

Prevea joins Advocate Aurora Health in the requirement. Advocate Aurora announced earlier on Wednesday that it will require employees to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19 by Oct. 15. This applies to 75,000 employees in Advocate Aurora’s system in Illinois and Wisconsin. Meanwhile, officials at Prevea announced Wednesday afternoon that all of their staff must be fully vaccinated, or complete an exemption process by October 5. Prevea has more than 100 locations across Wisconsin across Wisconsin, and employs more than 2,000 people. In addition to the vaccine requirement, Prevea has a face mask requirement for everyone who is at least 2 years old at all of their health centers across the state.

As of August 4, in a statement to Action 2 News, it was shared that “HSHS hospitals in Wisconsin do not require employees to be vaccinated for COVID-19, but continue to highly encourage it and are evaluating the option.” That includes both St. Mary’s Hospital Medical Center and St. Vincent Hospital Home Health. Advocate Aurora’s decision comes as other health care providers and organizations implement similar vaccination requirements for staff and amid the spread of the highly-contagious Delta variant. Advocate Aurora says inpatient COVID-19 hospitalizations have “increased five-fold” over the past three weeks. They’re experiencing positive case numbers not seen since January. (WBAY)

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