PROVIDENCE – A city-based nonprofit that offers hospice, palliative care and home health services is the latest local health care organization to require workers to get the COVID-19 vaccine.
HopeHealth on Thursday announced that all 610 company employees must get vaccines by Sept. 20. The mandate follows similar policies adopted by a number of major health care organizations, including the state’s two largest hospital systems, Lifespan Corp. and Care New England, which issued their own vaccine mandates in July.
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HopeHealth’s policy extends to employees, students, volunteers and contractors. About 80% of its workers are already vaccinated, with the number continuing to rise, the company said.
“We want to provide our patients and their families with the peace of mind that their HopeHealth care team is vaccinated regardless of where they are receiving care – in their home, a nursing home, a hospital or at the Hulitar Hospice Center,” HopeHealth President and CEO Diana Franchitto said in a statement. “Recent increases in transmission rates driven by the highly contagious delta variant are concerning. The COVID-19 vaccine is our best defense in protecting our community.”
In addition to the HopeHealth Hulitar Hospice Center in Providence, the company also offers home nursing and palliative care services across Rhode Island and Massachusetts.
