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Advocate Aurora Health Fires 440 Staffers For Failing To Comply With COVID-19 Vaccine Requirement

CHICAGO (CBS) -- Advocate Aurora Health has fired about 440 staffers who were noncompliant with the hospital system's COVID-19 vaccination policy.

In a statement issued Tuesday, the hospital system reported that 99 percent of its staffers are compliant with the requirement to get vaccinated for COVID-19.

But about 440 staffers – amounting to 0.6 percent of the workforce and nearly half of whom were per diem employees – were not in compliance, the hospital system said.

Thus, those employees have been fired.

Advocate Aurora Health is based in Downers Grove and Milwaukee and operates 26 hospitals in Illinois and Wisconsin.

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