New York's largest health care provider fires 1,400 unvaccinated workers

Driving the news: The state’s vaccine mandate for health workers went into effect last week.

State of play: Northwell Health said it took a “rapid, aggressive approach” to reach 100% vaccination among its staff, the company said in a statement Monday.

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Doing so would enable them to “provide exceptional care at all of our hospitals, without interruption and enable all our facilities to remain open and fully operational.”

The company employees more than than 76,000 workers, the New York Times reports.

As of Monday, 87% of the state’s 450,000 hospital workers have been vaccinated, according to the latest state data.

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