Albury Wodonga Health estimates about 5 per cent of its NSW employed staff were not vaccinated against COVID-19 by the September 30 public health order deadline.
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The NSW government mandated that health care workers must have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine by the last day of September in order to work, while the Victorian government said health care workers must be vaccinated by October 15.
Albury Wodonga Health chief executive officer Michael Kalimnios said the final count hadn't been confirmed, but of Albury Wodonga Health's roughly 2000 NSW based employees about 100 hadn't been vaccinated.
"I'd be surprised if it's any greater than 100," he said.
"That includes people with medical exemptions and that seems to be the greater number of people who aren't getting vaccinated.
"We do have some staff who have determined that they do not want to get the vaccine, at the moment that looks like a fairly small number of staff."
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Mr Kalimnios said employees unvaccinated on medical grounds may be redeployed, but others refusing to vaccinate would have their employment terminated.
"The NSW Public Health Order is extremely explicit and very strong in this space, that effectively if you haven't been vaccinated, you cannot work [from October 1]," he said.
"Unfortunately the Public Health Order does require that those staff be stood down and they're no longer able to work for Albury Wodonga Health."
Mr Kalimnios said he didn't expect there to be any impact on the health service as a result.
"We are trying to work through very sensitively and collaboratively with people who don't yet have the vaccine just to understand why," he said.
Meanwhile, the Murrumbidgee Local Health District said it was expecting a vaccination rate of about 99.15 per cent, but a "small minority" of employees indicated they wouldn't be vaccinated.
The Health District said it would work with those staff to encourage them to get vaccinated, but if they chose not to, then recruitment to their positions would be prioritised.
The MLHD said the Deniliquin Hospital is the Health District's only facility out of 33 that could be impacted by available workforce due to some staff declining vaccination.
In a statement the MLHD said:
"This may have some short-term impact, but we have planned for this and it will have limited impact on service delivery.
Emergency care, maternity, renal and surgical services will all continue to be provided as usual at Deniliquin Hospital.
Work is underway to redeploy staff and engage agency nurses while recruitment is undertaken, and MLHD will prioritise recruitment to the vacant positions in Deniliquin."
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