Wednesday, August 19, 2009

State Requires Flu Vaccination for Caregivers

State Requires Flu Vaccination for Caregivers
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/19/health/policy/19swine.html?_r=1

"The State Health Department is requiring tens of thousands of health care workers across the state to be vaccinated for flu, amid fears that swine flu will return in the fall.  The new regulation, quietly adopted as an emergency on Thursday, affects workers at hospitals, in home health care agencies and in hospice care, but, because of a technicality in state law, not in nursing homes."

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