Your IP: Effective October 3, 2022,revised surveillance testing guidance for organizations that operate residential congregate care programs, veterans shelters, and residential schools will go into effect. Many Health Care Workers (HCWs) (e.g., physicians, nurses, emergency medical personnel, dental professionals and students, medical and nursing students, laboratory technicians, hospital volunteers, and administrative staff) are at risk for exposure to and possible transmission of vaccine-preventable diseases. Robinson v. Children's Hospital Boston,U.S. Dist. COVID-19 vaccination for workers From 6 p.m. Monday 31 October 2022, there are no Public Health Directions in effect requiring you to be vaccinated in high risk settings, including: early childhood, primary and secondary education prisons, youth detention centres and watch houses airports residential aged care facilities A new Montana law that prohibits employers from requiring COVID-19 vaccinations has hospital leaders worried, as concerns over hospital staffing and the spread of the delta variant grows. An official website of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, This page, COVID-19 Public Health Guidance and Directives, is, COVID-19 Public Health Guidance and Directives. In addition to the three vaccines currently approved in the U.S. (Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson and Johnson), the agency will recognize as fully vaccinated those staff who received vaccines listed by the World Health Organization for emergency use, butnot yet approved by the Food and Drug Administration. Please find, This guidance replaces guidance issued on. If you would like to continue helping us improve Mass.gov, join our user panel to test new features for the site. Thursday's deadline came after the Supreme Court on January 13 blocked large employers from implementing a vaccine-or-testing policy, but upheld vaccine mandates for healthcare facilities. BOSTON After reviewing scientific and public health records, the Massachusetts Health & Hospital Association has concluded that mandatory vaccination of healthcare workers is in the best interest of patients and healthcare workers public health and safety. The MHA says healthcare workers have been at the forefront of the Commonwealths remarkable COVID-19 response and that COVID-19 vaccinations are the most effective way to prevent it from spreading and helps keep its patients, staff, families, and communities safe. !function(){"use strict";window.addEventListener("message",(function(e){if(void 0!==e.data["datawrapper-height"]){var t=document.querySelectorAll("iframe");for(var a in e.data["datawrapper-height"])for(var r=0;r