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Two Maine health systems have seen a few of their employees quit because of the state's COVID-19 vaccination mandate. 

As hospitals continue to face staffing challenges amid the COVID-19 pandemic, they are simultaneously competing with other hospitals for workers while trying to retain their own.

Healthcare workers who are not vaccinated against COVID-19 by Rhode Island's Oct. 1 deadline will be allowed to work beyond that date to prevent care quality from slipping, the state health department said Sept. 21. 

Yale New Haven (Conn.) Health said about 700 of its employees remain unvaccinated against COVID-19 and could eventually face termination if they fail to meet the system's vaccination requirement, according to The Register Citizen.

About 60 employees have resigned from their jobs at UNC Health, citing the Chapel Hill, N.C.-based system's vaccination requirement, system spokesperson Alan Wolf confirmed to Becker's.

Winston-Salem, N.C.-based Novant Health has placed workers on an unpaid five-day suspension for not complying with the system's mandatory COVID-19 vaccination program, according to a Sept. 21 news release.

Syracuse, N.Y.-based St. Joseph's Health is giving back COVID-19 vaccination religious exemptions to workers after a federal court granted a temporary restraining order related to the state's vaccine mandate, according to a memo to staff from Leslie Paul Luke, the…

Nurses are leaving hospital settings or the profession amid extreme and sustained demands of caring for unvaccinated, hospitalized patients during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new American Association of Critical-Care Nurses survey. 

CVS Health is looking to quickly fill 25,000 clinical and retail jobs during a one-day virtual career event this month, according to a Sept. 20 news release.

Some Kentucky health systems have fired employees who did not comply with their workplace's COVID-19 vaccination requirement, according to the Lexington Herald-Leader.