The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- City of Columbus, Ohio (Columbus Public Health workforce) · Columbus · Ohio
- Level
- City
- Authority
- Employer authority of the City of Columbus Board of Health over its employees; Columbus City Health Code
- Issued
- 2021-09-07 Sept. 7, 2021
- Effective
- 2021-09-07 (announced); vaccination or exemption required by Nov. 1, 2021 (read as 2021-09-07)
- End
- Standing employment condition (read as 2021-09-30)
- In force
- Sept. 7, 2021 to Sept. 30, 2021
- Quarters
- 2021 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Workplace rulesVaccination or testing
- Addressees
- all Columbus Public Health employees, many of them frontline health care workers
- Functions reached
- HR/WF (public-health workforce)
- IC infection control
- Collection
- Columbus MET-CMH
Operative words
Columbus Public Health will require all of its employees to be vaccinated by November 1, 2021 with any of the three available COVID-19 vaccines, provide proof of COVID-19 vaccination, or provide an exemption due to medical reasons or sincerely held religious beliefs.
Enforcement
Notes
The release records that 'all four central Ohio hospital systems' had imposed the same requirement (OhioHealth, Mount Carmel, Nationwide Children's, OSU Wexner). Franklin County's Board of Commissioners (proof by Oct. 18, 2021 or twice-weekly testing; 1,400 employees) and the Franklin County Recorder (testing from Sept. 7, 2021) imposed parallel rules (WCMH-TV, Sept. 14, 2021).
Retrieval noteThe agency's own release of the requirement (Sept. 7, 2021).