Public Health Order requiring vaccination of personnel of certain entities

The record

Jurisdiction

City and County of Denver, Colorado · Denver · Colorado

Level

City

Authority

D.R.M.C. section 24-16; Mayor's local disaster emergency of Mar. 12, 2020

Issued

2021-08-02 Aug. 2, 2021

Effective

2021-08-02 (effective immediately); full vaccination and ascertainment by Sept. 30, 2021 (read as 2021-08-02)

End

Amended Sept. 1, 2021 (Ex. 025); rescinded Apr. 4, 2022 (DDPHE index) (read as 2021-09-01)

In force

Aug. 2, 2021 to Sept. 1, 2021

Quarters

2021 Q3

2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3

Limitation types

Schools and child careHealth care ordersWorkplace rulesVaccination or testing

Addressees

• the City and County of Denver
• care facilities
• hospitals
• clinical settings
• limited healthcare settings
• shelters for people experiencing homelessness
• correctional facilities
• schools, including post-secondary and higher education
• childcare centers and services
• any entity providing home care to patients
• any entity providing first responder services
• their employees, onsite contractors and volunteers

Functions reached

• HR hiring and credentialing (vaccination as a condition of work)
• WF workforce availability
• IC infection control and staff mandates
• HC in-home visits (home care entities)
• IN instruction (schools and higher education)
• EC child care
• OP administration (records)
• PL placements at client sites (contractors and volunteers)

Collection

Denver MET-DEN

Operative words

this Order hereby requires personnel of the following entities, or types of entities, to be fully vaccinated by September 30, 2021: the City and County of Denver; care facilities; hospitals; clinical settings; limited healthcare settings; shelters for people experiencing homelessness, including day and overnight shelters; correctional facilities, including jails, detention centers and community corrections sites and residences; schools, including post-secondary and higher education; childcare centers and services; any entity providing home care to patients; and any entity providing first responder services. This Order further requires the entities or types of entities listed above to ensure that all personnel are fully vaccinated by September 30, 2021, and to ensure that all personnel hired thereafter are vaccinated. Until a person's vaccination status is ascertained, that person must be treated as not fully vaccinated. Personnel who decline to provide vaccination status must also be treated as unvaccinated. The entities, or types of entities listed above, with the exception of hospitals, must complete their initial ascertainment of full vaccination status for all personnel by September 30, 2021 and must maintain corresponding records that are available to the health authority upon request.... "Personnel" means employees of the entities or types of entities listed above, as well as individuals who provide services onsite and/or in the field to or on behalf of the entities or types of entities listed above on a contractual or volunteer basis.

Enforcement

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