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216-RICR-20-15-8, Requirement for Immunization Against COVID-19 for All Workers in Licensed Health Care Facilities and Other Practicing Health Care Providers (emergency amendment)

Health care worker COVID-19 immunization requirement

Rhode Island Department of Health · Rhode Island (State)

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Jurisdiction
Rhode Island
Level
State
Authority
R.I. Gen. Laws 23-1-1 et seq.; 23-17; 42-35 (emergency rulemaking)
Issued
2021-08-17 Aug. 17, 2021
Effective
2021-08-17 (compliance Oct. 1, 2021); effective to Feb. 10, 2022 as amended (read as 2021-08-17)
End
2022 (read as 2021-09-30)
In force
Aug. 17, 2021 to Sept. 30, 2021
Quarters
2021 Q3
Limitation types
Health care ordersWorkplace rulesVaccination or testing
Addressees
  • all workers in licensed health care facilities; all licensed health care providers including physicians, dentists and nurses in private practice
Functions reached
  • HR
  • WF
  • CL
Collection
Physician Practices and Outpatient Care SEC-02

Operative words

By October 1, 2021, all health care workers and health care providers must be vaccinated, subject to a medical exemption... 'health care provider' means any person licensed by the Department to provide or otherwise lawfully providing health care services (as read on the Secretary of State's regulations site)

Enforcement

R.I. Gen. Laws 23-1-25; licensing discipline

Notes

Reaches private practitioners by licensure.

Retrieval note

Sept. 8, 2021 capture of the regulation page.

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