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Baystate Health Issues Vaccine Mandate for Employees by HOPE E The Westfield NewsSearch for The Westfield News Westfield350.com The WestfieldNews Serving Westfield, Southwick, and surrounding Hilltowns “TIME IS THE ONLY WEATHER CRITIC WITHOUT TONIGHT AMBITION.” Partly Cloudy. JOHN STEINBECK Low of 55. www.thewestfieldnews.com VOL. 86 NO. 151 $1.00 WEDNESDAY,TUESDAY, JUNE JULY 27, 28, 2017 2021 VOL. 75 cents 90 NO. 178 Baystate Health issues vaccine mandate for employees By HOPE E. TREMBLAY Editor WESTFIELD — Baystate Health system employees – includ- ing Noble Hospital staff – must be fully vaccinated by Oct. 1 according to a letter from President & CEO Mark A. Keroack, MD, MPH. The letter, dated July 26, states that “at Baystate Health our top priority is to protect the health and safety of our patients, team members, and community. It represents the foundation of our organizational mission and has served as the guiding prin- ciple underlying our response to the pandemic. Throughout the past 16 months, you—our team members—have worked tire- lessly to do everything possible to keep our patients and team members safe from COVID-19. You have rigorously adhered to every recommended infection control process and intervention because you understand that we have a duty to our patients to ensure a safe environment in which they receive care.” Swimmers for Westfield High School cheer on their teammates during a past swim meet. (MARC ST. ONGE/THE WESTFIELD Keroack noted that 75 percent of all Baystate Health employ- NEWS) ees are currently vaccinated, which he wrote is the single most effective way to protect our patients, fellow team members, and to ensure a safe workplace. “It is now time for the rest of us to do our part to ensure a safe Pool repair bids exceed $1M budget work- and care environment by getting vaccinated against By AMY PORTER mates of up to $1 million in repairs on pool repairs went back into the city’s COVID-19. To advance this goal, Baystate Health will require Staff Writer the high end, but they wouldn’t know free cash. “We will have to ask the City all employed team members, including those working remotely, WESTFIELD – The school district is the actual prices that were bid until Council to re-appropriate the funds,” clinical staff, contractors, volunteers, students, and those con- planning to go back out to bid for repairs opening them. Czaporowski said. He said originally ducting business within our health system to be fully vaccinated to the pool at the Westfield High School Asked if she was confident the bid they had hoped to have the pool repaired by October 1, 2021,” Keroack wrote to employees. after bids received at the end of June results wouldn’t go above the $350,000 by the start of the swim team season on According to Baystate Health, the rate of COVID-19 infec- came in well over the budgeted $1 mil- in additional funds over the $650,000, Nov. 29. The team has been using a pool tion in the U.S. is rising in all 50 states, including Massachusetts. lion. Barry said she was, because they could at Westfield State University. “Our community is at risk of experiencing a fourth pandemic On June 21, the School Committee make choices on accepting all of a con- “We have to go back to the drawing wave, and cases would be concentrated in unvaccinated indi- voted to approve transfers of $650,000 tract or portions of it. board,” Czaporowski said. “We still viduals and would likely result in more severe illness due to the from funds remaining in 20 different However, when the bids were opened, hope to get it repaired.” spread of the delta variant of COVID-19,” Keroack said. personnel accounts due to unpaid leave, they came in much higher than expected, The pool at the high school is not only The letter tells employees that this would hit western late hires and unfilled positions, to pay said Superintendent Stefan Czaporowski used by the swim team, but is a part of Massachusetts, particularly the greater Springfield area, more than most communities in the Commonwealth. for repairs to the pool. An additional this week. He said they believed there the physical education rotation at the “This would have a disproportionate detrimental impact on transfer of up to $350,000 from person- was an error made in the bidding docu- school. Athletic Director Ryan Dunphy our community and our patients, because western Massachusetts nel accounts to the WHS land and build- ments, and the district was reviewing said swimming takes place during ninth currently has lower vaccination rates than most of the state,” ing capital project account was also them before going back out to bid. grade classes as part of the curriculum. Keroack stated. “The single most effective way to protect our approved. Business manager Shannon “We have to figure out why it was so “This is truly disappointing as we all workplace, each other, and our patients is to get vaccinated.” Barry said the approvals would give her much more,” Czaporowski said, adding hoped to get this project done for the More than 160 million people in the U.S., and more than 1 the ability to transfer anything left over that they had hired a company to devel- swim season,” said City Council Finance billion worldwide, have been vaccinated against COVID-19. to that line item if needed. op the bid for them, but it still came in committee chair and school liaison These vaccines have proven to be very safe and highly effective Barry said at the meeting that the bids $600,000 to $700,000 more than expect- Ralph J. Figy. “If the money did go to at preventing COVID-19 infection, including that caused by the had been received to repair the pool, but ed. free cash, I will do my best to get the delta variant. In the unlikely event of a breakthrough infection, couldn’t be opened until June 28. She Since no bid was accepted, the $1 mil- appropriation passed by the Council the risk of severe disease or death due to COVID-19 is vanish- said the district had received prior esti- lion that the district had set aside for when free cash is certified,” he said. ingly low. Keroack stated that mandatory COVID-19 vaccination of health care personnel has been advocated by numerous national expert organizations, including the Infectious Diseases Society of America, the Society of Healthcare Epidemiology of America, the American Nurses Association, and the American Hospital Jubb appointed to district school committee Association, and it has been adopted by numerous health care By PETER CURRIER series of interview questions by each local youth baseball coach for seven organizations across the country and in our region. Staff Writer member of the School Committee and years and is a former league coordinator. “Additionally, we already mandate vaccinating our workforce SOUTHWICK — The Select Board Select Board. The combined board Jubb said his decision making style is against influenza and several other infectious diseases, such as and the Southwick-Tolland-Granville members took a vote to choose Jubb to address the issues privately within his measles, mumps, and rubella. It is for all these reasons that Regional School Committee voted in a after the interviews were completed. own family and to educate himself using Baystate Health is instituting a mandatory vaccine policy for our joint meeting to appoint Patrick Jubb to Jubb said in his interview that he public resources before he comes out employees.,” he wrote. fill the vacant School Committee seat wants the school district to support a with a public stance. A more detailed plan was promised on Aug. 2 that would for Southwick. student-centered educational structure. The seat was vacated by former com- outline the new policy. Keroack added that this is consistent Jubb was chosen over candidates “I feel that it is important that the mittee member Maria Seddon, who with Baystate Health’s mandatory influenza vaccine policy. Anna Katherine Johnson and Chelsea administration supports a high quality resigned from the board and participated Keroack noted that pregnant employees could request a defer- Berry, who had previously been on the student-centered structure,” said Jubb. in her last meeting June 15. Jubb will ral and ended the letter thanking staff “ for helping us create the School Committee. He said that he has 30 years of experi- finish out her term, which is set to safest care environment possible for our patients and each Each candidate was asked the same ence working for Verizon. He has been a expire in June 2022. other.” As day trips resume, volunteer van drivers are sought for senior center By LORI SZEPELAK reviews the application to ensure the enjoys doing the day trips when he Correspondent person does not have a lot of acci- is driving. SOUTHWICK-As more day trip dents or drunk driving offenses. “My wife usually goes where I opportunities increase across the Additionally, the Southwick Police go,” said Goodwin, adding, “I region, there is a need for more vol- Department reviews the application encourage others to consider driving unteer van drivers for programs and then provides Sullivan with a the van since it is really not that sponsored by the Southwick Senior final report. hard. You just have to use common Center. Sullivan said trips planned this sense when driving.” “You do not need a special license fall include a day at the Foxwoods The Ford van seats 14 and the van to drive the van, but you must be Resort Casino on Sept. 28 and an driver is responsible for taking comfortable to drive,” said Cindy “apple picking day” with a location attendance before travelers board Sullivan, executive director, and date still to be determined.
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