https://www.valleydental.com/covid-19-patient-protocol/
Are your providers vaccinated?
As Health Care workers, our providers were one of the first groups to be offered the vaccine. Some of our teams chose to receive the vaccine, while others did not. The choice is up to the providers to decide if they would like to receive the vaccine.
Is the provider that I am seeing vaccinated?
I don’t know. Often, our team members are also our patients. We protect their health information just like we protect your health information.
Why can’t Valley Dental Group require your teams to be vaccinated?
The vaccines that are currently being used have Emergency Use Authorizations. It is unclear if employers can require employees to be vaccinated or not. Typically, there must be a regulatory mandate or legislative action that would allow us to require our team members to be vaccinated. If the status of the vaccine changes, Valley Dental Group will respond appropriately.
I don't know anything or have any sense about the owners' political leanings. Nor that of my hygienist of well over a decade. I have a cleaning appointment on Feb 16 that I'm thinking of bailing out of.
I checked two other Golden Valley dental providers's websites (Bassett Creek and Centennial Lakes) and they had nothing on this subject (whether providers are vaxxed or not).
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