ExemptionsPre-Hire

For campus employees, vaccines are not required but are highly encouraged. To comply with regulations promulgated by Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), UAB Medicine requires COVID-19 vaccination for all employees, students, trainees, and volunteers who provide services in its health care facilities that are regulated by CMS.

Campus

Example of vaccine administration. All employees should make an appointment to receive a safe and effective COVID-19 vaccine (first and second doses). UAB is administering the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, which requires two shots separated by at least 21 days. Vaccines are not required but are highly encouraged.

If you are an employee (including student employees) who does not already have a COVID-19 vaccine record or an approved vaccine exemption on file with UAB, please consider taking the following steps as a voluntary measure, especially if you were vaccinated off-site (e.g., by your private physician, at the Veteran’s Administration (VA) Hospital, or at the Callahan Eye Foundation Hospital):

Upload your documentation: You may submit proof of vaccination to Employee Health.
Request an Exemption: Employees who wish to have an exemption on record with UAB Employee Health are encouraged to request a medical, disability or religious exemption.

Taking these voluntary steps now will help ensure medical, disability or religious exemption requests by our employees are processed in a timely manner and UAB can achieve compliance in the event a federal vaccination mandate were to apply. It also provides UAB’s public health and infectious disease experts important data to guide future decisions about on-campus safety strategies.

We remain encouraged by the high vaccination rates reported among faculty, staff and students and continue to urge others to take advantage of the free vaccines. The protection afforded by the vaccine has been essential in keeping positive case numbers low and avoiding severe disease.

UAB Medicine

To comply with regulations promulgated by Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), UAB Medicine requires COVID-19 vaccination for all employees, students, trainees, and volunteers who provide services in its health care facilities that are regulated by CMS.

UAB Medicine will individually alert covered individuals who are required to be vaccinated but not yet compliant.
Individuals can request a medical, disability or religious exemption through Employee health and/or Student Health Services.