COVID-19 Vaccine

UAB Vaccine Requirement

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.

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Other UAB employees and students

All UAB employees, students, trainees, and volunteers who do not provide services in its health care facilities that are regulated by CMS should make an appointment to receive 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.

Employees (including student employees) who do not already have a COVID-19 vaccine record or an approved vaccine exemption on file with UAB should 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):

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.