A group of just under 100 employees up for termination calculated their combined experience as 960 years — a significant amount of caregiver experience Inova Loudoun Hospital leadership was willing to fire based on rejected or revoked religious exemptions.
Virginia Walker was a new night-shift nurse at Inova emergency room in 2019. Promoted to charge nurse, Walker served as a Covid-19 first responder, receiving multiple awards for her dedication to life-saving care, until her permanent religious exemption to an experimental vaccine was revoked, and she was fired.
Rene Camp was an Inova nurse for 15 years. She served in labor and delivery as a physician assistant IT analyst and software trainer. Like Walker, her “permanent” exemption from the Covid-19 vaccine was rescinded, and she was fired — while working in a remote position.
Beth McKinnon started working at the Loudoun hospital’s emergency room in 1998. In 2019 she was charge nurse, leading the entire ER and managing flow between doctors, emergency medical services, trauma bay, and the waiting room. In 2021, McKinnon was named nurse of the year and preceptor of the year at Inova Loudoun. A year later her religious exemption was denied, and she was fired for refusing the vaccine booster.
Jess Baker was an Inova intensive care unit trauma tech who transferred to the ER as a new nursing graduate. Soon after, she was denied her religious exemption to the vaccine and fired.
Gina Smith served Inova patients for eight years as a surgical scheduler. Leadership rescinded
