{"id":43991,"date":"2021-11-01T17:46:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-01T17:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/98-of-ute-mountain-casino-hotel-employees-comply-with-vaccine-mandate\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T09:16:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T09:16:35","slug":"98-of-ute-mountain-casino-hotel-employees-comply-with-vaccine-mandate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/98-of-ute-mountain-casino-hotel-employees-comply-with-vaccine-mandate\/","title":{"rendered":"98% of Ute Mountain Casino Hotel employees comply with vaccine mandate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=8064a722-99dc-4b8d-b851-ff625bbc70e6&#038;function=cover&#038;type=preview&#038;source=false&#038;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" alt=\"Sports books might soon be coming to Ute Mountain Casino and Sky Ute Casino if voters approve Proposition DD on the November ballot.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Sports books might soon be coming to Ute Mountain Casino and Sky Ute Casino if voters approve Proposition DD on the November ballot.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Patrick Armijo\/Durango Herald<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Ute Mountain Casino Hotel reported that 98% of its employees have been   vaccinated with a first or second shot, according to a news release Oct. 28.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a sought-after milestone for Ute Mountain Casino Hotel as we continue to work together as an organization and a community to navigate our way through the pandemic,\u201d said General Manager Rick Scheer. \u201cThe dedication and willingness of our employees to step up and receive the vaccine has made this effort highly successful and we couldn\u2019t be more grateful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The casino has followed federal and state health recommendations throughout the pandemic, including closing, then reopening with expanded COVID-19 and sanitation policies such as training programs, thermal cameras, and a non-smoking policy as part of its mitigation efforts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe vaccine is just another way for us to do our part to help protect ourselves, fight against COVID-19 and hopefully get closer to eradicating it so that we all can move forward,\u201d said Scheer. \u201cWe will continue to align and comply with tribal, federal and state guidelines to ensure our community\u2019s safety and overall well-being.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For more information about Ute Mountain Casino Hotel, please call 1-800-258-8007 or visit utemountaincasino.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>books might soon be coming to Ute Mountain Casino and Sky Ute Casino if voters approve Proposition DD on the November ballot.Patrick Armijo\/Durango Herald The Ute Mountain Casino Hotel reported that 98% of its employees have been vaccinated with a first or second shot, according to a news release Oct. 28. \u201cThis is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43992,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1252],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-43991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-casino-and-gambling"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43991"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85922,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43991\/revisions\/85922"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43991"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=43991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}