Excerpt from the Dayton Daily News
A Wright State medical resident was given a religious exemption for the COVID vaccine requirement after suing both Kettering Health and Wright State, according to documents filed in a civil case in the Southern District Court of Ohio.
Dr. Kyle Bobay, who is in the Wright State University emergency medicine residency program, sued both Kettering Health Network, which initially denied his vaccine exemption, and Wright State, to be allowed to continue his medical education at the beginning of January.
Wright State Boonshoft School of Medicine is responsible for academic and quality oversight for multiple local health systems, including Kettering Health, said WSU spokesman Seth Bauguess. The residents must abide by the health systems’ policies as a condition of their residency.
Bobay’s attorney, Thomas W. Connors of Canton, said Bobay was about to be terminated from the program when a federal judge, Walter Rice, intervened and granted a temporary restraining order. Kettering Health later accepted the exemption, and the case was settled out of court, Connors said.
Bauguess said the suit had since been dismissed because it had been settled out of court. Bobay was never terminated by Wright State University in any capacity, he said.
“Because Kettering reversed their decision and provided him with an exemption, no further action has been taken and the resident has not been dismissed from his residency program,” Bauguess said.
