Mandate Gets Vaccine Results in Philadelphia Nursing Homes: The vaccine mandate for Philadelphia healthcare workers has succeeded in prompting 46 of the city’s 47 nursing homes to ensure the full vaccination of all non-exempted staff workers, says a Nov. 6...
Philadelphia to Begin Enforcing Nursing Home Vaccine Mandate: With the deadline come and gone for employees to be vaccinated, Philadelphia will begin enforcing the vaccine mandate for nursing home workers, says a Philadelphia Inquirer article. The Philadelphia...
With hugs for nursing home residents ok again, the guidance will be a boon for the mental and emotional well-being of residents previously isolated due to COVID. New guidance recently released by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) permits vaccinated...
Mistrust And Worry Fuels Vaccine Skepticism: Many Nursing Home Workers Are Rejecting COVID Vaccine An American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) article says that, despite the inclusion of nursing home staff in the top tier for receiving the coronavirus vaccine,...
New Nursing Home Coronavirus Cases Reach Their Lowest Numbers since Data Tracking Began: Deaths in Nursing Homes Drop 80 Percent Following Vaccines Following the rollout of vaccines to American long-term care facilities that began late last year, new COVID cases and...