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SALEM Blossom Nursing and Rehabilitation residents and staff expect to receive an early Christmas gift Tuesday morning with arrival of the COVID-19 vaccine.
To accept, they just need to bare their arms.
“It’s giving our families and our residents and staff a glimmer of hope,” Megan Schardt, Regional Sales Director of Atrium Living Centers Inc. said Friday.
The nursing home located off of Depot Road in Perry Township is part of the Phase 1A COVID-19 distribution of the vaccine developed by Pfizer Inc. which will be administered through an on-site clinic through Walgreens.
According to Schardt, Blossom is slated to receive 220 vaccines based on approximately 100 residents and 110 staff members. Families have been notified of the delivery of the vaccine on-site beginning with the first clinic at 9 a.m. Tuesday.