As nursing homes wait for COVID-19 vaccines, they face dire staffing, financial challenges
The New Hampshire Veterans Home in Tilton on Thursday, Dec. 3, 2020. Geoff Forester
Published: 12/15/2020 3:33:14 PM
Hope for the end of the pandemic has arrived in New Hampshire as the state begins to distribute more than 12,000 vaccines. Nursing homes in the state, however, are still grappling with the ongoing fallout from outbreaks that have ravaged their facilities and are wondering when their vaccines will arrive.
Many doses in the first wave of vaccines are expected to go to front line workers in long term care facilities. Yet several nursing homes in the Granite State say they’ve been left in the dark about when their staff will receive the shots. Patricia Ramsey, the owner of Edgewood Centre in Portsmouth, said several nursing homes including her own haven’t been contacted to schedule vaccination appointments.
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COVID vaccine arrives in NH, Maine for highest-risk groups
By Karen Dandurant
Seacoast hospitals and nursing homes are expecting their first doses of a COVID-19 vaccine, which began arriving Monday in New Hampshire and Maine, hopeful this development marks the beginning of the end of the COVID-19 pandemic.
New Hampshire officials said the first shipment of the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine was unloaded, processed and prepared for immediate distribution to at-risk health workers, including front line clinical staff providing direct patient care.
“New Hampshire is ready to hit the ground running to do our part in delivering this game-changing vaccine,” Gov. Chris Sununu said in a prepared statement. “It is an all-hands-on-deck effort for one of the most important undertakings in the history of our state. The state stands ready to get to work and distribute this life-saving vaccine to the citizens of our state.”