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Silver Lake Center, Affiliated with Genesis HealthCare, Among the First Long-Term Care .
Genesis Administrative Services LLCDecember 17, 2020 GMT
KENNETT SQUARE, Pa., Dec. 17, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) A Genesis HealthCare (NYSE:GEN) (Genesis or the Company) affiliated nursing home today became one of the first long-term care facilities in the U.S. to vaccinate frontline healthcare workers against COVID-19. Genesis HealthCare is one of the nation’s largest providers of post-acute care. An event, held outside Silver Lake Center in Dover, Delaware, documented the vaccinations of a Registered Nurse, Kolubah Goniah, Chief Nursing Officer, JoAnne Reifsnyder and the Center’s Executive Director, Warren Burke, and featured remarks by the Mayor of Dover, Robin R. Christiansen.
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At right, Dr. Karyl Rattay, Delaware s public health director, checks out the arrival of COVID-19 vaccination doses on Wednesday. (State of Delaware)
The most crushing toll of the coronavirus pandemic in America has been on those who live in nursing homes, and the situation is no different in Delaware.
COVID-19 has contributed to the deaths of 455 nursing home residents, accounting for 55% of the coronavirus-related deaths in Delaware, state public health records show. Yet residents of those long-term care facilities account for less than 4% of the state’s total case count of nearly 49,000.
So that’s why Delaware’s COVID-19 vaccination program has targeted first staff, and then residents, of nursing homes as part of the first wave of vaccinations.