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Nursing homes in North Carolina are dangerously short staffed, impacting resident care

Hiring and retaining nursing home caregivers is a nationwide challenge, but it is particularly acute in North Carolina. The Charlotte Observer looked into this, and we hear from one of their reporters, an advocate for nursing home residents, an ombudsman, and a family member.

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Families plead for restrictions to be loosened in NC nursing homes as COVID-19 numbers decrease

Families plead for restrictions to be loosened in NC nursing homes as COVID-19 numbers decrease
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COVID vaccines still haven t arrived to some NC long term care centers

NC retirement communities claim CDC removed them from vaccine program without notification. Brian Gordon USA TODAY NETWORK For months, Marcia Goldstein of Waynesville thought her 94-year old mother, Maxine Goldstein, would get a COVID-19 vaccine at Bella Vista Gracious Retirement Living, her retirement community in Asheville. Bella Vista’s management did too. But within the past week, both said they were surprised to learn Bella Vista wouldn’t receive any vaccines. “I got desperate, I got frustrated, I got scared for my mother,” Marcia said upon hearing the news. “She’s not a spring chicken.” Marcia and Maxine had been told Bella Vista was part of the CDC Pharmacy Partnership Program for Long-term Care, which has contracted CVS and Walgreens to administer vaccines in long-term care facilities across most states, including North Carolina.

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There s fear out there Not all nursing home staff want to get COVID vaccine

There s fear out there. Not all nursing home staff want to get COVID vaccine Adam Wagner and Josh Shaffer, The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.) Jan. 8 RALEIGH In November, Principle Long Term Care asked the full-time staffers across its 36 state nursing homes whether they felt comfortable taking a COVID-19 vaccine. A stark answer came back: About 25% said yes. The reasons varied, said Lynn Hood, president and CEO of Principle, which operates three long-term centers in the Triangle. But for much of the staff, reluctance dated to the infamous Tuskegee Institute studies, in which Black patients were recruited for a decades-long syphilis experiment without their consent and were never given adequate treatment.

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COVID separated NC man, wife Vaccine could change that

COLUMBUS, N.C. (AP) Being a mathematician and former Fulbright Scholar, Jay Leavitt.

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