This Boise nursing home to close after inspectors cite poor-quality care, patient harm John Sowell, The Idaho Statesman
Apr. 22 A Boise nursing home that has provided skilled nursing care and rehabilitation services for 64 years will close next month after a federal agency canceled its contract, citing operating deficiencies that sometimes harmed patients.
Residents and staff of the nonprofit Good Samaritan Society-Boise Village, located off West State Street at 3115 Sycamore Drive, were told Tuesday that the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services had terminated its contract and would no longer reimburse the 127-bed home for services after May 20. We know this is a significant loss for the community and for the residents who call Boise Village home and for the dedicated employees who provide high quality and compassionate care every day, Randy Fitzgerald, executive director of the Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Society, which operates the home, s
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Dec 15, 2020 10:01 AM
The first 3,900 doses of Pfizer’s (Pfizer-BioNTech) COVID-19 vaccine has been delivered to Sanford USD Medical Center in Sioux Falls.
More doses are scheduled to be delivered each week.
Sanford Health front-line health care workers in South Dakota are scheduled to begin receiving the first doses of the vaccine today (Dec. 15, 2020). Sanford is strongly encouraging all eligible health care workers to receive the vaccine.
Sanford has invested in special cold storage facilities and has capacity to store almost 500,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine. Vaccine preparations involve pharmacy, supply chain, clinical operators, research and a number of other areas.