Many pharmacies are waiting until promised doses arrive from the federal government. Author: Galen Ettlin Updated: 5:45 PM PST February 10, 2021
OREGON, USA Despite a federal commitment to send a million COVID-19 vaccine doses to 6,500 pharmacies nationwide this week, many local pharmacies are still unclear about vaccination appointments. Distribution has been shaky at best, NBC News medical correspondent Dr. John Torres told KGW.
Torres hopes the national pharmacy program helps turn that around. However, pharmacies in Oregon and Southwest Washington face some big unknowns.
Albertsons and Safeway are waiting until they receive vaccines to open online appointments. The company said 115 Oregon locations will get about a hundred doses each this week.
Former Marquis at Hope Village employee sues company, administrator February 03 2021
Erica Moreno claims she was retaliated against and forced to resign because of her repeated COVID-19-related safety complaints.
A former housekeeping supervisor for Marquis at Hope Village in Canby claims she consistently reported COVID-19 safety concerns to her superiors and was met with disregard and retaliation.
Now, after at least 17 people have died with COVID-19 in association with outbreaks at the assisted living facility, she s suing Marquis and Hope Village Campus Administrator Pilo Cano for $350,000.
Marquis had little to say about the situation because, according to a spokesperson, the company cannot discuss legal issues.
Major coronavirus outbreak in Canby senior rehab preceded by disregard for safety, lawsuit claims
Updated Jan 20, 2021;
A senior care home employee all but predicted her facility would have a massive coronavirusoutbreak, but her efforts to get managers to act were met with “derision” and she was forced to resign months before her worst fears came true, according to a whistleblower lawsuit filed Wednesday.
A June outbreak at the Canby facility Marquis Hope Village Post-Acute Rehab became Oregon’s second deadliest, with 18 deaths and 113 cases. A separate outbreak on the same long-term care campus has since killed an additional three people and infected 36.
Facilities have to register with the national CDC program to get on the priority list. Author: Galen Ettlin Updated: 10:00 PM PST January 1, 2021
PORTLAND, Ore. COVID-19 vaccinations continue into the new year with more than 44,000 people in Oregon receiving the first dose so far.
Some of those people are living and working in long-term care facilities.
Carol Biskupic Knight is a teacher in Beaverton, whose husband lives in a memory care facility. John Knight was diagnosed with early-onset dementia at age 57.
In order to maintain contact with him, Biskupic Knight has maintained a strict routine over the last nine months, staying isolated. More recently, she has started getting weekly COVID-19 tests.
December 21 2020
Elderly residents of long-term care facilities received vaccine doses this week after health care workers took top priority.
Oregon-based Consonus Pharmacy dispensed the new COVID-19 vaccine to a Portland-area senior living facility Monday, Dec. 21.
Consonus Pharmacy is part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention s Pharmacy Partnership for Long-Term Care Program. The partnership program offers on-site vaccinations to nursing home and assisted living facility residents.
Staff and residents at long-term care facilities were slated to be second in line to receive the first allotments of the new Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, following the inoculation of frontline health care workers.
Elderly residents at care facilities are part of a high-risk population for contracting and dying from the COVID-19 virus.