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The slow process of getting COVID vaccines to homebound seniors
TRENTON – For all the focus on getting senior citizens vaccinated against COVID-19 to secure and reopen nursing homes, homebound seniors have gotten less attention and been slower to inoculate.
Nancy Fitterer, president and chief executive officer of the Home Care and Hospice Association of New Jersey, said home health care agencies are uniquely situated to help, given that their nurses regularly do this work with flu shots.
“When it came to the vaccinations, the Department of Health and I worked really closely in December to try to come up with a plan for homebound, and it never really took shape,” Fitterer said at an Assembly Aging and Senior Services Committee meeting.
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Vaccinations Lag for Home Health Workers
Ruth Caballero, a nurse with The Visiting Nurse Service of New York, puts on personal protective equipment before entering a patient’s apartment in upper Manhattan. Nurses and aides who work in people’s homes are less likely to have received a COVID-19 vaccine than their counterparts who work in other settings.
John Minchillo
The Associated Press
Gaudy Baez-Montero, 41, works full-time in Massachusetts as a personal care aide for an 11-year-old boy with cerebral palsy. She wants to get a COVID-19 vaccine to protect herself and the child, but she’s struggling to get an appointment.