Today, residents in nursing homes are getting their first COVID vaccines.
Health care workers have been getting theirs this week.
The Reservoir is a nursing home with seventy-five beds and today, residents here started getting COVID vaccines.
The hope is this will not only save lives, but prevent people from getting sick.
Nursing homes are now joining the fight to stop the spread of COVID.
Staff and residents at The Reservoir in West Hartford are among the first people to be vaccinated.
Jeanne Oeters was ready for her COVID vaccine.
Jeanne is 95 and to mark this historic occasion, she had her hair done and wanted to make sure her sweater matched her face mask.
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COVID vaccine comes to nursing homes, hurt medically and financially
Jeanne Peters, 95, a rehab patient at The Reservoir, a nursing facility, was given the first COVID-19 vaccination in a Connecticut nursing home Friday, Dec. 18, 2020, in West Hartford. Administering the vaccine is Mary Lou Galushko, a CVS pharmacist from North Haven, left. Staff members showered her with confetti after. At rear is Bob Atighechi, a CVS pharmacist from Rocky Hill. (AP Photo/Stephen Dunn)
Genesis HealthCare, the largest publicly traded nursing home company in the United States, invited the press to watch its chief medical officer and others be vaccinated Friday against a novel coronavirus that poses an existential threat to the company.
Distribution of Pfizerâs COVID-19 vaccine to nursing homes is expected to begin statewide Dec. 28, according to the state Department of Health, but officials at Lackawanna County facilities donât expect to receive doses until January.
The vaccine will be administered by pharmacists with CVS and Walgreens, which signed an agreement with the Department of Human Services in October to service all nursing homes and other long term care facilities nationwide.
The state Health Department has not provided nursing homes with information regarding which counties or regions of the state will be first to get the vaccine. That decision is being made by CVS and Walgreens in conjunction with DHS, a spokesperson for the Health Department said.
Published December 18. 2020 8:38PM | Updated December 18. 2020 8:50PM
Mark Pazniokas, The Connecticut Mirror
Genesis HealthCare, the largest publicly traded nursing home company in the United States, invited the news media to watch its chief medical officer and others be vaccinated Friday against a novel coronavirus that poses an existential threat to the company.
The first COVID-19 vaccination at a Connecticut nursing home went to Dr. Richard Feifer. A CVS vaccinator inoculated Feifer as he sat outside The Reservoir in West Hartford, one of the 360 facilities operated in 25 states by the struggling Genesis HealthCare.
“This is all about leadership. The only way out of this pandemic not just for nursing homes, but for society is through mass vaccination,” said Feifer, who is also the executive vice president of Genesis. “And the faster we can get there, the better.”
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