Greater Cincinnati nursing homes feeling pandemic s financial strain
The future of some Greater Cincinnati nursing homes and care facilities is in question after the Ohio Health Care Association said the industry has lost so much money during the pandemic that they might have to shut down.
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Flipping through photos, Scott Reynolds of Hamilton wonders where his mother, Francene, would have gone if her nursing home shut down.
After surviving a bout with COVID-19 before Thanksgiving last year, she passed away on Jan. 1, 2021, in a local nursing home. They ve got to have a place to go, Reynolds said of Ohio s nursing home residents, and that s why we need to concentrate on keeping these facilities open, because not everybody has the opportunity or the setup to bring a loved one home.
CVS and Walgreens blamed for slow vaccine rollout in nursing homes By Stephen Gandel AARP CEO: Nursing home deaths an unconscionable disaster
CVS on Monday touted its nationwide progress vaccinating residents and workers in long-term care facilities against COVID-19. The drugstore chain announced it has administered its entire batch some 2 million shots of first doses in the nearly 8,000 nursing homes working with CVS.
That milestone is unlikely to allay complaints that CVS and Walgreens, the other major pharmacy chain tapped by the federal government to inoculate vulnerable populations in nursing homes, assisted living centers and other health providers, are falling short. Critics say the vaccine rollout to long-term care residents has been ill-planned and mismanaged, raising the death toll.
CVS & Walgreens Blamed For Slow Vaccine Rollout In Nursing Homes
CVS on Monday touted its nationwide progress vaccinating residents and workers in long-term care facilities against COVID-19. The drugstore chain announced it has administered its entire batch some 2 million shots of first doses in the nearly 8,000 nursing homes working with CVS.
That milestone is unlikely to allay complaints that CVS and Walgreens, the other major pharmacy chain tapped by the federal government to inoculate vulnerable populations in nursing homes, assisted living centers and other health providers, are falling short. Critics say the vaccine rollout to long-term care residents has been ill-planned and mismanaged, raising the death toll.
Credit Hopkins County Schools
More than 969,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been administered to long-term care workers, teachers, and additional frontline health care workers around the Ohio Valley. But a surprising number of workers in some key sectors are hesitant or are refusing to get a shot, including some rural school staff in Kentucky, nursing facility workers in Ohio, and correctional facility employees in West Virginia.
In western Kentucky, some school districts are finding 50% to nearly 70% of school staff are declining the vaccine, for example, and some Ohio nursing facilities struggle to get more than half of the staff to get a shot.