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LOUISVILLE, Ky. Long-term care facilities in Kentucky have seen over 2,000 deaths because of COVID-19, as they have been a hot spot for the coronavirus. With that, the pandemic’s burden has also taken a financial toll on these facilities.
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Friendship Health and Rehab in Oldham County is closing at the end of the month
The long-term and short -term care facility cites COVID-19 as the reason for the closure.
The facility had 107 residents contract COVID-19 and 20 deaths.
They are working with the Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services to relocate residents
“I have never felt so helpless in my life that I cannot help her. I can’t be with her. I can’t go into the facility,” said Robin Tillman about having to move her 81-year-old mother from Friendship Health and Rehab, (FHR) a short-term rehabilitation and long-term care facility located in Pewee Valley in Oldham County.
Louisville Courier Journal
More than nine months after the coronavirus pandemic began, the first people in Kentucky to receive the vaccine were inoculated Monday morning.
A crowd formed at University of Louisville Hospital as health care workers at the facility were the first in the city to receive doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, which shipped from Michigan to Louisville and then across the country Sunday. A separate and similar vaccine from Moderna should be made available later this month.
Five hospital workers were vaccinated on stage Monday morning, but that line will get longer in the weeks and months ahead as the vaccine becomes more available to people in Kentucky and the rest of the nation. Questions about the largest vaccination campaign in U.S. history, though, are not uncommon, and here are answers to a few of the biggest ones:
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