Hospice workers not considered front line workers for COVID-19 vaccine
Hospice Workers Not Prioritized for Vaccine By Francesca Constantini | February 4, 2021 at 7:05 PM EST - Updated February 4 at 7:05 PM
SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) - People who are 65 and older and healthcare workers in Florida have been prioritized for the COVID-19 vaccine. However, hospice workers and in-home healthcare workers are not a part of that group.
Florida has about 20,000 hospice workers, and according to the Florida Hospice and Palliative Care Association, those workers take care of more than 140,000 patients.
“We’re way below hitting 50 percent of colleagues that have been able to receive the vaccine,” said Jonathan Fleece, President and CEO of Tidewell Hospice.
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Bethany Duquette, a clinical nurse liaison with Seasons Hospice & Palliative Care, left, receives a COVID-19 vaccine from Walgreens pharmacist Thuy Luu, on Thursday, Jan. 21, 2021, at Heron House Assisted Living in Largo. [ DOUGLAS R. CLIFFORD | Times ]
Published Jan. 22
LARGO â Kim Gagnon was a bit anxious as she sat down to get her coronavirus vaccination Thursday from a Walgreens pharmacist. But she knew she had to do it.
Gagnon doesnât consider herself worrywart, but sheâs been concerned throughout the pandemic that she could get the coronavirus and pass it on to the patients she cares for as a hospice social worker.
, and experts now urge more Kenyans to consider it.
When Perpetua Ngumi was diagnosed with stage 3B cervical cancer in 2004, she never thought there was any chance she would survive it.
Therefore, even going for radiotherapy, chemotherapy, and black therapy was a waste of time and resources to her. But because her doctor insisted, she had to do it.
“All I was thinking then was death. I had lost hope in everything. I thought I was dying.
Little did I know that everything happens for a reason,” says the 51-year-old.
When she thought everyone was done with her, her doctor at Kenyatta National Hospital proved otherwise.
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