Dozens of staff, residents at Yazoo City long-term care facility get COVID-19 vaccine
Dozens receive Pfizer vaccine By C.J. LeMaster | January 12, 2021 at 8:28 PM CST - Updated January 12 at 8:29 PM
YAZOO CITY, Miss. (WLBT) - With each injection, staff members at Martha Coker Green House Homes say theyâre that much closer to knocking out the coronavirus for good.
âI actually chose to get the vaccine for my family number one, and to try for the elders number two and for myself, of course, but to try to get some kind of normal back, and to protect the people that we are around, especially our elders,âsaid Stacye Allen, who serves as the facilityâs life enrichment director.
Non-traditional nursing homes avoid pandemic outbreaks Non-traditional nursing homes avoid pandemic outbreaks (Source: Martha Coker Green House Homes) By Sharie Nicole | December 18, 2020 at 3:45 PM CST - Updated December 22 at 1:49 PM
YAZOO CITY, Miss. (WLBT) - Less than five percent of seniors inside Martha Coker Green House in Yazoo City have contracted COVID-19, the nursing home has reported to health officials.
That’s out of 2,500 seniors nationwide including 200 residents across 12 campuses in Tupelo, Yazoo City, Raymond, and Gulfport, Mississippi.
Independent research finds that the company, Methodist Senior Services, has escaped the grim reality that many seniors are experiencing nationwide.
Since the start of the pandemic, over 100,000 residents and staff at long-term care facilities nationwide have died from the virus, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation.