Nursing home gains threatened by lack of vaccine, unvaccinated workers
As COVID-19 cases ebb and long-term care facilities resume in-person visits, concern is growing that these are precarious gains without continued vaccine allocations and fully inoculated staffs.
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Marjan Frank, left, and her sister Hanna stand in their art gallery in Kittery Point on Friday. The two used to visit their mother, Johanna, who is 96, at her long-term care facility every day prior to the pandemic. With visitation restricted, Marjan hasn’t been able to see their mother and Hanna took a job at the facility as an activities aide just so she could see her three days a week.
Nursing home gains threatened by lack of vaccine, unvaccinated workers
As COVID-19 cases ebb and long-term care facilities resume in-person visits, concern is growing that these are precarious gains without continued vaccine allocations and fully inoculated staffs.
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Marjan Frank, left, and her sister Hanna stand in their art gallery in Kittery Point on Friday. The two used to visit their mother, Johanna, who is 96, at her long-term care facility every day prior to the pandemic. With visitation restricted, Marjan hasn’t been able to see their mother and Hanna took a job at the facility as an activities aide just so she could see her three days a week.
Independent Pharmacies Playing Growing Role In Maine Coronavirus Vaccine Rollout
Maine s independent pharmacies are playing a growing role in administering coronavirus vaccines to the residents of long-term care facilities, after a bumpy start to a Trump adminstration program that enlisted two large pharmacy chains CVS and Walgreens to do that same work across the country.
The goal of the partnership with CVS and Walgreens was to make vaccinations easy and efficient for those most vulnerable to the disease. But after it got off to a slow start in Maine, the state CDC even made the decision to divert doses from the two chains to local pharmacies so they could be administered more quickly.
Published January 17. 2021 11:39PM
Associated Press
MAINE
A shortage of nurses, aides and other staff at nursing homes in Maine that already existed before the pandemic is getting worse.
More than one third of the state s nursing homes reported shortages of both nurses and aides at the beginning of this month, and more than 20% were short on other staff, according to reports filed with federal regulators.
“The situation is dire,” John Orestis, president and CEO of North Country Associates, the state’s largest Maine-based long-term care provider, told the Maine Sunday Telegram.
Rick Erb, president and CEO of the Maine Health Care Association, a professional organization representing more than 200 nursing homes, said the staffing shortage comes as no surprise.
‘The Situation Is Dire : Pandemic Worsens Maine s Nursing Shortage More than one third of the state s nursing homes reported shortages of both nurses and aides at the beginning of January
Published January 18, 2021 •
Updated on January 18, 2021 at 9:20 am
NBC Connecticut
A shortage of nurses, aides and other staff at nursing homes in Maine that already existed before the pandemic is getting worse.
More than one third of the state s nursing homes reported shortages of both nurses and aides at the beginning of this month, and more than 20% were short on other staff, according to reports filed with federal regulators.
“The situation is dire,” John Orestis, president and CEO of North Country Associates, the state’s largest Maine-based long-term care provider, told the Maine Sunday Telegram.