MARY ANN GREIER
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Blossom Nursing & Rehabilitation Center co-workers Debbie Leggett, clinical liaison, and Administrator Jack Nordquist demonstrate how residents and their family members and friends can safely give each other hugs through the new hug tent donated by Bob and Linda Sebo.
SALEM The power of touch returned to Blossom Nursing & Rehabilitation Center Friday, in the form of a plastic tent with arms.
The hug tent will enable residents to experience a basic human need they’ve been dreaming about for over a year since COVID-19 came to town the feel of a loved one in their arms.
Alex Kuzior Blossom Nursing & Rehabilitation Center co-workers Debbie Leggett, clinical liaison, and Administrator Jack Nordquist demonstrate how residents and their family members and friends can safely give each other hugs through the new hug tent donated by Bob and Linda Sebo. Starting Monday, hugging visits can be scheduled every 30 minutes by family members at the Salem home off of Depot Road. (Salem News photo by Mary Ann Greier)
SALEM The power of touch returned to Blossom Nursing & Rehabilitation Center Friday, in the form of a plastic tent with arms.
The hug tent will enable residents to experience a basic human need they’ve been dreaming about for over a year since COVID-19 came to town the feel of a loved one in their arms.
Sandy Copestick
SALEM About 100 Blossom Nursing and Rehabilitation staff members and residents stepped up to receive the COVID-19 vaccine Tuesday.
Megan Schardt, Regional Sales Director of Atrium Living Centers Inc., which operates Blossom, said the clinic went well and she knew of no allergic reactions to the Pfizer vaccine.
Plans called for monitoring the recipients the next few days to ensure everything was ok. Schardt had announced the scheduling of the clinic last week, saying it was giving the families, residents and staff member “a glimmer of hope.”
This was the first of three COVID vaccine clinics to be held at Blossom through Walgreens. Walgreens sent eight staff members to administer the vaccines. After receiving the vaccine, each person was taken to another area to be watched for any immediate side effects, a press release said.