UpdatedMon, Jan 25, 2021 at 9:34 am ET
Reply At the request of Wilton s health director, a Connecticut Department of Health COVID-19 response team will be assisting onsite beginning Monday. (Shutterstock)
RIDGEFIELD. CT The town Health Department has ordered the School Sisters of Notre Dame property and facilities closed to visitors and the public after 30 residents, in addition to staff, tested positive for the coronavirus.
The property is home to over 70 retired nuns, 15 of whom recently received vaccinations as
allowed under phase 1b, according to a news release from the Office of the First Selectwoman issued Sunday evening. The remaining residents and staff were scheduled to be vaccinated on Jan. 25 by Visiting Nurse and Hospice of Fairfield County.
Nearly half of Wilton retired nun facility tests positive for COVID
Susan Shultz
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At a celebration of 50 years in 2011 at the School Sisters Motherhouse Villa Notre Dame in Wilton. Thirty residents and some staff have tested positive, resulting in the calling in of a COVID-19 response team from the state.Hearst Connecticut Media
The 38-acre property is home to more than 70 retired nuns, 15 of whom recently received vaccinations as allowed under Phase 1B. The remaining residents and staff were scheduled to be vaccinated Monday by Visiting Nurse and Hospice of Fairfield County.
Wilton’s health director has ordered the property and facilities closed to the public and has advised those who was on the property to keep off the grounds.
For Georgia seniors, the COVID-19 vaccine rollout has been rocky at best.
Yet an increasing number of people 65 and older living in the community and in long-term care facilities now are receiving COVID-19 vaccinations.
But what about the elderly who are homebound? Right now, Georgia public health officials are wrestling with that issue.
Many elderly people are unable to travel by car to a facility where they can be vaccinated. Others might be able to go if a ride were available, but they live alone and have no family members to help them
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“I think it’s an unmet need in our community and our state,’’ Dorothy Davis, president and CEO of Visiting Nurse Health System/Hospice Atlanta, an Atlanta-based home health provider, told GHN this week. “It’s not just a Georgia problem.’’
The health director for Wilton has ordered the School Sisters of Notre Dame property and facilities closed to visitors and the public after 30 residents and.
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