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Vaccination rates for COVID-19 among the staff at New Jersey’s long-term care facilities vary widely, but are too low at many facilities to prevent future outbreaks of the disease that has claimed more than 8,020 staff and resident lives so far at such facilities more than one-third of the state’s pandemic deaths. “It appears efforts to provide access and education to long-term care health care providers are falling short of what we had hoped,” said Melissa O’Connor, a professor at Villanova University’s nursing school, whose work focuses on geriatrics. The snapshot of vaccination rates, from data reported by the nursing homes for April 21, underscores the challenges that remain for both long-term care and the public at large in overcoming vaccine hesitancy to reach a level of immunity that will slow and ultimately stop the pandemic’s spread. ....
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By SUSAN K. LIVIO | nj.com | Published: April 23, 2021 Stars and Stripes is making stories on the coronavirus pandemic available free of charge. See more staff and wire stories here. Sign up for our daily coronavirus newsletter here. Please support our journalism with a subscription. ISELIN, N.J. (Tribune News Service) Thanks to a new law requiring nursing homes to increase staffing levels, 78 nurses, aides and other employees will be hired at the three state-run veterans homes, where residents and families say short-staffing contributed to dire conditions and high death counts throughout the pandemic. Interim Adjutant General and Col. Lisa J. Hou announced the new hires at a budget hearing this week, describing it as part of a plan “to enhance current programs or initiate new improvements.not just for FY2022 but looking forward to the years to come.” ....
More staff will be hired at N.J. veterans homes with more than 200 COVID deaths, but residents will have to wait Updated 11:43 AM; Today 8:30 AM Susan Ivanitski, center, holds a photo of her husband who died from COVID-19 while a resident at Menlo Park Veterans Memorial Home. Ivanitski attended the Veterans Day Candlelight Vigil held in Edison. Family members who lost loved ones during the pandemic that decimated the veterans home in Menlo Park attended the service. Wednesday, November 11, 2020. Patti Sapone | NJ Advance Media Facebook Share Thanks to a new law requiring nursing homes to increase staffing levels, 78 nurses, aides and other employees will be hired at the three state-run veterans homes, where residents and families say short-staffing contributed to dire conditions and high death counts throughout the pandemic. ....