InnovAge grows members, centers in latest quarter as ModivCare weathers pandemic with personal care acquisition
By
Liza Berger
May 14, 2021
InnovAge, a new publicly traded company that contracts with Medicare and Medicaid through the Program for All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE), experienced signs of pandemic recovery in the fiscal...
When it comes to combating vaccine hesitancy, it’s ‘science, science, science,’ home care provider...
By
Liza Berger
Mar 25, 2021
Explaining the science behind the development of the COVID-19 vaccinations as well as the community benefit of getting vaccinated helped EvergreenHealth, a home care provider in Washington State, attain...
Increase vaccination uptake with focus on ‘movable middle’: report
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Mar 10, 2021
Senior living operators looking to increase staff COVID-19 vaccine uptake should focus their efforts on the “movable middle” by making vaccination easy, building trust in vaccine safety and offering...
Society needs to weather tripledemic ‘storm’ to build back immunity: expert
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Nov 22, 2022
As media reports of hospitals being pushed to the brink over the tripledemic of RSV, COVID-19 and influenza dominate, one expert said society will need to “get through the storm” before things will...
Peer-to-Peer: Westchester Family Care founder discusses why he is not ready to institute a COVID-19 vaccine...
By
Diane Eastabrook
Jul 22, 2021
Four years after Glenn Lane launched Mamaroneck, NY-based Westchester Family Care, the inconceivable happened: a global pandemic struck.
Now is the time to ‘push hard’ against vaccine hesitancy: senior living expert
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jun 29, 2021
As the senior living and care industry struggles to achieve a self-imposed COVID-19 vaccination rate of 75% for staff members, one association maintains that now is the time to “push hard” against...
Bill would exempt healthcare workers from vaccination mandates
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Feb 15, 2022
Healthcare workers in Tennessee who have religious objections to the COVID-19 vaccine would be exempt from vaccination mandates if Republican-led bill moves forward in the state General Assembly and is...
Long-term care provider cites ‘moral and ethical duty’ to residents in mandating employee coronavirus...
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Apr 05, 2021
As long-term care staff member COVID-19 vaccination rates continue to lag nationally, an Ohio provider is joining a growing industry trend of mandating employee vaccination out of a sense of “moral and...
‘Viral fusion’ fuels extra-potent vaccine for RSV, could be deployed for flu, researchers say
By
Aaron Dorman
Mar 19, 2024
A new “3D vaxlock” process creates a vaccine 11 times more potent than “standard industry comparators,” new research shows.
Home care, get on board the vaccine mandate bus
By
Liza Berger
Jul 30, 2021
To require vaccinations or to not require vaccinations. That, to paraphrase William Shakespeare, is the question.