How to mitigate vaccine hesitancy? Build conviction, offer convenience, report finds
By
Diane Eastabrook
Apr 16, 2021
Vaccine hesitancy among staff continues to be a problem with home care agencies and providers of home-and-community-based services (HCBS).
Trust is most important tool in combating ‘infodemic’ surrounding vaccine confidence, expert says
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jan 25, 2024
At the end of the day, building trust is the most important way that providers can combat the “infodemic” surrounding vaccine confidence, according to one public health expert.
Vaccine mandates not scaring workers away, Sabra CEO says
By
Lois A. Bowers
Nov 05, 2021
Labor issues are slowing the senior living and care industry’s recovery from the coronavirus pandemic, but operators should not spend much time worrying that they will lose workers if they implement...
ACHCA joins in effort to ‘strongly urge’ COVID-19 vaccination in long-term care
By
Lois A. Bowers
Aug 03, 2021
The American College of Health Care Administrators said late Tuesday that it is joining several other long-term care and healthcare-related groups in an effort to “strongly urge the vaccination of all...
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.
White House thrusts long-term care into COVID-19 winter preparedness plans
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Dec 16, 2022
The White House has made long-term care facilities a key element of its focus on preventing a winter surge of COVID-19.
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...
Senior living communities adopt regional approach to staff COVID-19 vaccine mandates
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Sep 20, 2021
Eight Lancaster, PA, senior living communities have banded together in announcing a COVID-19 staff vaccination requirement in the “best interest of everyone in our individual communities, as well as...
Require COVID-19 vaccination of all long-term care workers: Experts reach consensus
By
Alicia Lasek
Jul 14, 2021
The evidence-based verdict from LTC doctors and a range of other specialists: healthcare institutions and facilities — including long-term care facilities — should require that their personnel be vaccinated...
Senior living providers should follow CDC’s new ‘unified’ recommendations for COVID, flu, RSV
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Mar 04, 2024
Senior living providers should follow the updated respiratory virus isolation recommendations issued Friday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, according to provider advocacy organizations.