Legal challenges aside, senior living operators advised to keep preparing for OSHA’s COVID-19 vaccine...
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Nov 09, 2021
After a federal appeals court on Saturday temporarily blocked the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s COVID-19 vaccination requirements, senior living advocates say they are encouraging providers...
Town hall aims to push long-term care vaccination levels to 75 percent by July 4
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jun 24, 2021
A virtual town hall on Tuesday focused on answering questions, alleviating concerns and persuading unvaccinated senior living and other long-term care staff members, residents and families to get a COVID-19...
Not here, not us: Internal vaccine campaign allows senior living community’s residents to ‘get their...
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Feb 10, 2021
A few weeks out from the one-year anniversary of one of the earliest clusters of COVID-19 in the country, a Louisiana life plan community operator is looking forward to letting residents “get their lives...
Biden administration could withhold funds from long-term care providers to encourage worker vaccination
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Aug 09, 2021
Biden administration officials are considering withholding funds from long-term-care providers that they say aren’t doing enough to encourage employee vaccinations, according to unnamed sources quoted...
Biden lays out a ‘path out of the pandemic,’ but senior living says it’s a ‘path toward bankruptcy’
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Sep 10, 2021
President Biden late Thursday laid out a six-point COVID-19 action plan to combat the virus and protect the economy, but one senior living association executive called it “a path toward bankruptcy”...
States ending COVID-related pandemic emergency measures
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Oct 19, 2022
Although COVID-19 isn’t quite in the rear view mirror, especially for senior living and other long-term care providers, some states are dropping pandemic-related restrictions that affect providers.
Workplace requirements a strong tool to reduce COVID-19 risk: expert
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jan 12, 2023
Workplace requirements are one of the strongest tools for changing behaviors, especially when it comes to COVID-19 vaccinations and masking, according to a cognitive psychologist who spoke Wednesday during...
Pandemic effects linger, requiring adjustments on visitation, staffing: CEO
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Nov 23, 2021
With its first COVID-19 vaccination booster clinic on the calendar for next week, one Washington, D.C.-based long-term care provider said its staff and residents are lining up after seeing the results...
To mandate or not to mandate? That is the COVID vaccination question for some senior living providers
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Feb 18, 2021
Some senior living operators are instituting mandatory COVID-19 vaccinations for employees, but others are weighing their options.
Industry awaits long-term care-specific guidance as CDC relaxes restrictions for fully vaccinated people
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Mar 09, 2021
Long-term care industry groups said they welcome Monday’s release of interim public health recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on how fully vaccinated individuals...