Just after passing the one-year anniversary of COVID-19 wreaking havoc within senior living and other sectors in long-term care, providers continue to be challenged trying to increase staff vaccination rates.
As leaders in other industries begin dipping their toes in the COVID-19 vaccination mandate waters, the list of senior living providers that have that requirement is growing.
Enlivant and Sunrise Senior Living will require employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19 as a condition of employment.
Civitas Senior Living is the latest senior living owner and operator to announce a mandatory COVID-19 vaccination policy for employees.
Safety, efficacy and the newness of the COVID-19 vaccine, as well as distrust of the government, were among the major factors that long-term care and other healthcare workers cited as reasons for not receiving a coronavirus vaccine in a recent survey.
Although only a handful of long-term care operators have gone the route of requiring employees to get a COVID-19 vaccine, some state legislators are working to pre-empt those mandates, according to a Washington Post analysis Monday.
At this time a year ago, we still were unsure what the coronavirus would mean for the industry, for the country or for us personally. Now, effects are clear, even if we still don’t know all of the answers.
Argentum’s 2020 Largest Providers Report list increased by 10 this year to include data on 150 senior living providers.
Assisted living communities would be required to report confirmed or suspected cases of COVID-19 to federal, state and local health officials, as well as to residents and their families — and would have one day to do it — under legislation announced by two U.S. senators and one congresswoman. The report on which the bill is based, however, “falls short” and is “misleading,” according to one association representing operators.
A two-month battle with COVID-19 left staff and residents of Cherry Springs Village battered. Now the assisted living community is asking lawmakers not to leave them behind.
