“I have completely changed what I believe as a clinician in mandating the vaccine, because unvaccinated people, staff or visitors are really the only vector that’s going to expose residents to the virus again,” said Michael Wasserman, M.D.
Sabra Health Care REIT plans to exit a joint venture with private equity firm TPG Real Estate through which it has a 49% stake in a portfolio of 158 Enlivant senior living communities, the Irvine, CA-based company announced late Wednesday.
At least two more senior living and care companies have joined the growing COVID-19 staff vaccination mandate movement in the long-term care industry. Episcopal Retirement Services, based in Cincinnati, and LCS, based in Des Moines, IA, announced last week deadlines by which staff members will need to be fully vaccinated.
A growing number of professional associations are calling for COVID-19 vaccination requirements for healthcare workers, but at least one major organization is pumping the brakes on calling for an industry-wide mandate for long-term care.
LeadingAge joined 56 other healthcare professional associations Monday in calling for a COVID-19 vaccination requirement for long-term care and other healthcare workers.
The Sioux Falls, SD-based Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Society is the latest senior living and care organization — and one of the largest yet — to mandate COVID-19 vaccination as a condition of employment.
The three largest for-profit senior living providers — Brookdale Senior Living, LCS and Holiday Retirement — remained unchanged from 2020 in the 2021 Argentum & Lument Largest Providers Report, which includes 150 companies. Argentum released the new list on Wednesday.
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 vaccine to help meet a self-imposed goal of a 75% vaccination rate for workers in the industry by July 4.
Pittsburgh-based IntegraCare has reached a 100% vaccination rate among staff members at its 13 senior living communities in three states.
Enlivant announced Friday that 90% of its workers and residents have been vaccinated against COVID-19 through its “Together We Can Do It” campaign.
