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.
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.
A list of the 30 largest assisted living companies from the American Health Care Association / National Center for Assisted Living shows Brookdale Senior Living leading the way.
Five Star Senior Living has begun notifying states that it intends to close its skilled nursing units at several long-term care facilities around the country.
Diversified Healthcare Trust will amend its management arrangements with Five Star Senior Living to transition 108 senior living communities, representing approximately 7,500 units, to other operators by the end of 2021. The announcement came Friday as Five Star released a new strategic plan that will see the company exiting the skilled nursing business completely as it shifts its focus to larger senior living communities.
