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Posted on 08/12/2021 10:17:51 AM PDT by lightman
Pennsylvania on Thursday announced a goal of vaccinating 80% of nursing home staff by Oct. 1. It also announced additional steps to spur vaccination, including launching a new dashboard that will allow the public to see staff vaccination levels at every home.
“If you don’t like what you see, contact the facility and encourage them to take the necessary steps to increase staff vaccination rates to keep COVID-19 out,” said Keara Klinepeter, the state health department’s executive deputy secretary.
Pennsylvania has about 700 skilled nursing homes. As it stands, only 60% of staff are vaccinated, Klinepeter said. She further said only 13% have attained 80% or more vaccinated, calling it “embarrassing and, quite frankly, very frightening to residents and their loved ones.”
Pennsylvania earlier this week said it will require vaccination of employees of state-owned health care facilities or regular testing of those who choose to remain unvaccinated.
Asked why the state didn’t impose such a mandate on the nursing homes, which are privately owned, Klinepeter said the state believes a more collaborative approach will work best. She called the plan announced Thursday a first step and didn’t rule out a mandate if the goal isn’t met.
Also, homes that don’t meet the 80% mark by Oct. 1 will have to test more staff often, at intervals decided by the health department, and will receive no government funding for the testing.
Homes that meet the goal will receive funding toward testing, including increased testing that might become necessary because of local outbreaks.
State and nursing home officials on Thursday stressed that it’s critical for nursing home staff to understand that getting vaccinated is the only way to ensure the safety of the people they care for.
The vast majority of Pennsylvania nursing home residents are fully vaccinated.
However, Anne Henry of LeadingAgePA, which represents non-profit nursing homes, said homes are seeing a growing number of “breakthrough” infections among fully vaccinated nursing home residents, with the infections likely brought into the facility by unvaccinated staff.
She said her organization is asking homes to require employees to get vaccinated and some have already done so.
The announcement was held at the Bethany Village skilled nursing home in Cumberland County. A Bethany Village official said the facility recently decided to require all employees to be vaccinated. She said the deadline hasn’t been set but will likely arrive by Nov. 1 if not sooner.
At that point, employees must have all required doses and be past the additional two weeks needed for the vaccine to become fully effective. About 75% of Bethany Village employees are presently vaccinated, the official said.
Pennsylvania, as is much of the United States, is seeing a spike in new COVID-19 infections. Its daily average of new infections has surpassed 1,500 after being as low as about 160 on July 7. Hospitalizations and intensive care cases have more than tripled, with the surges attributed to the highly contagious delta variant.
Asked about new outbreaks at nursing homes, Klinepeter said the state has begun receiving requests for extra protective equipment and staff again, likely reflecting outbreaks.
He may be hoping to do a Gerald Ford should Kamelalala be removed for ineligibility.
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Because they BECOME infectious WITH the injection.
Meanwhile in crazy town lost angeles, the city council voted 13-0, yes, THIRTEEN TO ZERO, to impose vax proof in nearly all public places. NOT A SINGLE VOTE IN OPPOSITION!? NOT FRIGGIN’ ONE! Guess they used scwartzenegger as a consultant. So, if one makes their establishment “private/members only” would that work? Of course then they would have to deal with licensing, health inspectors, fire marshall, blah, blah, blah........
In an environment like that, if companies try to mandate vaccination, they run the risk of losing 40% of their staff.
I think mandates should be ignored. Stall. Fiddle with paperwork. Make them fire you. The mandates are not really feasible and I don’t think they will stay around. I think we can wait them out. But, of course, everyone’s economic situation and willingness to take risks differs.
I’ll take “mandates” seriously only if and when securing the southern border is taken seriously.
“Governor Wolf is increasingly taking actions—or more precisely, refraining from actions—in order to make himself appear “moderate” or “centrist” “
I have been noticing that too! Treading very lightly...almost exact opposite from his former edicts when he took cover under NY & NJ edicts.
So far, Wolf has been flying under the radar re the nursing homes criminal scandal. He doesn’t want to become an exposed target. It could interfere with his next career move.
“the city council voted 13-0, yes, THIRTEEN TO ZERO”
Chill. Only the white fag leftard areas like W Hollywood will enforce it. The rest in dtown L.A., the really Fd up areas’ they wont be able to enforce that. Try doing that at a 7-11 and the customer base are people who dont like being told what to do, esp. here in Hollywood.
umm because Gov Woof Woof is facing an election year? Is he still trotting out that gross creature he calls a “health secretary”?
The Nazis are talking mandates for US citizens while the dementia patient and his puppet masters are loading up buses with the infected illegals and shipping them to your town
“umm because Gov Woof Woof is facing an election year? Is he still trotting out that gross creature he calls a “health secretary”?”
Wolf is term-limited. He is done Jan 2023.
Rachael Levine now has a Federal position as Assistant Secy of Health, so...Wolf has a vested interest in protecting “her” as well.
Wolf is a lame duck.
Term limited, he has about 16 months to go.
I volunteered at the VA Tuesday. I was the “lab runner” taking blood and urine from the lab in one building to another lab where they do the actual testing.
The nurses working there all got an email from the Administration telling them they either had to get the vaccine or submit to daily Covid testing.
All four said, “screw that. I will get the testing done day. They are paying for it and I’m not getting the shot.”
They won’t mandate the jab in many of the long term care facilities in KY because they will lose half of the staff they currently have which is understaffed to begin with. The further we go into this covid crap burger the more I am seeing that healthcare administration needs psychological help, they truly are idiots and that doctors in the trenches instead of taking care of their patients are listening to bureaucrats who haven’t seen a patient in 15 years and letting them make their medical calls—frankly I am very disappointed all the way round with the healthcare professions response to covid.
Anyone who thinks that we can eliminate a virus which is “infecting” 40% of the white tailed deer population (in other words, background homeostatic rate) is truly delusional.
the vaccine doesn’t stop you from getting or spreading covid
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