Providers tepidly embrace CMS plan to revoke ‘no longer needed’ vax mandate … Pandemic taking toll on RNs’ job satisfaction, mental health, survey finds … Survey reveals reasons behind older...
3 key strategies help boost nursing home staff vax rates, study of 400+ facilities finds
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Alicia Lasek
Nov 12, 2021
Leading LTC geriatricians have teased out the top strategies used by facilities with staff COVID-19 vaccination rates of 75% and higher.
Report: Nearly 80 percent of U.S. workers want employers to encourage or require vax for in-person staff
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Alicia Lasek
Jan 20, 2022
U.S. workers have been rattled by the omicron surge and most are looking to their employer to stay fully engaged in COVID-19 precautions, analysts say.
Nursing home staff vaccinations get a boost thanks to New York mandate; delta ups jabs nationwide
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Alicia Lasek
Sep 29, 2021
By midnight of its Monday deadline, New York state saw vaccination rates rise to 92% among nursing home and hospital workers, according to a new report.
Infection control experts throw support behind healthcare vaccine mandates
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Alicia Lasek
Jul 01, 2021
Voluntary vaccination policies are not a sure path to herd immunity in healthcare facilities, APIC says. The infection control advocate has endorsed vaccine mandates as a condition of employment.
Clinical briefs for Monday, Dec. 12
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Alicia Lasek
Dec 12, 2022
With repeal of Pentagon’s vaccine mandate, will CMS mandate remain a sure thing? … Hospital beds are 80% full nationwide, only 6% due to COVID … AHCA urges nursing homes to get involved in ’game-changing’...
Require COVID-19 vaccination of all healthcare workers, seven clinical groups say
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Alicia Lasek
Jul 14, 2021
Their evidence-based verdict: healthcare institutions and facilities — including long-term care facilities — should require that their personnel be vaccinated as a condition of employment.