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Kansas debate heats up over nursing homes' visitor rules

Kansas debate heats up over long-term care facilities' visitor rules

Kansas urges increase of COVID-19 vaccine at long-term care facilities

Nothing is small about Lakeview Village. Between its roughly 800 residents and another 586 staff members, the number of people on the campus of the Lenexa long-term care facility each day rivals some Kansas counties. That has created problems during the COVID-19 pandemic. The facility had multiple outbreaks over the course of the last year. Meanwhile, staff has been forced to call in sick because of infections on a near-constant basis, said Pam Hermon, Lakeview Village s chief operating officer. Vaccines, however, have changed everything. Nearly 100% of residents and 74% of staff have been vaccinated, putting the facility far ahead of the statewide average. No staff cases have been reported since January, Hermon said, and visitation rules have been relaxed  something which is expected to continue.

A COVID-19 vaccine is finally making its way to Kansas nursing homes

The COVID-19 pandemic has left no stone unturned in spreading its tentacles across the state and rural Phillips County is no exception. The northwest Kansas county, which straddles the Nebraska border, has had one of the higher rates of COVID-19 cases per capita in the state. As of now, that has not impacted Phillips County Retirement Center in Phillipsburg Nate Glendening, the facility s administrator, said they have been able to avoid an outbreak and are looking to keep it that way. A surefire means of keeping the facility s 50 residents and 65 staff members safe is the COVID-19 vaccine, which is expected to begin rolling out to long-term care facilities across the state as early as next week.