Massachusetts Changes Timeline, Allowing Visiting Nurses To Get COVID-19 Vaccines
Ruth Caballero, a nurse with The Visiting Nurse Service of New York, speaks with a patient s doctor after a home visit as she makes her rounds in upper Manhattan, in this April 23, 2020, file photo.
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Visiting nurses, many of whom are providing care inside the homes of COVID-19 positive patients, will now be able to get vaccinated in Massachusetts.
That s a change in state policy, which had initially excluded visiting nurses from the phase-1 category of COVID-facing healthcare workers who were given first priority for the vaccine. These patients in the home are pretty sick, especially the ones with COVID, said Patricia Joyce, a registered nurse with the VNA Care network. And we see a great deal of COVID patients.