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Walgreens is looking into its COVID-19 vaccine procedures after a temperature control error that will cause patients in five Ohio nursing homes to be revaccinated.
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A shortage of nurses, aides and other staff at nursing homes across Maine is worsening amid a deadly COVID-19 pandemic that has exacerbated the industry’s long-standing workforce challenges in the nation’s oldest state.
“The situation is dire,” said John Orestis, president and CEO of North Country Associates, the state’s largest Maine-based long-term care provider. “North Country, between the homes that it owns and manages, has 26 buildings and I would say a large majority … of them have extremely difficult situations.”
More than one third of nursing homes in Maine reported shortages of both nurses and aides at the beginning of this month, while more than 20 percent were short on other staff, according to reports filed with federal regulators.
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Sarah Tongson (R), director of social services, gives Douglas Smith some hand santizer during a family visit at the Life Care Center of Kirkland on Aug. 24, 2020 in Kirkland, Washington. According to a report by the CDC, at least 37 coronavirus deaths were linked to this facility. Getty Images
Sherry Perry has seen all the horrors of the pandemic. As a certified nursing assistant at a long-term care facility in Lebanon, Tenn., she has held a phone up to a window so a daughter could say goodbye to her dying father. She has watched residents die alone, not understanding why their families didn’t visit them in their final days. Earlier this month, she herself got Covid, suffering fever and chills, and passing out as she struggled to breathe.