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As few as 40 per cent of people working with some of the province s most vulnerable people residents of personal care homes are vaccinated against COVID-19.
As few as 40 per cent of people working with some of the province s most vulnerable people residents of personal care homes are vaccinated against COVID-19.
Care home administrators and the organization that represents many such facilities in the province are trying to persuade Manitoba s vaccine task force to let the same nurses looking after residents give shots to fellow staff members.
Jan Legeros, executive director of the Long Term & Continuing Care Association of Manitoba, said the group is hearing from member facilities that between 40 to 45 per cent of care home staff have been vaccinated.
Personal care homes push for in-house staff vaccinations
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ANALYSIS: The COVID-19 outbreaks in Winnipeg s for-profit and non-profit care homes
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Manitobans died from COVID-19 outbreaks in for-profit personal care homes at a rate higher than in those run by the province or not-for-profit organizations, a CBC News analysis reveals.
Frances Rowlin, seen here with her goddaughter in 2011. Rowlin died at the age of 77 after contracting COVID-19 at Charleswood Care Centre. (Submitted by Dorothy Young)
Manitobans died from COVID-19 outbreaks in for-profit personal care homes at a rate higher than in those run by the province or not-for-profit organizations, a CBC News analysis reveals.
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While for-profit care homes have only one-quarter of the nursing home beds in the province, they account for 44 per cent of care-home deaths.