Print To the editor: My 98-year-old mother was hospitalized at Providence St. John’s Health Center in Santa Monica recently. The doctors want her to go, short term, to a skilled nursing facility instead of directly home. My mother, reasonably in my opinion, asked to receive a COVID-19 vaccination before being placed in such a facility for all of the obvious reasons. (“California’s vaccine rollout has been too slow, Newsom says, with only 35% of doses administered,” Jan. 4) She was told flat out by several levels of hospital staff that “no patients are getting the vaccine at this time.” I called several of the nursing facilities in the Santa Monica area and all told me that they do not yet have the vaccines but hope to get them in the next few weeks.