The slow process of getting COVID vaccines to homebound seniors TRENTON – For all the focus on getting senior citizens vaccinated against COVID-19 to secure and reopen nursing homes, homebound seniors have gotten less attention and been slower to inoculate. Nancy Fitterer, president and chief executive officer of the Home Care and Hospice Association of New Jersey, said home health care agencies are uniquely situated to help, given that their nurses regularly do this work with flu shots. “When it came to the vaccinations, the Department of Health and I worked really closely in December to try to come up with a plan for homebound, and it never really took shape,” Fitterer said at an Assembly Aging and Senior Services Committee meeting.
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