After Losing 70 Residents To COVID-19, Centre Crest Nursing Home Gets Vaccines
Chip Minemyer’s mother, Marjorie, was born in the Bald Eagle Valley. Minemyer said she was sweet and full of life and loved the area. He lost his mother to COVID-19 on Thanksgiving day. “She was 92, a lifelong Centre County resident," Minemyer said. Nationally, about a third of COVID-19 deaths are from nursing and personal care homes. In Pennsylvania, it’s more than half. Marjorie Minemyer had been living at Centre Crest, a nursing home in Centre County, for about a year and a half. Early on in the pandemic, Chip Minemyer could meet with her at a distance — once in the ga...
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