Changes to nursing home care slow COVID infection rates
Lara Salahi / Correspondent
Fears of COVID-19 infections in nursing homes may be subsiding as more facilities employ the trifecta of increased staffing, surveillance testing and vaccinations.
Christine Tardiff, chief operations officer and vice president of Clinical Services at Elder Services of the Merrimack Valley and North Shore, says just a year ago, the agency had to field through the heightened fears from families who were reluctant to place their loved ones in a nursing home.
“At the beginning of the pandemic when things spiked in March and May we absolutely saw an increased concern [from families],” said Tardiff. “We were definitely finding and hearing that families did not want their loved ones placed in a nursing home.