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Their vaccination rates are nearly twice the average of other nursing homes in Kansas and Missouri. Two local nursing homes now have over 90% staff vaccination.

and last updated 2021-02-26 18:52:03-05 INDEPENDENCE, Mo. — On Friday, Samuel U. Rodgers Health Center vaccinated 98% of the residents living at the Fountains at Green Briar independent living facility. Billie Betts and Peggy Burrus are two sisters living at the facility who received a vaccine. "Well, thank you for this opportunity, I never get to talk, she always does it for me,” Betts said as she laughed and pushed her sister. Burrus followed-up with "That's alright!" The sisters have been facing the pandemic as a pair, even when they couldn’t always physically be together....