Publication: Mcknight's Senior Living
Home care, hospice and other home-and-community-based service (HCBS) providers are applauding the latest move by the Biden administration to increase COVID-19 vaccinations among homebound seniors.
News and Events
Jun 10, 2021
Jun 2, 2021
Publication: cny.org
Father’s Day came early for Patrick Gorman of ArchCare at Ferncliff Nursing Home and Rehabilitation Center in Rhinebeck.
You might say it was a “Wellcome” family reunion.
Gorman, who is 60, met his 1-year-old granddaughter, Charlotte Paige Wellcome, for the first time in person May 22 when she visited him from Boston, accompanied by her parents, Gorman’s only daughter, Kaitlyn Wellcome, 34, and her husband, Nicholas.
May 14, 2021
Publication: McKnight's Senior Living
Ride-share companies Uber and Lyft are part of the latest effort to get the COVID-19 vaccine into the arms of more people, including homebound seniors.
Earlier this week President Joseph Biden announced a partnership with the two companies that will offer free rides to and from vaccination sites in an effort to get 70% of U.S. adults vaccinated by Independence Day. The program will launch May 24 and run through July 4.
May 8, 2021
Publication: The New York Times
They saw each other and wept.
They held hands and didn't let go.
How to begin to say "I love you" after a year?
Apr 16, 2021
Publication: McKnight's Senior Living
Vaccine hesitancy among staff continues to be a problem with home care agencies and providers of home-and-community-based services (HCBS). But a new report finds that employers of all stripes are “uniquely positioned” to mitigate vaccine hesitancy in a variety of ways.
“There’s a lot of misinformation and still some skepticism that exists,” Parker Wells, Vice President of Santa Ana, CA-based Care To Stay Home, told McKnight’s Home Care Daily.