Mary Ann Herbst, a patient at the Good Samaritan Society nursing home in Le Mars, Iowa, gets her first COVID-19 vaccine shot on Dec. 29, 2020. A recent study found only 4 out of 10 nursing home residents in the U.S. have gotten at least one dose of the most recent COVID vaccine, which was released last fall.
While the vaccine remains free to patients, clinicians must now bill each person’s insurance company separately. That makes vaccinating an entire nursing home more logistically complicated, said Kumar.Molly Loveland and her daughter, Maya, at a park in Washington, Pennsylvania. Loveland works at a nearby nursing home. Loveland is concerned about catching COVID and bringing it home to her baby after her return to work. Federal data show that just 4 out of 10 nursing home residents in the U.S.
But there are ways to push back against bad information, and states show wide variation in the proportion of nursing home residents who have been recently vaccinated.In some of these nursing homes more than 70% of residents have been vaccinated since early October — at one Sanford facility in Canton, South Dakota, the rate exceeds 90%.But the most crucial factor was that many of Sanford’s nursing home patients are cared for by doctors who are also employed by the health system.
“An appropriate one-on-one conversation with someone who cares about you and has a history of doing so in the past, for us, has resulted in much better numbers than other places have been able to get to nationally,” said Cauwels, who added that Sanford still needs to work on reaching the remaining patients who haven’t gotten the recent COVID shot.
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