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Missouri ranks 50th in the nation in hours of care nursing home residents receive from workers each day. Advocates for nursing home residents say the Biden administration's plans to call for increased staffing could help residents.
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The problem of inadequate staffing at nursing homes predates the pandemic, and it’s gotten worse.
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After residents of Nevada, Missouri — a city of nearly 8,300 people near the Kansas border — learned that Barone Alzheimer's Care Center would be closing due to financial hardship, they started organizing in protest.
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Just 57% of Missouri nursing home staff are vaccinated as of Thursday. Long-term care facility trade groups have warned of an exodus of staff if vaccines are mandated, but some nursing homes that instituted mandates haven’t seen that happen.
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A federal mandate will soon require all U.S. nursing homes to vaccinate their workers or risk losing government funding. But some worry vaccine mandates will worsen staff shortages.
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On average, about 62% of Johnson County employees who work in federally-licensed nursing homes and long-term care facilities are vaccinated.
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Advocates for nursing home residents and union representatives say President Joe Biden's order that nursing homes require employees to get the COVID-19 vaccine will help keep the coronavirus from spreading.
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After the FDA granted full approval to the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, at least one hospital system in Missouri announced it would mandate the shots for employees. Just over half of Missouri adults are fully vaccinated.
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This spring, Missouri nursing homes reported COVID cases in the teens and 20s each week. In the last week of July, the virus was confirmed among 123 residents.
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The agreement promises services that could help hundreds of people leave nursing homes and live on their own.
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Missouri’s vaccination rate for nursing home staff is among the lowest in the nation, ahead of only Florida and Louisiana.
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Some advocates worry the proposal will prevent nursing home residents from holding facilities legally responsible for abuse and neglect.