The Texas Health Care Association recently conducted a survey and found that a large portion of the assisted living and nursing home facilities in the state of Texas were understaffed. What were the key pieces of data that they found during this survey? [Read more…]
The COVID-19 pandemic has turned the lives of many upside down over the past year. Residents of assisted living communities have been impacted disproprotionately; both directly by the COVID-19 virus and indirectly through social isolation. Now, with a light at the end of the tunnel in the form of vaccinations, many people have questions. [Read more…]
Pfizer’s initial doses of the vaccine were shipped via UPS, and FedEx to 23 sites in four major Texas cities. Methodist Dallas Medical Center was the first DFW hospital to receive the vaccine and have already vaccination over 5,850 employees. [Read more…]
The biggest challenge for most families, all of us really, is weighing the risk of infection with the consequences of prolonged isolation. I work in the senior care and housing industry but am fortunate to not have a loved one calling a senior living facility home during a worldwide pandemic. [Read more…]
In March of 2020, when the government and CDC suggested that COVID-19 would impact every person through May or June, most Americans could not imagine such a thought. [Read more…]