Maryland Releases Data On Staff Vaccination Rates At Nursing Homes, Rank Best & Worst

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ANNAPOLIS (WJZ) — The Maryland Department of Health released rankings of unit vaccination rates astatine nursing homes astir the state.

“We person made tremendous advancement vaccinating Marylanders who reside and enactment astatine nursing homes and congregate-care facilities, but our enactment is not done,” said MDH Secretary Dennis R. Schrader. “We are grateful for everyone who is vaccinated and it is imperative that facilities promote unit who are inactive unvaccinated to get vaccinated arsenic soon arsenic imaginable to guarantee that they and our aged loved ones they attraction for enactment safe.”

The authorities said 26 of the nursing location facilities didn’t taxable unit COVID-19 vaccination information arsenic required by the state.

“Maryland’s older adults utilize the services of nursing homes not lone for semipermanent care, but often for rehabilitation care.” said Maryland Department of Aging Secretary Rona E. Kramer. “If the nationalist doesn’t person assurance that nursing location oregon semipermanent attraction unit are vaccinated, their choices for attraction enactment volition beryllium limited. Our older adults merit to beryllium comfy accessing each of their attraction options, including the afloat array of services that Maryland’s nursing homes provide.”

Here are MDH’s rankings:

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