Vaccination Rates Among Long-Term Care Staff During the SARS-COVID-19 Pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic had a profound impact on long-term care facilities, particularly nursing homes and assisted living communities (ALCs), leading to high mortality rates among residents. Vaccination of residents and staff in long-term care mitigated virus spread. However, we know little about vaccine uptake in assisted living compared with the nursing home setting. The purpose of this paper was to compare assisted living staff vaccination rates with similarly collected data on nursing homes soon after the vaccines became available, and to elucidate organizational factors that may have influenced assisted living staff vaccination.