New York
The deadline for home health aides to be vaccinated is already here
By 
Editor-in-Chief
New York – Any unvaccinated home health aides would no longer be allowed to work with patients from Friday on.
According to Governor Kathy Hochul the mandate includes anyone working in assisted living homes, hospice care, treatment centers and AIDS home care programs.
Officials say 86% of workers that do home health care have had at least one dose of the vaccine, and 71.3% are fully vaccinated against COVID-19.
One of the largest organizations, Visiting Nurse Service of New York, has a 97% vaccination rate among its staff.
According to representatives for home health care organizations, Hochul should phase in vaccinations and provide emergency funding, because they don’t believe out of state or foreign workers can help the potential staff crisis.
At this time it is unclear if workers will be fired or laid off the same way they were in hospitals.
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