{"id":104719,"date":"2021-01-11T15:41:35","date_gmt":"2021-01-11T20:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=104719"},"modified":"2021-02-17T15:41:22","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T20:41:22","slug":"vaccinations-at-gracedale-continue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=104719","title":{"rendered":"Vaccinations at Gracedale Continue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>Residents and employees at Gracedale Nursing Home continue to receive distributions of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine. So far, 32.2% of staff and 57.3% of the residents have received the first dose of the vaccine<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>\u201cThe distribution process is slower than we\u2019d like, but it\u2019s great to see more employees and so many residents getting vaccinated,\u201d says Lamont McClure. \u201cThe sooner we can break the cycle of transmission, the sooner our residents can see their friends and family in-person again.\u201d<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>Additional vaccination distributions at Gracedale are scheduled through February.<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>As of January 9, 2021, 246 personnel at Gracedale have received the first of two inoculations; 202 of those are County employees who are eligible for the $750 incentive.<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0On December 17, 2020, County Council approved Resolution 164-2020 authorizing a $750 incentive for Gracedale employees who get the vaccine. The money comes from residual CARES Act funding to address infection control in nursing homes.<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Information provided to TVL by:<br \/>\nBecky Bartlett<br \/>\nDeputy Director of Administration<br \/>\nNorthampton County Government Center<br \/>\n669 Washington Street<br \/>\nEaston, PA 18042<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.northamptoncounty.org\/\">https:\/\/www.northamptoncounty.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Residents and employees at Gracedale Nursing Home continue to receive distributions of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine. So far, 32.2% of staff and 57.3% of the residents have received the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=104719\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Vaccinations at Gracedale Continue<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94949,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[69,5738,482],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-valley","category-northampton-county","category-press-release-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Gracedale-Nursing.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104719"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=104719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/94949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=104719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=104719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=104719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}