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Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine said about 60 percent of nursing home staffers who were offered the COVID-19 vaccine have declined, the Ohio Capital Journal reported Jan. 5. 

UNC Health debuted an at-home care program that the Chapel Hill, N.C.-based health system hopes will lower hospitalizations, according to WRAL Tech Wire.

Woodstock (Ga.) Nursing and Rehabilitation Center has rescheduled its first round of vaccines due to a COVID-19 outbreak that's affected dozens of residents and staff, local news station WSB-TV reported Dec. 29. 

Gov. Ned Lamont said an additional $31.2 million will support ongoing COVID-19 response efforts at Connecticut nursing homes, according to a Dec. 30 news release.

  A nurse at Kirkland, Wash.-based Life Care Center — a nursing home known for the first U.S. COVID-19 cluster — received the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine Dec. 28, reports The New York Times.

More than 3 million long-term care facility and nursing home residents could face delays receiving the COVID-19 vaccine as facilities struggle to obtain consent, The Washington Post reports. 

New rules will offer more protection for Illinois nursing home residents subjected to neglect, infection, unauthorized administration of psychotropic drugs and negative consequences of inadequate staffing.

As the U.S. kicks off a historical COVID-19 vaccination campaign, HHS secretary, Alex Azar, said every nursing home resident could be vaccinated by Christmas, reports CBS News.

New York's Department of Health recently approved a closing plan for the Saratoga Center for Rehab and Skilled Nursing Care, a 257-bed long-term care facility in Ballston Spa, N.Y., The Daily Gazette reports. 

The Health Resources and Services Administration will distribute $523 million to more than 9,000 nursing homes that cut COVID-19 cases and related deaths between September and October, according to a Dec. 7 news release from the Trump administration.