'Even though our associate-vaccination rates are increasing, we want them to be even higher,' Brookdale Senior Living CEO Cindy Baier told CNBC on Friday.
, a large operator of assisted living and skilled nursing facilities in the U.S., will require its staff to get vaccinated against Covid, CEO Cindy Baier told CNBC on Friday.
"Given the widespread access of the vaccine, we're in a much better position to handle the pandemic," she said in an interview onNevertheless, the rise in coronavirus infection levels across the nation still heightens the risk to nursing home residents, many of whom are older and have underlying conditions that make Covid more dangerous to them.
"We want to [have] every Brookdale associate that we can vaccinated. To us, even though our efforts have been ongoing for several months, even though our associate vaccination rates are increasing, we want them to be even higher," Baier said. "That's why we've chosen to go to a vaccine requirement with limited exceptions."
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