As breakthrough covid infections rise, nursing home chains require that staffers be vaccinated

Good Samaritan’s vaccine mandate, announced last month, goes into effect Nov. 1. Good Samaritan is the largest nonprofit long-term-care chain in the nation, with 200 nursing home, assisted-living, and other long-term-care services. It is affiliated with the large Midwestern provider chain Sanford Health, which also adopted the vaccine mandate. Counting Sanford’s 46 hospitals and medical network, the system has nearly 50,000 employees who are required to get vaccinated.