SPRINGFIELD – The Illinois Department of Public Health has launched an online portal to track the vaccination rates for residents and staff of long term care facilities statewide. On Wednesday Governor J.B. Pritzker announced that by early October all staff at state run facilities will be required to have received the COVID-19 vaccine. Private care institutions are reporting their results, and the numbers vary greatly statewide, from a facility in Lincoln, Illinois reporting under 12% of the staff vaccinated, to a number of institutions reporting 99% staff or residents vaccinated. Locally, Heritage Health in Peru is reporting one of the highest vaccination rates, 92% for residents and 77% for staff.
You can see the statewide statistics at the website http://www.dph.illinois.gov/covid19/long-term-care-facility-data
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