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Vassar Byrd is a nationally recognized expert source on the topics of gerontology, innovative senior living and the importance of person-directed care. She has lent her expertise to stories in the L.A. Times, U.S. News & World Report, the New York Times, Parents.com, The Oregonian and more. She has also been featured in stories on KXL-FM News/Talk and NPR.Rose Villa is regularly featured in local and industry media. If you are a journalist, please contact Jennifer Werdel, Director of Marketing and Communications.
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Common Mistakes That Could Harm Your Staff Retention
Jan 5, 2022Given the staffing shortage in the senior care industry, improving staff retention is more important now than ever. But staff retention has other implications for senior care settings, parti... Read More »
Post-vaccine: The future of senior living
Jul 19, 2021With the ready availability of the COVID-19 vaccine to anyone age 12 and older, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s recent announcement that people can resume activities w... Read More »
Clarity, confidence and competence: Leadership through COVID-19 chaos reveals industry’s resilience
May 28, 2021Running a nursing home during the pandemic, especially in its frightening and exhausting early months, may have left some leaders feeling they were trying to fix the engine while flying. But a panel o... Read More »
COVID-19 good news: 1st doses of vaccine have reached almost all Oregonians in long-term care
Feb 23, 2021Oregon quietly reached a monumental milestone last week in the fight against COVID-19.
First doses of the vaccine for COVID-19 have reached almost every nursing home, assisted living and memory care ... Read More »
Some senior care staff unsure about the coronavirus vaccine as managers race to educate workers
Jan 14, 2021John Eaglin Jr. works with some of the most vulnerable Oregonians, but when he learned he could get a shot of the vaccine against the coronavirus, he wasn’t sure if he wanted to d... Read More »
Nursing home staff COVID-19 vaccination: A work in progress
Jan 14, 2021At nursing homes across the country, residents are stepping up for a shot of what Mary Lynn Spalding, CEO of Christian Care Communities, calls "liquid gold." But staff have been more hesitant&nbs... Read More »
A special present at Rose Villa
Dec 30, 2020Rose Villa in Oak Grove was among Oregon‘s first long-term care facilities to receive the Pfizer vaccine on Monday, Dec. 21, when approximately 180 staff and residentsgot the first of two COVID-... Read More »
Long-term care facilities celebrate, share lessons learned from COVID-19 vaccine clinics
Dec 28, 2020As pharmacists from CVS and Walgreens have entered long-term care facilities to vaccinate staff and residents against COVID-19, they have been resoundingly been met with cheers, leaders say. Read More »
KATU - Oregon long-term care residents start receiving vaccine
Dec 22, 2020KATU - Oregon long-term care residents start receiving vaccine
By Lashay Wesley and Associated PressMonday, December 21, 2020 Read More »
Oregon long-term care residents start receiving vaccine
Dec 22, 2020Rose Villa in Oak Grove was among Oregon's first long-term care facilities to receive the Pfizer vaccine on Monday, Dec. 21, when approximately 180 staff and residents got the first of two COVID-19 va... Read More »
‘The end of an incredibly long road’ as first Oregon senior care home staff and residents get coronavirus vaccine
Dec 22, 2020It was almost a mundane affair, the 20-year-old senior care worker peering into her phone as she sat, one crossed leg bouncing on top of the other, waiting to get the shot.
But like most things relat... Read More »
Oregon long-term care facilities start vaccinating residents and staff
Dec 21, 2020Oregon long-term care facilities start vaccinating residents and staffLong-term care facilities started vaccinations Monday morning.
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