Glen Cove Nursing and Rehab Center Patients and Healthcare Workers Receive COVID-19 Vaccine

Ninety year old Lorraine Lazarowitz, the facility's Resident Council President, was one of the first to receive the vaccine. Photo credit: Glen Cove Center for Nursine and Rehabilitation

It was certainly an encouraging and uplifting way to end the year 2020, when vaccination day arrived this week at the Glen Cove Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation, 6 Medical Plaza in Glen Cove. Ninety residents and 75 healthcare staff healthcare staff received the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine.

The vaccination process was done by Walgreens, with the second dose of the vaccine scheduled to be done on January 19, 2021. Ninety-year-old Lorraine Lazarowitz, the facility’s Resident Council President, was one of the first to receive the vaccine.