Nursing home residents can once again receive visitors inside the facilities whenever they want after the Biden administration lifted Covid-19 visitation restrictions Friday.
Noting the falling rates of nursing home infections—and increasing staff vaccination rates—the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services said the time was right to let residents safely resume unrestricted visits.
“While all residents have a right to visitation, fully open and unrestricted visitation posed a clinical health and safety risk to other residents during this Public Health Emergency, and therefore, it was reasonable to place limits on visitation,” the new guidance said. “However, current nursing home COVID-19 ...
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