Following the deaths of 5 residents at a nursing home in Washington state, care centers across the country are taking additional steps to combat coronavirus
on Wednesday that allows health care facilities to screen resident’s family members who may be sick or have traveled to areas with known cases of coronavirus.
Janet Snipes, the executive director of the Holly Heights Nursing Center in Denver, Colorado said the center may choose to restrict visitors based on their answers to the travel and respiratory symptoms screens but that their staff is “being prepared to offer alternatives to visits including Skype calls, phone calls, and emails.”
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