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DeSantis Eases Nursing Home Visitation Rules
October 23, 2020
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday further relaxed restrictions on nursing home and long-term care facility visitations.
“What we’re trying to do on this is really empower the residents, the families and the facilities to be able to make good decisions,” DeSantis said during a new conference in Fort Myers.
The new order allows minors to visit with family members and allows visitations outdoors regardless of any positive cases in the facility.
“We just don’t have very many cases that get linked to outdoor activity,” DeSantis said. “I’m not saying it can’t happen — obviously it could happen under the right circumstances — but being outdoors has been something that’s been very positive, and particularly as the weather starts to get better in Florida and gets a little cooler, I think we’re in a position where that’s going to be very, very viable.”
The order also eliminated the five-person maximum number of general visitors and clarifies that there are no social distancing requirements for compassionate caregivers.
Pictured: Century Health and Rehabilitation Center, which reported nine total residents deaths during the COVID-19 pandemic. NorthEscambia.com file photo, click to enlarge.
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4 Responses to “DeSantis Eases Nursing Home Visitation Rules”
Every day, it gets harder for me to tell if the governor is just an idiot or if he is actively trying to kill as many of his constituents as possible.
Let’s not get excited just yet. We had a family member over at Solaris for therapy, and even though the governor had relaxed the restrictions, they have their own protocols to go two weeks completely covid negative before allowing anyone in, and if there is a positive test, they lock down again until two weeks covid negative again. Practically speaking, they will likely never open to visitors.
For an appt. to visit our loved one we are told to call a corporate number in Georgia, then wait on hold for 30+ minutes for an outside appt. to see our loved one for 20 minutes and only once a week. She has recovered from COVID-19. Outdoors is great. Twice a week would be better.
Thank You. Visiting our love ones is very important for all family members. I couldn’t imagine how anybody could handle being cut off from their family. DeSantis made another Good Decision