Residents at nursing homes and long-term care facilities are vulnerable to COVID-19. The government issued guidance to assist centers in keeping them safe.
The government is taking steps to protect residents and staff of nursing homes and long-term care facilities during the coronavirus crisis, nearly three months after an outbreak in a nursing home occurred in Washington state.
The Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration, known as OSHA, issued guidance intended to combat the potentially devastating consequences of the coronavirus. The safety measures include tasks many centers had already begun implementing, including screening individuals regularly for symptoms, sending employees home if they become ill and maintaining at least six-feet distance between everyone wherever possible.
iframe.twitter-tweet { width: 100% !important; } Washington state was a high-profile example of how deadly an outbreak of the coronavirus could be in a nursing home. Within a month of the first case at the Life Care Center of Kirkland, Wash., dozens of people had died and even more were infected.
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