How long term care facility vaccinations impact residents and their families
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LA CROSSE, Wis. - (WXOW) - For a long nearly ten months, long-term care facility residents have been kept from their families and the outside world but with the vaccine arriving, they are beginning to see a light at the end of the tunnel.
Hillview Nursing Home in La Crosse has been closed to the public since the pandemic began.
"Since March of 2020, long term care facilities have had to restrict visitors from entering facilities including family members, spouses, and loved ones," said Doctor Elizabeth Cogbill, a geriatric physician. "The idea behind that is we want to protect these very vulnerable residents from contracting COVID, but the downside of that is they can't see their loved ones and their family."