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Riverview Healthcare sets rare national Covid-19 standard for blocking virus
“While we knew we were a rarity, we did not realize how much of a rarity we were,” said Kendra German. The Administrator of Ottawa County Riverview Healthcare, German recently discovered the facility was one of only 64 nursing homes in the country to not suffer a Covid-19 outbreak.
The news broke in the article “Most SNF’s hit by COVID 3x” by Kimberly Marselas of McKnight’s Long Term Care News in June. SNF stands for Skilled Nursing Facilities, the terminology used by the Centers of Medicare/Medicaid Services for Nursing Homes.