‘We were waiting for this day’: First visitor returns to New Brighton nursing home
Updated Mar 11, 2021;
Posted Mar 11, 2021
Izabella Genin, left, visits with her mother, Maria Yudin, at Staten Island Care Center in New Brighton Wednesday, March 10, 2021. (Courtesy of Staten Island Care Center)
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On Wednesday, she got her chance.
“We were waiting for this day,” said Genin, whose mother, Maria Yudin, will turn 98 in just two months. “Finally, I saw her.”
New York state expanded visitation guidelines to enable nursing homes to allow visitors in nursing home facilities that have been free of coronavirus (COVID-19) cases for 14 days in conjunction with a rapid test that can be conducted in the facilities.