New guidance opening up long term care facility oportunities
Recommendations allow for visits regardless of vaccination status in most cases
March 11, 2021 5:59 PM Greg White
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The new guidance from the CDC allows for visitations, regardless of vaccination status in most cases.
Visits are not recommended for unvaccinated residents in the facilities if the positivity rate is above ten percent or for residents that have a COVID-19 infection.
The change has been a long time coming for residents and medical professionals.
“It’s really exciting. It’s a huge step in terms of moving forward in the pandemic for our residents and the families of our residents of live in long-term care facilites,” said Gundersen Health Systme geriatrician Dr. Elizabeth Cogbill.
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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.
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LA CROSSE, Wis. (WKBT) – Wisconsin’s Department of Health Services reported 120 new deaths Tuesday, the most single-day deaths since the pandemic began. However, the path out of the pandemic begins in La Crosse this week. A COVID-19 vaccine was received by healthcare workers at Gundersen Health System Tuesday.
“I am just incredibly grateful for this moment, this day,” Dr. Elizabeth Cogbill of Gundersen Health System.
The finish line to this exhausting race cannot be seen without the start of its solution.
“This is the shot of hope after months and months of walking this journey,” Cogbill said, who leads Gundersen’s long term care team.
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