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MEXICO Â Missouri Veterans Homes are now accepting new applications after being shut down for over a year.Â
All seven Missouri Veterans Homes were shutdown in March of 2020, and new veteran admissions were stopped in all homes that had positive COVID-19 cases. All visitors were also prohibited from entering the facilities.
The response to the pandemic in the homes resulted in an external review conducted by St. Louis law firm Armstrong Teasdale in October of 2020.Â
The review found that the Missouri Veterans Commission failed to both acknowledge and react promptly to COVID-19 outbreaks within the long-term care facilities. The review resulted in the resignation of MVC chairman Tim Noonan and several immediate adjustments to the day-to-day operations of the homes.
Columbia Mayor Brian Treece announced no new health order will be put in place after the current one expires on May 12.
Masks will still be required in city buildings. Individual businesses and schools have the ability to require masks.
Both the University of Missouri and Columbia Public Schools are no longer requiring masks outdoors.Â
All seven Missouri Veterans Homes were shutdown in March of 2020, and new veteran admissions were stopped in all homes that had positive COVID-19 cases.
The response to the pandemic in the homes resulted in an external review conducted by St. Louis law firm Armstrong Teasdale in October of 2020. The review found that the Missouri Veterans Commission failed to both acknowledge and react promptly to COVID-19 outbreaks within the long-term care facilities.
JEFFERSON CITY â A just-released investigative report on Missouri veterans nursing homes sheds new light on how top government officials first reacted â and didnât react â to information about the spreading danger of COVID-19 at the state-run facilities.
According to the report, released Thursday evening, Michele Renkemeyer, operational excellence leader with the Department of Social Services, said members of the stateâs âFusion Cellâ virus hub were âwell aware of positives and deaths as early as mid-August well into the beginning of September.â
Her statement appears to contradict those made by other top state officials coordinating Missouriâs response to the coronavirus. They told investigators they didnât recognize a problem at the Missouri Veterans Commissionâs seven homes until late September at the earliest.
By JACK SUNTRUP | The St. Louis Post-Dispatch | Published: January 1, 2021
Stars and Stripes is making stories on the coronavirus pandemic available free of charge. See other free reports here. Sign up for our daily coronavirus newsletter here. Please support our journalism with a subscription. JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (Tribune News Service) A just-released investigative report on Missouri veterans nursing homes sheds new light on how top government officials first reacted and didn t react to information about the spreading danger of COVID-19 at the state-run facilities. According to the report, released Thursday evening, Michele Renkemeyer, operational excellence leader with the Department of Social Services, said members of the state s Fusion Cell virus hub were well aware of positives and deaths as early as mid-August well into the beginning of September.