ALBANY, N.Y. — On Friday, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced that the state Department of Health will recommend that nursing homes resume allowing visitation, following CDC and CMS precautions.
The governor did not give a timeline on when visitations might be able to resume, but he did say that visitors would take a rapid test when visiting.
Visitors will be tested before entering the facility. The tests would be provided to nursing homes by the state. This is a change from the previous requirement allowing visitors, among other guidelines, to come if they get tested seven days before a scheduled visit.
Currently, nursing homes can only have visitors if they haven't had a new COVID-19 case in the past 14 days, all visitors must be over 18-years-old and residents can only have two visitors at a time. As of Friday, no new guidance to these rules have been provided.