Visitors can now visit long-term care facilities to see family members. | Pixabay
Visitors can now visit long-term care facilities to see family members. | Pixabay
During the COVID-19 pandemic, visiting loved ones at long-term care facilities has become difficult, but the Iowa Department of Public Health has given out new guidance to allow for visitation in the facilities once again, KIMT reported.
Indoor visits will be allowed at long-term care facilities, but recommendations and facility policy must be followed.
Chat boxes separated by Plexiglas must be used for indoor visits. Residents at the facilities will also be allowed more services like hair cuts and other quality of life services.
"We worked with the Iowa Department of Public Health, Cerro Gordo Public Health, any state agency that would be involved with us. We were able to separate people and get it calmed down here in the facility where we're now COVID-free," Good Shepherd Health Center CEO Ian Stockberger told KIMT. "We are offering an amped up hybrid window visit, where we have purchased some good audio equipment and some microphones. People are able to have a high quality visit with a glass partition in between them. It's very safe, very easy to hear people."
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