Local long-term care facilities react to updated CDC guidelines on visitations
According to the update from the CDC, long-term care facilities should allow indoor visitations for all residents regardless of their vaccination status. Author: Veronica Ortega Updated: 6:50 PM CST March 12, 2021
FORT SMITH, Ark. This week the CDC updated COVID-19 safety guidelines for long-term care facilities visitation. This comes after more than 3 million doses of the vaccine have been given at nursing homes across the country.
For months Arkansas families with a loved one living at long-term care facilities had to make a visit on the other side of a window or outside.
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Nursing homes waiting for federal guidance on COVID restrictions
After Gov. Hutchinson s announcement loosening restrictions, people with loved ones in nursing homes in Arkansas are trying to figure out what this means for them. Author: Mercedes Mackay Updated: 5:29 PM CST March 1, 2021
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. After Governor Hutchinson s announcement on Friday, which changed all public health directives to guidelines and allows for businesses to let more people in, some people are confused.
Many, who have loved ones living inside nursing homes, are trying to figure out what this means for them?
Janet Caldwell has been keeping count of the last time she was able to feel her mother s touch.
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Arkansas nursing homes begin offering monoclonal antibody treatment to residents
Right now, it s only offered in a couple of nursing homes, but the Executive Director for Arkansas Healthcare Association said they hope to expand it soon. Author: Mercedes Mackay Updated: 5:34 PM CST January 21, 2021
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. While most staff and residents inside nursing homes have received their first vaccine shot, other facilities are taking it a step further.
Greystone Nursing and Rehab, LLC in Cabot is one of the three long-term care facilities in Arkansas that will begin offering the monoclonal antibody treatment to their residents.
A treatment that Rachel Bunch, Executive Director for Arkansas Healthcare Association, hopes will keep patients out of the already crowded hospitals.