Families react to change in nursing home visitation guidelines Families react to change in nursing home visitation guidelines By Emily Wakeman | March 10, 2021 at 10:41 PM EST - Updated March 10 at 11:14 PM COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - Governor Henry McMaster and state health officials announced changes to nursing home and community residential care facility visitation guidelines. These changes require facilities to allow in-person, in-door visitation if the facility meets certain standards. Those standards include allowing visitation when the percent positivity rate in the county in which the facility is located is at or below 10%, there have been no COVID-19 cases among staff and/or residents in the past 14 days, and the facility has maintained CMS’ core principles of COVID-19 reinfection prevention.