Families return to nursing homes for first time in nearly 1 year stock image and last updated 2021-03-02 22:55:59-05 (WXYZ) â "We can now allow visitations at nursing homes too,â said Gov. Gretchen Whitmer during her Tuesday news briefing, as she eased some coronavirus restrictions. That one sentence is what Kamin Davis has been waiting nearly a year to hear. âNot being able to leave a facility in a year's time is tough on anybody,â Davis said. His mother is in her 80s and has been in a Livonia nursing home for more than seven years. After near-daily visits from family, sheâs spent the last year alone.