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Pennsylvania Department of Health stands behind COVID-19 nursing home order

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Christen Smith, The Center Square
| March 01, 2021 07:00 PM
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Female nurse doing blood pressure measurement of a senior woman patient. Doctor checking blood pressure of an elderly woman at old age home.
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Pennsylvania acting Secretary of Health Alison Beam stood behind her department’s guidance issued to nursing homes last spring to accept COVID-19 patients back into their facilities after hospitalization.
Critics argue the “dangerous” policy contributed to more than 12,000 nursing home deaths, but Beam said Thursday that the Department of Health took the directive straight from the federal government in an effort to reduce the strain on the health care system.

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