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'Just cruel at this point': Nursing homes push to reopen for visits, hugs after COVID-19 vaccine Letitia Stein, USA TODAY A Missouri man worried about his mother’s weight loss after she spent a year in a nursing home under COVID-19 lockdown without his daily peanut butter shakes.  In Florida, a devoted husband celebrated his final wedding anniversary on opposite sides of his wife’s nursing home window.  A woman in the Bronx, New York, blamed her mild heart attack on stressful months of separation from her mother.  “I couldn’t hug her for Mother’s Day, for the who...

Skip to main content Currently Reading Families have gone through extraordinary lengths to visit loved ones in nursing homes. Soon they may hug again. FacebookTwitterEmail Confetti flies in the air as Jeanne Peters, 95, a rehab patient at The Reservoir, a nursing facility, gestures after she was given the first COVID-19 vaccination as Mary Lou Galushko, left, looks on,Friday, Dec. 18, 2020, in West Hartford, Conn. (AP Photo/Stephen Dunn, Pool)Stephen Dunn / Associated Press It’s been nearly a year since Gov. Ned Lamont issued an executive order restricting nursing home visits throughout the...

Biden Administration eases restrictions for nursing home visits The guidelines say that vaccinated residents may have “close contact, including touch, with a visitor if they are wearing a mask." Author: Briana Ray-Turner Updated: 7:14 PM EST March 11, 2021 JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — On Wednesday the Biden Administration released revised guidelines for nursing home visits, loosening some of the restrictions associated with the COVID-19 pandemic. The guidelines say that vaccinated residents may have “close contact, including touch, with a visitor if they are we...

Families say isolation is deadly for nursing home patients, call for more access Group calls for ending nursing home isolation Some people are still unable to see their loved ones in nursing homes even as vaccines are being distributed. Now, a group fighting for access to their loved ones is going on a road trip, taking their message around the Sunshine State. ORLANDO, Fla. - Three hundred signs will be placed at Festival Park in Orlando on Tuesday morning. They represent those who have died or have limited visitation with family in nursing homes. The signs read "Isolation Kills Too."

​Now, 300 yellow signs bearing those words and the names of long-term care residents currently in isolation or who have passed away, are on the front lawn of the Old Capitol in Tallahassee. The group’s founder, Mary Daniel, put them up this week with the help of some volunteers. “I actually wrote all of the names on them myself. I said their name out loud as I did that. And everytime I see it, it’s incredibly moving,” Daniel said. “Because they represent not only an individual who had a full life and who is due the respect and honor as they close their life out, but it represents ...