COVID-19 Update: Nursing Home & Assisted Living Employee Testing Exemption, Homebound Vaccination Plan
LONG-TERM CARE/NURSING FACILITY TESTING ORDER Governor DeWine announced this week that a new Ohio Department of Health order will exempt fully vaccinated staff in nursing homes and assisted living facilities from routine testing. Staff members who are not fully vaccinated will be required to be tested twice a week. An individual is considered fully vaccinated two weeks after their second dose of the Pfizer or Moderna COVID-19 vaccines or two weeks after the single-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine. HOMEBOUND VACCINATION PLAN The Ohio Department of Aging and Ohio Department of Health have develop...