NEW YORK — It has been a long four months during the COVID-19 pandemic for all New Yorkers but especially hard for those unable to visit loved ones in nursing homes and assisted living families across the state.
The state's health departments is now allowing visits, beginning Wednesday. However, restrictions make those visits still difficult to come by.
Temperature checks, face masks and social distancing are required and only 10% of residents can have visitors at a time. Each resident can only have two residents at a time. The most difficult criteria: the nursing home must have been COVID-19 free for 28 days before letting visitors in.
"I don't think most nursing homes are going to be able to meet the criteria," said Scott LaRue of ArchCare Nursing Homes, citing the 28-day coronavirus-free rule which applies to either patients or employees. "If you assume that 1% of the population is positive at any given time, it's going to be really difficult to get to 28 days without a positive test."
Only one of the five facilities LaRue runs meets the criteria and can begin visitation on Wednesday. PIX11 News visited Mary Manning Walsh nursing home on the Upper West Side, where they're still 23 days away.
Roughly 500 nursing homes had reported COVID-19 cases among staffers in June, according to state survey data released this week.
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