Assisted living facilities are responding to omicron
Newhaven Court has a 100% COVID-19 vaccination rate for staff and residents, which executive operations officer Gary Renwick said helped the assisted living facility get ahead of the omicron variant.
“We never stopped with all our regimen as far as safety precautions; we screen every visitor and we do not allow more than 30 at one time,” Renwick said Friday. “To visit, you have to be screened. We take temperature, and we take oxygen level. As long as they are able to pass that, they are required to wear masks, socially distance as much as possible.”
The American Health Care Association and National Center for Assisted Living said in a Wednesday news release that nursing homes throughout the country have experienced “an alarming spike” in COVID-19 cases due to community spread among the general population.
A report from the organization said nationally there are about 57,000 weekly nursing home staff cases and 32,061 weekly resident cases as of Jan. 9.
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