Governor Inslee Announces Coronavirus Testing for LTC Facilities Staffers, Residents | The Seattle Times
OLYMPIA — Gov. Jay Inslee Thursday announced a state directive requiring nursing homes and the memory-care units in assisted-living facilities to offer testing to their residents for the new coronavirus.
Announced in a news conference, the directive also requires those facilities to test staffers for the virus, except those who can prove a medical exemption.
“To help in this effort, our state is going to be sending test kits and personal protective equipment (PPE) supplies to nursing homes” as well as memory-care units, Inslee said.
The tests are meant to help detect — and ideally curb — the spread of the virus in long-term care facilities, which emerged immediately during the pandemic as high-risk locations for outbreaks and fatalities. Full article
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