Visitation Update

Visitation Update

Residential Care Services has met with CMS to clarify guidance for indoor visitation.  CMS will allow RCS to continue using the current metrics in the Safe Start Plan for indoor visitation in skilled nursing facilities (number of cases/100,000 in last two weeks, 28-day outbreak cycle).  RCS will convene stakeholders to review all guidance for visitation and update as able to allow indoor visitation as soon as possible, we hope to have this work completed in the next two weeks.  Until the new guidance is released, RCS is advising all areas of LTC to continue to follow the Safe Start Reopening plan for visitation guidance.

 

Questions?

Contact:

Laura Hofmann, MSN, RN – Director of Clinical and Nursing Facility Regulatory Services
c: 425-231-4804