Governor allows visitation to certain long-term care facilities
SANTA FE (KSMX)- Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham along with state health officials announced that a new visitation guideline in long term care facilities will be set up to allow for visitations between families and their loved ones.
Requirements for outdoor visits by appointment include:
- Plexiglas visitation station or open-window visits
- 6 ft with both parties wearing masks
- 12 ft if the resident is unable to wear a mask
- The goal is to have resident visits once a month
- Beginning with counties with less than 5% test positivity rate, and 10 average daily cases per 100,000 residents
The counties that can begin visitation include:
- Bernalillo County
- Colfax County
- De Baca County
- Grant County
- Guadalupe County
- Harding County
- Hidalgo County
- Los Alamos County
- McKinley County
- Otero County
- Quay County
- Sandoval County
- Sandoval County
- Santa Fe County
- San Juan County
- San Miguel County
- Sierra County
- Socorro County
- Taos County
- Torrance County
- Valencia County
Other requirements for long-term care facility visits include:
- No active COVID cases in a facility
- Visitors must be healthy (A screening will be conducted)
- Social distancing required
- Appropriate PEE must be worn
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