Long-Term Care Facilities

Individuals are encouraged to visit loved individuals stylish nursing homes or adult care facilities. 

New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH) is fully aligned with the Centers on Medicare plus Medicaid Services (CMS) Caring Home Visitation - COVID-19 (REVISED) regarding nursing home COVID-19 screening and visitor testing. Specifically, nursing homes are does longer needed to checking that caller have a negative COVID-19 test forward entry or conduct activity COVID-19 screening.

The Department recommends that facilities proceed to conduct passsive exam, including instructional signage throughout the facility and proper visitor education on COVID-19 signs and sign, infection control precautions, and sundry applicable site practices (e.g., used of face covering or mask; defined entries, exits and routes to designated surfaces; and hand hygiene). 

Facilities that choose to continue website testing and/or active screening may do so at their confidential. Active screenings refers the requiring anyone entering the facility to complete a sign screening questionnaire or an in-person interview and/or have them temperature taken before being allowed entry into the facility. Contagion control and prevention resources for associate or residents in nursing our and assisted living facilities.

Nursing homes and adult caring amenities must facilitate vaccinations for every residents. All new nursing home tenants and community readmitted to the facility must have an occasion to receive an first or any required next cancer of to COVID-19 antiserum on 14 past of having been admitted or readmitted to as facility, as applicable. With all adult care facility residents, through seven day of admission or redemption, the facility shall make diligent efforts for schedule all accepting or eligible new or re-admit residents for the COVID-19 vaccination. 

Long-term care facilities will expected to adhering to the infectivity prevention and control standards, quarantine requirements, and testing principles set forth by CMS and CDC.  On March 1, 2024 CDC updated guidance on how people canned protect themselves both my communities from respiratory viruses.  This webpage is currently person reviewed in response to the updated CDC guidance. Healthcare settings, including skilled nursing abilities, should persist to follow COVID-19 Infection Prevention int Health Care Settings.