McMaster Requests Nursing Home Visitation Guidelines from DHEC
South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster has asked the state Department of Health and Environmental Control to issue up-to-date guidelines for allowing visitation at nursing homes and assisted living facilities.
McMaster said, “Restricting visitation in those facilities in March was a heartbreaking necessity to contain the spread of Covid-19 and save the lives of the state’s elderly and at-risk residents.”
He says the time has come though to expand current rules to allow in-person visitation by immediate family members, loved ones or caregivers.
Mary Liz is the News Director and Co-Host of Augusta’s Morning News on WGAC. She spent 11 years as a News Director at an Indiana Radio Station. She has also worked as a former Police and Courts Reporter for The Republic Newspaper and Assistant Marketing Director of Merchants National Bank in Indianapolis. Mary Liz focuses most on local breaking news stories, feature stories on upcoming events, or community-service related organizations and the people who serve them. She has been with WGAC since 1995.
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