Yesterday, at Governor DeSantis’ direction, Florida Division of Emergency Management Director and State Coordinating Officer Jared Moskowitz issued an Emergency Order that lifts restrictions for visitation to nursing homes, assisted living facilities…
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DeSantis to allow nursing home visitations
At his daily press conference, Gov. Ron DeSantis announced that he will allow visits to nursing homes under certain conditions. Facilities must be virus free for 14 days before allowing visitors. According…
State to require bi-weekly testing of nursing home staff
By Christine Sexton, The News Service of Florida TALLAHASSEE — Staff members at nursing homes and assisted living facilities will be required to be tested for COVID-19 every two weeks under a…
Thursday a.m. briefing
Pandemic EBT Now Available in Florida On Wednesday, I looked into how Escambia County was helping the over 900 children that were fed by the school district through Friday, May 22. Nationally,…
Tuesday briefing: Fla. COVID-19 analyst removed; nursing homes stealing stimulus checks
For the past couple weeks. I’ve mentioned irregularities with the FDOH COVID-19 dashboard–most recently the long delay in updating the COVID reports last Friday. Florida Today reports Rebekah Jones, architect and manager of…
Nursing home residents: ‘Real people who want to keep living’
A former advocacy outreach coordinator for the Center for Independent Living said it’s wrong for people to think that every resident of a long-term care facility is terminally ill and waiting to…
Nursing home COVID-19 cases
Eleven of Escambia County’s 15 COVID-19 associated deaths are with long-term care facilities, according to the latest reports from FDOH. The health department hasn’t reported how many are staff members. Since April…
The Weekly Checkup: Nursing homes cautious about state reopening
By Christine Sexton, The News Service of Florida Long-term care providers confronted by a sizable number of deaths due to the coronavirus pandemic are more wary than others about reopening Florida’s health…
FDOH provides list of nursing homes with COVID-19 cases
As of 10 a.m. today, Florida DOH reported Escambia County had 58 COVID-19 cases in long-term care facilities and nine in Santa Rosa. Later today, FDOH provided a list of the infected…
COVID-19: What you need to know Weds. morning
Escambia County now has 48 positive COVID-19 cases among residents and staff at local long-term care facilities – up 40 from last Tuesday, April 7. Inweekly has asked the county to identify…
Best and worst nursing homes
The Federal government has a new rating system for nursing homes. According to the system, the best ones (Five stars overall ) in Pensacola are Bayside Manor, Haven of Our Lady of…