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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Such a difficult time with no great answers.  Wouldn't having a positive patient coming from the hospital into a nursing home just spread it more there? They don't seem to be isolating these patients.

We know that it's spreading from workers going from facility to facility.  [/quote]

Nursing homes are doing a number of things to prevent the spread of Covid-19.  They stopped visitors except for end of life situations and then limited it to only one.  All residents are pretty much quarantined to their rooms so there is no interaction between residents - no group meals, no activities, etc.  Covid-19 positive residents are quarantined in a different area.  If a resident goes out for any reason, then they are quarantined for 14 days after return - but  as a practical matter, this doesn't look different than everyday life.  They take the temperature of staff and do a health check whenever a staff member enters the building.  Many/Most will only accept their own Covid-19 positive residents on readmission from the hospital - no new residents who are positive.

You are absolutely wrong when you say that they don't seem to be isolating patients.  First, they are called residents, not patients.  And, they are isolating all residents plus separately isolating Covid-19 positive residents.  [/quote]

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