He served in the army from 1965 to 1968, and settled in Sunnyside and Corona after his honorable discharge. Morales’ dad, 81-year-old retired Army sergeant Charles Kennedy, beat COVID-19 in April of last year and avoided a recurrence before finally getting vaccinated in February, she said. “It’s been scary, and not having that face to face, that emotion, has been hard.” “Not to be with him for so long has been really challenging,” Morales said. She said she recently learned about the visitation restart from a social worker.
The reopening plan comes as a huge relief to Eileen Morales, a New Jersey resident who hasn’t seen her father in more than 13 months. The Northport VA nursing home in Nassau County opened to visitors on March 31. The network has two other campuses in Bay Ridge and the Lowest East Side. At least 134 residents have died of COVID across the VA New York Harbor Healthcare System, which includes the St. The decision to welcome back visitors comes a few weeks after New York loosened restrictions on state nursing homes where COVID-19 once surged, killing thousands of older adult residents. The CLC will announce changes to the reopening plan on social media, he said. He cautioned that the plan depends on controlling the rate of COVID-19 in the area and at the facility. Visitors are not required to be vaccinated and no more than two visitors may enter a room at a time, Drake said. “We are ready and anxious to begin visitation on April 14,” Drake said.Ībout 97 percent of residents and 80 percent of staff members have received the COVID-19 vaccine, enabling the safe resumption of in-person visits, he said.įamily and friends will be allowed to stop by for 50 minutes at a time and must wear a mask. Albans Community Living Center, currently home to 113 veterans, has been on lockdown since the coronavirus pandemic began in March 2020, but will open back up to visitors on Wednesday, April 14, said spokesperson Michael Drake. A Queens nursing home for military veterans is set to loosen its visitor restrictions, allowing residents to see their loved ones face-to-face for the first time in 13 months, officials said Friday.
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