Nursing home sets rules for visitors

  • At left, visits such as ones in the past by non-profit organizations like Living Love Animal Rescue are not permitted in the Marble Falls Granite Mesa Health Center nursing home due to COVID-19 transmission concerns. The facility uses a policy with guidelines for categories such as “essential caregivers.”
    At left, visits such as ones in the past by non-profit organizations like Living Love Animal Rescue are not permitted in the Marble Falls Granite Mesa Health Center nursing home due to COVID-19 transmission concerns. The facility uses a policy with guidelines for categories such as “essential caregivers.”
  • How caregivers get to spend time with their loved ones at Granite Mesa Health Center nursing home in Marble Falls is now dependent upon whether the visitor has received the COVID-19 vaccine or not. During the 2020 virus lockdowns, residents were permitted to interact by phone through a window. File photos
    How caregivers get to spend time with their loved ones at Granite Mesa Health Center nursing home in Marble Falls is now dependent upon whether the visitor has received the COVID-19 vaccine or not. During the 2020 virus lockdowns, residents were permitted to interact by phone through a window. File photos
Concerns about visiting loved ones at Granite Mesa Health Center nursing home in Marble Falls raised some concerns by a client’s loved one and prompted several questions for the facility’s corporate headquarters, Californiabased Ensign Group, Inc. The local facility, 1401 Max Copeland Dr., recently lifted the over year-long in person visitation prohibition, inspired by COVID-19 restrictions, for…

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