Nursing home finalizing plans to resume in-person visitation

GREENSBURG, Pa. — A year to the day since the pandemic started, Westmoreland Manor is finalizing plans to resume in-person visitation.

“I mean we do the FaceTime and everything but it’s still not the same,” said Corin Boring.

Boring hasn’t been able to give her mom a hug in a year. She lives at the nursing home and since the onset of COVID-19, she could only visit virtually or through a window.

“It’s been really hard,” she said. “It’s kind of emotional.”

New nursing home guidelines were released by the Centers for Medicare-Medicaid allowing in-person visits if at least 70% of the residents are vaccinated and the county’s positivity rate is less than 10%.

“My heart absolutely breaks that this is the one-year anniversary since nursing homes were shut down to visitors,” said Westmoreland County Commissioner Gina Cerilli.

Since the manor shut down last March, 101 workers and 183 residents contracted COVID-19. Ten people died.

The manor is hoping to have the visitation plans finalized by next week.

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