Executive Order Michigan Nursing Homes
Rescission of executive order 2020 95.
Executive order michigan nursing homes. During the covid 19 pandemic. This order is effective immediately and continues through may 13. Regional hub means a nursing home that is designated by dhhs as a dedicated facility to temporarily and exclusively provide care to covid affected residents.
2 004 have died accounting for nearly one third of. If they can t provide adequate care sending the patient to a regional hub is one of their options. The regional hubs are a reality because michigan democratic governor gretchen whitmer signed an executive order that makes it mandatory for a nursing home to accept a patient back to their facility unless they are unable to care for them.
Acting under the michigan constitution of 1963 and michigan law i order the following. The novel coronavirus covid 19 is a respiratory disease that can result in serious illness or death. This executive order protects more long term care facility residents and staff including the most vulnerable residents in our nursing homes the michigan department of health and human services mdhhs reports 7 554 nursing home residents have tested positive for the virus since march.
Dhhs may issue orders and directives and take any other actions pursuant to law to implement this executive order. Enhanced protections for residents and staff of long term care facilities. An executive order set to expire at midnight saturday restricting visits to nursing homes in michigan was replaced friday by one that extends those restrictions through july 24 though officials.
With this order executive order 2020 7 is rescinded. It is the public policy of this state that employees of long term care facilities or regional hubs who test positive for covid 19 or who display one or more of the principal symptoms of covid 19 should remain in their homes or places of residence as provided in section 2 of executive order 2020 36 or any order that may follow from it and that. This order clarifies those restrictions and extends their duration as they remain reasonable and necessary to protect the health and safety of this state and its residents from the covid 19 pandemic.
Gretchen whitmer must reverse course on her executive order that is placing michigan s most vulnerable seniors at risk.