INDIANA — Operators in this state are among the latest to bring in the National Guard to take additional pressure off staff members trying to contend with COVID-19 challenges. Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb (R) announced the move in October in an effort to help exhausted staff.
Multiple states, including Minnesota, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Texas and Nevada, also have called in the National Guard to help nursing homes respond to the pandemic. They have taken varied approaches to utilizing their respective Guard personnel.
The Indiana program was to involve members of the National Guard being stationed at long-term care facilities to help screen employees, perform data entry, assist with testing and infection control protocols, and perform other tasks, Holcomb said.
He added that the National Guard initially were being deployed at facilities that had at least one case of COVID-19 and were to eventually cover all facilities in the state.
From the December 2020 Issue of McKnight's Long-Term Care News
