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Advocates call for visitation plan for residents isolated due to COVID

PHOTO COURTESY OF REFORMED CHURCH HOME
Magdalene Holland, who spent 23 days in isolation after testing positive for COVID-19, took a hold of her walker and walked out of isolation back to her apartment in assisted living at Reformed Church Home (RCH). She is RCH's first COVID-19 patient to come out of isolation.

During the one-year anniversary week of lockdown in long-term care communities in New Jersey, Family Advocate Care Experience (FACE NJ) is sponsoring a traveling sign campaign which will move 300 signs across the state to highlight the damaging effects of isolation and to demand an immediate visitation plan to allow in-room caregiving visits for residents who have suffered too long from isolation.

Family members of FACE NJ will post 300 signs in multiple locations across the state. The signs will say #IsolationKillsToo and will include the names of loved ones who have died or are living in isolation.

The group will arrive at Gloria Bradford Borough Park, 80 Violet Terrace, Milltown, on March 10.

For more information, visit the Facebook page “One Year, Two Shots, Now What?”

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