Nursing Home Visits

Tennessee nursing homes began allowing visits from loved ones today.

Today is the first day nursing homes could reopen their doors to visitors in tennessee.

News 12's joeli poole spoke with one assisted living facility, looking forward to brighter days for their residents.

Nursing homes have been closed to the public since march of this year and that means that residents have been unable to visit their loved ones in person.

As a response to this, morning pointe assisted living has constructed a visitation booth that now allows residents to visit their family members, without putting their health in jeopardy.

The executive director of the assisted living home says the global pandemic has been difficult on their residents -for many reasons.

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