The Department of Health released a report on Thursday recommending all long-term facilities with pediatric and adult ventilator beds have an infection control plan that allows for separation of sick and well residents — and the staff caring for them — as quickly as possible and monitoring of staff and residents for illness. The DOH also recommended that some of its policy changes be included in statute (others in regulation) and on Thursday the Senate and Assembly Health committees introduced legislation to address key recommendations in response to the deadly adenovirus outbreak last fall at the Wanaque Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation in Haskell.
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