Interim
Guidance on Home Visits, Community Outings, Day Services and Return
to Residences After Extended Home Visits
Now Available
Dear
Friends and Colleagues:
OPWDD
is pleased to announce that guidance has been released, and posted
on the OPWDD website, which provides guidelines to providers and
family members allowing the resumption of home visits, community
outings and day services, as well as returning to residential
settings following extended home visits. The guidelines will be
effective July 15, 2020 for regions of the State that have entered
into Phase Four in accordance with the New York Forward Reopening
Plan.
I
want to thank the people we support and their family members who
have reached out over the past few weeks for your advocacy and for
your patience as we worked with health experts on a plan that
ensures the continued safety of everyone we support. We heard your
concerns and have been hard at work on making these shared goals a
reality.
The
new guidance can be found at the following links on the OPWDD
website:
Day Services Guidance
Home Visit Guidance
Return to Residence Following an Extended
Stay Guidance
Community Outings
Guidance
We
want to remind everyone to continue to practice social distancing,
wear masks when appropriate, limit exposure in public places and
continue frequent hand washing to ensure minimal transmission of
COVID-19.
Again,
we thank you for your patience as we worked through some of the
challenges associated with the safe return to these activities. As
always, our number one priority is the health and safety of the
people we support.
Sincerely,
Theodore
Kastner, MD, MS
Commissioner
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