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Malinda,
member
since 2010Cafe Manager Melissa Clifford, right, talks with CCMCF Daytime Cook Sherry
Connell in the Pines Cafe at the skilled nursing facility. (Shopper News photo by
Shelly Kehrle-Sulser)The Calhoun County Medical Care Facility will hold a public open house
Thursday, Aug. 15 to showcase all of the accommodations and services
available at the county owned nursing home. Here, Administrator Stephanie
Cornish, left, talks with Lugene Demarest, her grandmother, in her private
room last week. (Shopper News photo by Shelly Kehrle-Sulser)
made us look like we didn’t know
what was going on when in reality,
everything just kept changing.”
But after the advent of vaccines
in 2021 and continued distribution
of vaccinations since, the long-term
care facilities were able to return to
their previous activities with contin-
ued safety protocols in place.
Those include asking anyone who
feels sick to not enter the facility,
providing hand sanitizer throughout
the building and at the front entrance
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and providing masks for those who
may want extra protection.
“As of July 1, we’re all back
online,” said Cornish about a pre-
vious reduced bed census that has
since been restored. “Some of our
beds were offline over the last two
years, which means they weren’t
counted like financially for the
facility. When it came to Medicaid
reimbursement, it was a something
the state offered to do. We didn’t get
penalized for not having full beds.
And now we’re all back online, allSee CARE on 14