VITAS IPUs give care 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. VITAS is incorporating guidance provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to hospitals and nursing homes to limit the potential spread of COVID-19.
Each visitor to the IPU must have a temperature less than 100 degrees and no respiratory symptoms.
Also, we are limiting visitors to one at a time to allow necessary time with their loved ones, but also recognizing we are in the midst of a pandemic, which requires steps to limit risk of exposure for everyone.