{"id":"AR-074","kind":"order","level":"sector-regulator","jurisdiction":"Arkansas","state":"AR","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Secretary of Health and Secretary of Human Services","authority":"Ark. Code Ann. 20-7-109 to -110; 20-10-101(10)","instrument":"ADH-DHS Guidance for Limiting the Transmission of COVID-19 for Long-Term Care Facilities (revised March 13, 2020), as posted on the ADH directives page through summer 2020 (\u0027directive_long_term_care\u0027)","title":"Long-term-care visitation prohibition and screening directive (second copy of the March 13, 2020 text)","dateIssued":"2020-03-13","effective":"2020-03-13","end":"Superseded Oct. 6, 2020 (Ex. AR-064)","startDate":"2020-03-13","endDate":"2020-10-06","quarters":["2020Q2","2020Q3","2020Q4"],"types":["HC"],"addressees":["nursing homes, residential care facilities, assisted living facilities, post-acute head injury facilities"],"clause":"Effective immediately, the Arkansas Department of Health directs all long-term care facilities to prohibit all visitation until further notice unless medically necessary or by law enforcement or other emergency personnel, a representative from the Arkansas Department of Health, a representative from the Arkansas Department of Human Services Office of Long-term Care, or a representative from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. This prohibition shall begin on March 13, 2020, and remain in effect until further notice.... The Arkansas Department of Health also directs all long-term care facilities to screen all visitors and employees... For employees, screening shall be done prior to every shift.","enforcement":"Ark. Code Ann. 20-7-101 misdemeanor; EO 20-13 par. 11 and EO 20-25 par. 13 continue it","functions":["VS visitation","RS residential care","HC outside providers","IC screening every shift"],"notes":"Same text as Ex. AR-045 (the ADH server carried it under two file names); retained as the copy linked in Aug. 2020.","sourceUrl":"https://www.healthy.arkansas.gov/images/uploads/pdf/directive_long_term_care.pdf","snapshot":"https://web.archive.org/web/20200805000000/https://www.healthy.arkansas.gov/images/uploads/pdf/directive_long_term_care.pdf","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":216365,"grade":"primary","character":"","description":"","collection":"AR","url":"/library/AR-074","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/AR-074","citation":"Secretary of Health and Secretary of Human Services, ADH-DHS Guidance for Limiting the Transmission of COVID-19 for Long-Term Care Facilities (revised March 13, 2020), as posted on the ADH directives page through summer 2020 (\u0027directive_long_term_care\u0027) (Mar. 13, 2020) (Ex. AR-074)","stateName":"Arkansas","related":["AR-064","AR-045"]}