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As a subscriber you can listen to articles at work, in the car, or while you work out. Subscribe NowThe Indiana National Guard is winding down its work in nursing homes across state, two months after Gov. Eric Holcomb deployed more than 1,500 guardsmen to help with visitor screening, data entry and other basic tasks.
The Indiana Department of Health reported in a newsletter Wednesday morning that the National Guard will leave facilities starting Jan. 31.
“We are now planning for the end of this mission to allow many of these soldiers to return to their previous jobs or begin other missions,” the newsletter said.
It continued: “The guard will be leaving facilities approximately seven days after the facility’s second vaccine clinic date. Most will be available during the clinic to help with logistics, but some guard members may leave a few days before or a few days after this date. For example, if your second CVS or Walgreens vaccine clinic is scheduled for Feb. 4, the soldiers in your facility would leave on Feb. 11 (plus or minus a few days).”
The guardsmen were deployed to more than 500 nursing homes and long-term residential care facilities to help the nursing staff with routine health screenings, data entry and paperwork in order to free those staff members up to tend to patients during a surge in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations.
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