What is the status of nursing home / skilled care center visits in your area? Are vaccinated people allowed in to visit their loved ones?

Get jabbed at your own risk. It doesn't prevent you from catching covid, and it doesn't prevent you from transmitting covid. It's an experiment.

In IL at my dad’s facility all residents and staff received the 2nd shot this past weekend. We can now visit with some restrictions:
1 we have to pass screening test including temperature check
2: we must stay at his apartment
3: we must stay masked and gloved at all times they are providing KN95 mask and gloves
4: we must maintain social distancing
5: we must not eat or drink anything while in the apartment
6: 1hr visit
7: 1 person at a time
8: 1 visit per week by appointment
I am not complaining at least I get to visit him now 😊

It's hard to hear about other regions doing better with vaccinations but don't worry, they'll get to you sooner than you think. And where I am (Ontario Canada) we are just now celebrating that they have appointments available for over 80's who live outside of a facility, so from my perspective you are way ahead.

I just received an email from my mother's place saying they were allowing visits outdoors once again. I didn't know they'd stopped them, but then again I don't do those visits because my mother can't see or hear me from eight feet away...through a plastic divider...with a mask on. She's virtually blind and extremely deaf.

The entire community (minus a couple of patients including my mother) has been vaccinated, so I don't really know why they aren't opening things up more. I suppose it'd be better to have all the visitors vaccinated as well, but California isn't vaccinating anyone under 65 yet to my knowledge. At the rate we're going, that won't happen for a few months yet.

The nursing home gets to make the rules. It's their place, so their rules.

I don’t think elected officials should be weighing in at all. My state elected official put his/her mom in a hotel before closing down and packing sick patients into nursing homes last year. This is a medical issue and should be addressed by medical professionals who say the first vaccine protects at a rate of 84% and the 2nd at 95% (JHU). People need to use common sense. If my mom is vaccinated, she won’t get covid. If I’m not vaccinated, I may get covid (with a 98+% cure rate) but I won’t be catching it from her.

Here in Oregon, they are pretty strict. Dad just got out of skilled nursing. Been there since May. I was only allowed window visits the entire time. We moved him to memory care. They allowed us in long enough to move things to his room before they transferred him over.

I am in Vermont my dad has had both shots of course in the nursing home they begin indoor visits by appointment only in a small room with a glass divider. My shot I will get next week regardless you can still go visit in this little room which isn’t much different than the outside visit through a screen they used to have. I just want to be able to walk in and hang out in his room I’ve never even been inside the home yet as he moved during Covid. I guess this is a small step towards Some type of progress

In mom's assisted living in Illinois, 98% of the residents have been vaccinated, but staff keeps bringing in positive cases. They lock down residents for 2 weeks after a positive staff member. Even during a time when there were no positives, they would only allow 30 min visits in a side room. Never allowed to visit mom's room.
We complained about the lockdown and they claimed that the CDC requires that or the facility loses it's license. Is that true?

There is such a hodge podge of rules and practices out there, I really wish you had some clearer guidance from your elected officials. Where I live we have allowed "essential caregivers" to visit on site for many months already as long as they have had a negative covid test within the last week.

It's a checkerboard out there still and much of it depends on the facility and its status. They may have vaccinated all of their residents who are eligible and their staff but that staff still has to go home and interact with their family members, many of whom are not yet eligible for vaccination. It may also depend on if a facility currently has any residents who are positive for Covid. Generally all states are handling this a bit differently and within those perimeters, all facilities are setting their own guidelines to protect their residents, resident families and staff and staff families as best possible. It's a complex situation.