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ICYMI: Families Reunited At Commack Nursing Home After 1-Year

Check out this story from earlier in the week on Commack Patch.

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Edith Mishkin (center), a resident of Gurwin Jewish Nursing & Rehabilitation Center in Commack, is visited by her daughters Elise Rubin and Barbara Koenig. The sisters visited their mother every day during the pandemic outside her ground-floor window.
Edith Mishkin (center), a resident of Gurwin Jewish Nursing & Rehabilitation Center in Commack, is visited by her daughters Elise Rubin and Barbara Koenig. The sisters visited their mother every day during the pandemic outside her ground-floor window. (Gurwin Healthcare System)

COMMACK, NY — Families were reunited with their loved ones living at Gurwin Jewish Nursing & Rehabilitation Center in Commack on Tuesday after more than a year since the start of the coronavirus pandemic shutdowns, the nursing home announced in a news release.

More than 40 family reunions were celebrated. Tuesday marked the first visitors to be allowed inside the facility since the New York State Department of Health (DOH) closed all nursing homes in March 2020 at the beginning of the COVID-19 shutdown. Approximately 360 residents are currently living at Gurwin Jewish Nursing & Rehabilitation Center.

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