Valley Manor Nursing Home reopens
EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – Following a precautionary setback, Valley Manor Nursing Home reopened to the public Monday, Administrator Doreen Hasenbeck said.
After being closed by COVID-19 a year earlier, the facility reopened briefly only to shut down after two days because a resident tested “positive” for the virus.
“We ended up isolating her for 14 days. We have to count it as a COVID positive case; however, every entity that we have spoken to feels like it was a false positive, but we could not definitely prove that,” Hasenbeck said. “It would have been better if we could have definitely proved (a false positive). She hasn’...