Dr. Joann Buonomano, chief medical officer for Greater Seacoast Community Health, said televisits by phone or video will be one enduring benefit of this pandemic. [Courtesy photo]

Editor’s note: This article is part of the Rebuilding America series, which explores the reopening of the nation and the Seacoast following the shutdown caused by the novel coronavirus.

PORTSMOUTH – Health care workers have had to make significant changes to the way they deliver services in light of COVID-19 and many of those changes will become the new normal going forward.

While infection control and disinfection have always been mainstays of any health care facility, COVID-19 forced a ramping up of sanitary practices and also resulted in the isolation of patients, both for their own safety, and to keep them from infecting others.

Nursing homes and assisted living facilities have been hard hit because of the proximity of patients to each other. Visitors were quickly banned, except in some end-of-life cases at some facilities.

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