{"id":59715,"date":"2020-04-06T01:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-06T09:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/bartlett-regional-hospital-adopts-universal-masking\/"},"modified":"2020-04-06T18:53:05","modified_gmt":"2020-04-07T02:53:05","slug":"bartlett-regional-hospital-adopts-universal-masking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/bartlett-regional-hospital-adopts-universal-masking\/","title":{"rendered":"Bartlett Regional Hospital adopts universal masking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All visitors to Bartlett Regional Hospital will be required to wear a face covering and wear it at all times, according to a release from the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>As of Tuesday, April 7, visitors without masks won&rsquo;t be allowed to enter the hospital, according to BRH. Patients will be strongly encouraged to wear homemade or ear-loop masks provided by BRH.<\/p>\n<p>Both the Centers for Disease Control and the state of Alaska now recommend wearing masks to help prevent the spread of COVID-19. Masks can reduce the release of respiratory droplets into the air when someone speaks, coughs or sneezes, including by people who have COVID-19 but no symptoms, according to BRH.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Visitors without masks won&rsquo;t be allowed to enter the hospital. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":59716,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":9,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-59715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59715"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=59715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}