{"id":163942,"date":"2026-04-12T16:38:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T16:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/163942\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T16:38:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T16:38:13","slug":"erie-shores-healthcare-relaxes-masking-mandates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/163942\/","title":{"rendered":"Erie Shores HealthCare relaxes masking mandates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Erie Shores HealthCare in Leamington is relaxing masking rules.<\/p>\n<p>Hospital officials say declining respiratory illness activity has allowed them to scale back masking requirements.<\/p>\n<p>Staff and physicians don\u2019t have to wear them when within two metres of a patient anymore.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, it\u2019ll be left up to the health care worker to decide when to wear one.<\/p>\n<p>Patients are asked to wear a mask when outside their bed space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Erie Shores HealthCare in Leamington is relaxing masking rules. Hospital officials say declining respiratory illness activity has allowed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":163943,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137],"class_list":["post-163942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}