Chicago-area woman, 92, survived the Holocaust, life behind the Iron Curtain and then the pandemic in a nursing home. Her daughter is desperate to visit her.

But visitation policies at local facilities run the gamut. One nursing home chain in the area, BRIA health services, is following CMS guidelines by allowing outdoor and indoor visits, but encouraging outdoor visits as much as possible, and limiting both the number of indoor visits per resident, and visitors in the facility at one time, said Natalie Bauer Luce, spokeswoman for BRIA.