Minnesota Reopens Adult Day Centers For People With Disabilities

The Minnesota Department of Human Services (DHS), the state agency that oversees disability services, issued new guidance allowing thousands of adults who live in group homes and other residential care facilities to attend day centers across the state. Centers have been closed since late March under restrictions meant to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

According to Human Services Commissioner Jodi Harpstead, the decision was driven by encouraging signs that infection-control protocols are working in group homes and that significantly fewer residents with disabilities have caught the virus since early May. The state Department of Health cited the unintended . . .