New guidance was recently released for long term care facilities. This new guidance requires testing of unboosted employees at a frequency determined by the healthcare transmission rate. At this time, we are testing all vaccinated but unboosted staff twice weekly....
COVID-19 Family Update 03/08/2022
Yesterday we tested all of our residents that were previously exposed to the positive employee. All of those results returned today and they are negative. We are thankful for this! As a reminder to visitors, masking regulations have not changed in healthcare settings....
COVID-19 Family Update 03/03/2022
We were recently notified that one of our team members tested positive for COVID-19. This employee was in our facility on Monday and Tuesday this week and had contact with residents on 2 East, 4 East and 4 West. The patients/residents that have had a close contact...
COVID-19 Family Update 03/01/2022
As of today, 3/1/2022, we have been cleared of our COVID-19 outbreak status. While we do not have active COVID-19 within our facility is does not change the prevention strategies we have been following to keep our residents and staff members safe and healthy. If you...
COVID-19 Family Update 02/15/2022
Our results from yesterday’s testing all returned negative for residents and staff. However, today we identified a resident who developed symptoms and subsequently tested positive for COVID-19. We currently have 4 remaining recovering residents that are positive...
COVID-19 Family update 02/11/2022
We have received the results of yesterday’s round of staff/resident testing for COVID-19. We are happy to report that all test results have returned negative. We continue to have residents recover and graduate from COVID-19 isolation. We continue to be in consultation...
COVID-19 Family Update 02/08/2022
We have received the results of yesterday’s round of testing. We have identified 3 additional residents that are positive with COVID-19. These residents reside on 3 East and 4 West. There were no additional positive staff members in this round of testing. Thankfully,...
COVID-19 Family Update 02/04/2022
We have received the results of yesterday’s round of testing. We have identified 5 additional residents that are COVID-19 positive. These residents reside on 3 East, 4 East and 4 West. There were no additional positive staff members. We remain in consultation with the...
COVID-19 Family Update 02/01/2022
We have received the results of yesterday’s COVID-19 testing for residents and staff. At this time, we have identified 4 cases in residents on our 4 West unit. We also have 5 employees that have tested positive for COVID-19 since our last communication. Overall, our...
COVID-19 Family Update 01/28/2022
The heartbreaking news is that our facility is currently in outbreak status, we have positive residents in all areas of our facility, except rehab. Our most recent testing results have returned, identifying 4 additional positive staff. We also were able to identify 12...