We have found that what you hear in the news about Omicron is true! We are in the unenviable position of having COVID-19 on all units within our facility. The increase in transmissibility of the Omicron variant is present in our facility and we have seen an uptick in...
COVID-19 Family Update 01-22-2022
We have received the results of yesterday’s testing. We have identified 7 additional residents from 3 East, that are positive for COVID-19. At this time, there are 14 positive residents from 3 East and 3 positive residents from 4 East. Staff testing from 3 East has...
Maine Leader Appointed to Nursing Home Administrators Licensing Board
Congratulations to our President and System VP of Post Acute Care, Philip Hickey, MHA, MBA, MLHNA! Philip was recently appointed by Governor Janet Mills to the state’s Nursing Home Administrators Licensing Board. The board’s primary purpose is to ensure...
COVID-19 Family Update 01-20-2022
We have completed another round of staff and resident testing for 3 East and 4 East. We anticipate having those results back in the next 24-48 hours. Since our last testing we did identify through symptom screening and subsequent testing, 1 additional resident from 4...
COVID-19 Family Update 01-18-2022
Our testing results have returned, and we have identified 3 asymptomatic positive residents on 3 East. Our testing also revealed 1 positive, asymptomatic staff member on 4 East. This afternoon we also identified 2 additional residents on 4 East that were tested due to...
COVID-19 Family Update 01-15-2022
We have received the results of our last round of testing. This round of testing included testing residents and staff on 3 East, 3 West, 4 West and our Rehab unit due to potential exposures. The residents on these units have all tested negative. We detected 2...
COVID-19 Family Update 01/12/2022
We have received the results of yesterday’s testing and are happy to report that none of our residents that were tested are positive. Through our testing and symptom screening process we have identified additional staff that are positive. These 2 new staff cases are...
COVID-19 Family Update 01/10/2022
We were made aware of an additional unrelated case of COVID-19 in one of our clinical team members that works with patients on our Rehab unit. This individual was last in the facility the morning of 01/07/2022 and subsequently developed symptoms. In consultation with...
COVID-19 Family Update 01/06/2022
Our results of testing from Tuesday came back this morning. All residents on 4 West are negative, as well as the staff working in that area. We were able to identify through testing, a non-clinical staff member that tested positive for COVID-19. This staff member does...
COVID-19 Family Update 01/03/2022
We continue to have staff test positive for COVID-19 due to outside exposures. Many of these have had no contact with residents or were not in the facility during their infectious period due to quarantine guidelines. Today, we were informed of a clinical contracted...