At this time, we have 8 positive residents that were previously vaccinated from 4 East that have been transferred to our dedicated COVID-19 Unit. We have been in consultation with the CDC on management of our COVID-19 outbreak. On Saturday, we will be testing all...

We made it 20 months but today we are in the unenviable position of having two COVID-19 positive residents that have been moved to our dedicated COVID-19 unit. The complete round of staff/resident testing from Thursday and Friday returned negative. However, we...

Yesterday, we completed our 1st round of resident and staff testing and sent 345 samples off to the lab. We have received all 345 results back today and they are negative. We have been continuing to swab the remainder of staff that were unable to make it to...

Yesterday, we were informed of a clinical contracted staff member that had been in our facility seeing select residents that tested positive for COVID-19. This contracted staff member was vaccinated. The residents and their roommates that were in contact with this...

All results from resident testing last week returned negative. Additionally, all mandatory testing completed yesterday have also returned negative this morning. We will be holding another mandatory testing clinic on Thursday this week, as well as retest residents...

We were notified of a vaccinated clinical employee that was in our facility on Wednesday that subsequently developed symptoms overnight and tested positive on Thursday. This person has been excluded from work for quarantine. We have been in contact with our liaison at...

All testing of residents and staff that took place on Wednesday has returned negative. We have been in consultation with the CDC and will complete another round of staff testing next Thursday 10/7. This round of testing will be for staff that were in contact with the...

We continue to provide mandatory testing for all unvaccinated staff members. This continues to be optional for all vaccinated staff members. Yesterday afternoon we were informed that a fully vaccinated staff member that participated in this round of testing, tested...

We have begun testing our unvaccinated staff members based on county transmission rate in accordance with our licensing requirements. Androscoggin county is considered an area of high transmission. High transmission areas require twice weekly testing of all staff that...

We received the remaining 89 swabs from this week’s testing and those have all returned negative. We have been in contact with our outbreak investigator at the CDC and our outbreak will be cleared on September 19th. We have resumed visitation throughout the facility...