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Dear Families, Here we are, another week closer to warmer, spring-like weather. Great news for us all to get back outside and enjoy the fresh air and some sunshine. As we have mentioned before in these updates, our outside visits remain the recommended means of visitation for nursing home residents and families, per the CDC.… Continue Reading Continue reading
Dear Families, We hope this email finds you healthy and as optimistic as we are about the continuing decline in COVID cases in our surrounding community. Considering these encouraging numbers, we will begin to take a slightly different approach with these weekly email updates to you, focusing more on recreation activities taking place in our… Continue Reading Continue reading
Dear Families, At long last – we have new guidance from the CDC on nursing home visitation! This new guidance reflects updates to address the vaccination of residents and individuals from the community, as well as the decrease in community spread and changes to visitation during an “outbreak.” While the CDC released their new guidance… Continue Reading Continue reading
Click below for an update on our visitation plan, based on CDC guidance, effective 3/16/2021: Visitation Guidance (MA)… Continue reading
Dear Families, It looks like we will see an early burst of spring this week. Our goal is to get everyone some fresh air and sunshine this week! Our current COVID status: We have been COVID free in both staff and residents since last week. As you well know, this week marks one year that… Continue Reading Continue reading
Dear Families, As always, we hope this letter finds you safe and healthy as we begin the New Year! Our current CVOID status is 1 newly admitted resident and 1 staff member being out of work for 14 days quarantine. We are very excited that our residents and staff have now had the opportunity… Continue Reading Continue reading
COVID-19 Prev ProtocolsPostVaccinationLTCFamily Comm_2.23.21 Please see the link for the Massachusetts Visitation Guidelines for February 19, 2021 https://athenahealthcare.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/COVID-19-Prev-ProtocolsPostVaccinationLTCFamily-Comm_2.23.21.pdf… Continue reading
Dear Families, As always, we hope this letter finds you safe and healthy. Our current COVID status: We have 2 new admitted residents with positive COVID in our COVID unit. We have two staff members on quarantine leave; they did not have direct contact with the residents in the facility. Vaccination: As you know by… Continue Reading Continue reading
Dear Families, As always, we hope this letter finds you safe and healthy as we begin the New Year! COVID Status We are not in an outbreak. We have no active staff with COVID positive status. Our new admissions who have tested positive for COVID will reside in COVID UNIT until they complete the public… Continue Reading Continue reading
Please see the below for an Update on the COVID-19 Pandemic: Facility Sheet… Continue reading
