The federal government’s sweeping plan to mandate vaccines for health care workers at Medicare and Medicaid facilities is intended to curb the surging Delta variant and to address the slow pace of COVID-19 vaccinations. The Department of Health and Human Services’ Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will issue a similar rule requiring vaccinations for workers in most healthcare facilities that receive reimbursement,…

We appreciate your understanding and cooperation with our masking and social distancing protocols for our facility. Important news! As discussed in our letter last week, the positivity rate in our county is increasing. As of this week CDC as listed the community transmission rate at a high or red level.  Please see https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#county-view As a result we have made changes…

We appreciate your understanding and cooperation with our masking and social distancing protocols for our facility. Please remember to keep your mask on at all times during visits inside and outdoors, even if you are vaccinated.  Please come to our first floor location if do not want to stay in your loved one’s room for the visit.  Our visitation guidelines…

We appreciate your understanding and cooperation with our masking and social distancing protocols for our facility. Please remember to keep your mask on at all times during visits inside and outdoors, even if you are vaccinated.  Please come to our first floor location if do not want to stay in your loved one’s room for the visit.  Our visitation guidelines…

As always, we appreciate that you entrust us with the care of your loved ones. We appreciate your understanding and cooperation with our recent implementation of masking and social distancing protocols for our facility. In the past couple of weeks, there has been a lot of activity on the vaccine front. We are anticipating regulatory and guidance changes in the…

We appreciate that you are entrusting us with the care of your loved ones. We also appreciate your understanding and cooperation with our recent implementation of masking and social distancing protocols for our facility. Our heightened concerns have been enacted due to concerns about the Delta variant of COVID-19. We will continue to monitor the variant and update our practices…

Good news!  All resident tests from 5th floor and all staff tests for the week were negative!   Green zones open for visits in accordance with our visitation policy are 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th.   4th floor zone for new admissions, hospital returns is yellow. We have implemented masking and social distancing protocols for our facility due to rising concerns about…

This is a follow-up from our last letter related to visitation.   After further testing, the DOH determined that the result from the resident was not a true positive, so you will see a change in our numbers below removing that case. We proactively continued with our completed base line testing on all of our residents and staff and very happy…

We found out yesterday that a resident of our facility who was transferred to a local hospital, tested positive for COVID 19.  As a result, we are following our protocol and suspending general visits in accordance with our visitation policy.  Compassionate care/end of life visits will still be held in accordance with policy. Testing for all of our residents and…

The rise of the Delta variant of COVID-19 is a real concern. The best way to limit one’s chances of getting the variant is to be fully vaccinated. According to a study by The New England Journal of Medicine, the effectiveness of full vaccination against the variant is about 90 percent. We encourage all residents, staff, family members and volunteers…