MEMO: Fraser Health Home Support Worker Tests Positive for COVID-19
Menno Place Memo
To: All Residents, Staff & Families of Menno Place
Re: Use an Abundance of Caution on Campus — Fraser Health Home Support Worker Tests Positive for COVID-19
Date: Friday, August 21, 2020 6:30pm
On Friday, August 21st, 2020 Menno Place was notified that a Fraser Health Home Support Worker tested positive for COVID-19.
The individual has worked in both Primrose Gardens and Terrace West Independent Living Apartments within the last two weeks. Public Health has NOT declared a COVID-19 outbreak at Menno Place.
There is no cause for alarm at this time. We are informing you out of an abundance of caution. NO Menno Place staff or residents have tested positive for COVID-19 at this time.
Over the weekend, we encourage residents of Primrose Gardens and Terrace West to stay in their suites as much as possible, to wear masks whenever they are in indoor or outdoor public spaces, and to continue to wash or sanitize their hands regularly.
Meals will go back to being served in the apartment suites, and all hair appointments will be cancelled.
We ask that Registered Visitors of Primrose Gardens and Terrace West refrain from visiting or making deliveries to the campus this weekend unless absolutely necessary. Security will be on the premises to remind visitors.
We hope to have an update for you on Monday, August 24 or if Public Health advises us differently. Let’s continue to do as Dr. Henry asks and be kind, be calm, and be safe.
Karen Biggs
CEO, Menno Place
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*UPDATE* The residents who may have been exposed (and their families) have already been notified.
Visits – Menno Home and Menno Hospital
We are pleased to share that visits for residents in long-term care and their loved ones are going very well. Our Visitation Hosts received Orientation Training to ensure that they are well trained in: transporting residents, infection control protocol, educating and screening visitors on infection control protocol, dementia behaviours that may arise during transport or visits, COVID-19 stress and the emotional toll on families/loved ones as well as expectations for the visit.
Our Vistation Hosts, Nikki and Isaiah are facilitating six visits per day and have facilitated 34 safe visits. Visits are 30 minutes long. Families and spouses are grateful to see their loved one in person, understanding that it will be an odd visit with social distancing and their own mask factoring into the infection control protocols.
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