Dear Madrona family and friends,
Thank you for your continued support and understanding as we work to keep your loved ones safe.
As of today, we have no positive or suspected cases of COVID-19 at Madrona House or any of our Bainbridge Senior Living communities.
TESTING UPDATE
Throughout this crisis, the Department of Health and the Department of Social and Health Services have issued guidance recommending the implementation of numerous COVID-19 prevention and control measures. Recently, the Secretary of Health announced that assisted living facilities with memory care units must offer COVID-19 tests to all memory care residents and staff by June 26th, and to administer tests to consenting residents (i.e. through their healthcare POA).
Here are the details on how Bainbridge Senior Living plans to implement this order at Madrona House.
WHO:
The tests will be administered to all consenting staff and consenting memory care residents. IMPORTANT: We will be working with families and designated healthcare POA’s to obtain consent
in writing.
No tests will be administered without explicit consent.
WHAT:
The tests are provided by DOH at no cost
WHEN:
Madrona House plans to conduct testing (after securing consent) during the week of June 15
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WHERE:
These tests will be conducted on-site by our nursing staff
WHY:
DSHS has issued the following statement, “This testing will help show the scope and magnitude of COVID-19 infections in [assisted living] facilities and help inform COVID-19 prevention and control efforts to limit transmission among residents and staff.”
Because you may have further questions about this testing, we are setting up a Zoom Q&A session scheduled for Thursday, June 11
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at 11:30 a.m. PST. If you would like to attend this session, please look for a Zoom invite in your Inbox which we’ll send out on Wednesday, June 10th. The session will be recorded for those unable to attend.
