April 1st, 2020
Dear Madrona Family,
Well, it’s April Fools Day. I had fun waking my kids up early and telling them that school was back in session! Oh, a mother’s fun. They went quickly back to sleep and are enjoying the lack of schedule.
I promise not to deliver any jokes to you all today!
So, here is our Wednesday update:
We continue to be COVID-19 free,
however
today we were alerted that a member of our caregiving team who worked yesterday has two household members who came down with COVID-like symptoms this morning.
Here is what we know and what we are doing:
- The staff member worked on floors 1 & 2 only
- The staff member was screened prior to shift and did not have any symptoms (temp, sore throat, cough). The staff member also feels fine today, but is now in quarantine
- To be on the safe side we are doing an extra deep clean of any and all areas where this staff member worked
- The staff member in question is getting tested today. We expect to have the results of that test within 4-7 days
- We are moving to room-service only dining in assisted living effective immediately until we have confirmation of negative test results.
- We are asking all assisted living residents to self-quarantine while we await test results
- Madrona’s Director of Nursing, Denise will be calling the staff member for daily health updates
- All Madrona staff are wearing masks made by the island community and we have masks available for residents if they would like to wear them. As a reminder, these masks are most effective at keeping the wearer from spreading a virus
- We will begin taking daily temps on all assisted living residents (we have been taking daily temps of memory care residents for several weeks)
- We will provide daily updates on this situation until it is resolved
For now, it is our expectation that the current in-room quarantine will last 4-7 days. We could extend that to a full 14 days, should circumstances change.
Thanks again for your support and understanding.
With gratitude,
Morgan Rohrbach
