COVID-19 Update
Dear Family and Friends of South Cove Manor:

I am writing to provide all of you with an update on our recent round of COVID-19 testing. 

We continue to follow the Massachusetts Department of Public Health’s (DPH) requirements related to testing, which stipulates testing a minimum of 50% of all “staff” members every 14 days. DPH’s definition of “staff” includes all of our employees, all contracted personnel, physicians, nurse practitioners, and any other clinician that has direct contact with any of our residents.

This past Friday and Saturday, November 6th and November 7th, we tested a total of 200 staff members. This morning, we learned that one of those tests came back as positive for COVID-19. The person in question is a nursing school student, that was in our building as part of her clinical rotation. She was last in our building on Tuesday, November 3rd, and had limited contact with first floor residents only.

As a result of this positive test, there are several procedures that we have put in place:

  1. We are currently taking swabs of all first-floor residents and staff that may have been exposed to the positive case;
  2. We will test 100% of all remaining staff and residents this Friday and Saturday, November 13th and 14th;
  3. We will re-test 100% of staff and residents the following Friday and Saturday, November 20th and 21st
  4.  All “non-essential” staff will not be allowed in the building until November 24th.
  5. 1st Floor residents will be required to quarantine in their rooms through November 23rd. Communal dining and any group activities will also be on hold through November 23rd.
  6. Visitation for all 1st Floor residents will stop immediately. Our activities staff will be in contact with all family members that may be affected by this. Provided that our follow-up testing produces 100% negative results, visitation for first floor residents will resume on November 24th. Virtual visits will continue to be an option for all residents.

I will continue to provide updates to all of you with information related to this as soon as I receive it. Please feel free to reach out to us with any questions that you may have.
  
Thank you again for placing your trust in South Cove Manor.
Sincerely,

William J. Graves
President & CEO
COVID-19更新
親愛的中華頤養院家人和朋友:

我正在寫信給大家，有關我們最近一輪COVID-19測試的更新。

我們繼續遵循馬薩諸塞州公共衛生部（DPH）與測試有關的要求，該要求規定每14天至少對所有 “職員” 進行50％的測試。 DPH對 “職員” 的定義包括我們的所有員工，所有簽約人員，醫生，護士從業人員以及與我們的任何院民有直接聯繫的任何其他臨床醫生。

在過去的星期五和星期六，11月6日和11月7日，我們測試了200名員工。
今天早上，我們得知其中一項測試對COVID-19呈陽性反應。呈陽性反應的人是一名護校學生，這是她臨床輪換的一部分，在我們大樓內。她是11月3日（星期二）在我們大樓中的最後一人，僅與一樓院民保持有限接觸。

這項陽性反應測試的結果是，我們已經制定了一些程序：

  1. 我們目前正在對可能暴露於陽性病例的所有一樓院民和員工進行測試；
  2. 我們將在這個星期五11月13和星期六11月14日測試所有剩餘員工和院民的100％；
  3. 我們將在下一個星期五和星期六，11月20日和21日重新測試100％的員工和院民
  4. 到11月24日，所有 “非必要” 人員都不得進入大樓。
  5. 1樓院民必須在11月23日之前在他們的房間中隔離。公共用餐和任何團體活動也將在11月23日舉行。
  6. 所有一樓院民的參觀將立即停止。我們的活動人員將與可能受到此影響的所有家庭成員保持聯繫。如果我們的跟踪測試產生100％的負面結果，那麼一層院民的訪問將在11月24日恢復。虛擬訪問將繼續是所有院民的選擇。

我一收到就將繼續向所有人提供與此相關的更新。如果您有任何疑問，請隨時與我們聯繫。
  
再次感謝您對中華頤養院的信任。
真誠的

威廉·J·格雷夫斯
總裁兼首席執行官
(617) 423-0590

South Cove Manor at Quincy Point has built a 34 year legacy of excellence, repeatedly achieving the highest quality ratings from both the Commonwealth and nationally, and has been named as one of the country’s top nursing centers year after year by US News & World Report.