Dear Residents & Families,
I want to extend my thanks for your thoughts and understanding as we do our best to protect your loved ones and our staff. It has been a busy few weeks.
COVID-19 TESTING
As of today, we have no new positive test results for COVID-19 in our Bainbridge Senior Living communities. In our most recent rounds of testing all staff and residents at both Madison House and Wyatt House received negative test results.
Madison House will remain under our active COVID protocol until Friday, Oct. 2nd. The Department of Health is recommending that Wyatt House staff and residents undergo a second round of testing this Friday (just to be extra cautious). We can relax restrictions at Wyatt assuming the second round of tests all come back negative. We are hopefully that we can get those results back by Monday. In the meantime, visitation at Wyatt will remain suspended and all meals will be delivered to rooms individually.
We continue to actively monitor for symptoms or circumstances which match those related to the novel coronavirus.
COMMUNITY UPDATE
Kitsap Public Health reported a new COVID-19-associated death in our county day before yesterday (Sept 28th). The community member who died was an older adult (65 or older) with underlying health conditions. Thirteen COVID-related deaths have been reported in Kitsap County to date.
While the pandemic continues to affect our daily lives, autumn brings with it another unwanted visitor – the flu. The presence of both viruses could put more people at risk. While we don’t yet have a vaccine to prevent COVID-19, we do have one to prevent flu. Washington State Health Officer, Dr. Kathy Lofy says, “We should all get a flu vaccine now to help protect ourselves and our communities.”
Thank you again for your continued patience and support. We can't wait to get together again!
