Dear Family and Friends of South Cove Manor:
I am writing to provide you with additional news about our response to the recent positive staff cases that I had shared with all of you yesterday.
Yesterday afternoon, our clinical leaders spoke in depth with our Department of Public Health Epidemiologist to discuss our next steps. As a result of that conversation, South Cove is in the process of taking the following steps:
o Yesterday, December 5th:
- We canceled all pending in person visits with residents until further notice
- We halted communal dining
- We initiated in-room quarantines for all residents that were potentially exposed to the positive staff
o Today, December 6th:
- We are testing of all residents that had contact with any of the four positive staff members
- We are pre-emptively converting our Rehabilitation room to our COVID-19 Positive unit. In the event that residents test positive for the virus, they will be moved to that unit to be cared for. As a reminder, we have established 3 separate teams of clinical staff to care for any residents that test positive. Those staff members have been notified that we are moving forward with preparing our COVID -19 positive unit.
o Tomorrow, December 7th:
- We are testing 100% of our staff members
o Tuesday, December 8th:
- We are testing 100% of residents
In addition to the steps outlined above, other actions will be implemented based on the results of testing that will be conducted over the next few days. Obviously, this is a very fluid situation, and future decisions will be shared with all of you once we implement them.
It is our hope that we will not ever have to utilize our COVID-19 positive unit, but it would be foolish of us not to prepare for that possibility.
Thank you again for placing your trust in South Cove Manor.
