Dear Family and Friends of South Cove Manor:
Over the past week, we have been involved in “outbreak testing protocol,” which involves testing 100% of our staff and residents every three days. I am happy to report, that over the past week, we have not identified any new positive cases. As a result, we will be able to re-open to in-person visitation, beginning tomorrow, May 6th.
As a reminder, I have included our current visitation policies below:
1) Resident visits will now be held on each floor
- Visits will be offered for a maximum of 45 minutes at a time
- There will be two visitation stations available in each activity room that can accommodate up to 4 visitors each.
- On the second and third floors, there will be an additional visitation station in the elevator lobby area that can accommodate up to 2 visitors each.
- Visits will no longer need to be scheduled. Visits may occur on any day, and any time within the following schedule:
- beginning at 9:15 AM, and ending at 12:15 PM;
- beginning at 1:00 PM, and ending at 5:00 PM;
- beginning at 6:00 PM, and ending at 7:00 PM.
- If all visitation spaces are in use, then visitors will have to wait for a space to become available.
- Visitors will be screened as they are now. Binax Now tests will be offered to all visitors. Education about how to safely visit will be provided to the visitors while the results of the Binax Now test are processing. Visitors will be given a surgical mask before each visit. These masks are required to be worn throughout the visit. Residents will also be required to wear a face mask throughout the visit.
- Visitors will be required to perform hand hygiene before and after each visit
- Once screened, visitors will be given an assigned visitation space.
- Visitors will then proceed DIRECTLY to the visitation space.
- South Cove staff will transport the resident to the visitation space.
- South Cove staff members will inform visitors when their allotted time for departure has come. Once the visitors have left the visitation space, the resident’s C.N.A. will sanitize the visitation space.
2) In-room visits
- Residents that are fully vaccinated may have in-room visitation if BOTH of the following conditions are met:
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Resident’s roommate is also fully vaccinated;
- Visitors for the resident are fully vaccinated
- Visitors will be asked to sign a log certifying that they are fully vaccinated, and be asked to provide the date they received the final dose of the vaccine.
- Visitors will be required to perform hand hygiene before and after each visit
- There will be no time limit for these visits
- Social distancing is NOT required during these visits, but masks MUST be worn by all visitors and residents.
No food or drink may be consumed during the visit, regardless of the type of visit. As such, we will ask all visitors to respect the resident’s mealtimes and leave the building while residents are eating.
I will continue to keep you updated as this process progresses.
Thank you again for placing your trust in South Cove Manor.
