Dear Family and Friends of South Cove Manor:

While the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day is typically a quiet and short work week, that is definitely not the case at South Cove Manor this year. 

We are conducting what we hope will be our final round of “outbreak testing” for residents and staff today and tomorrow. Provided that all results come back as negative, we will have reached the threshold of 14 days with no new positive cases of COVID-19 in both our resident and staff population.  

If that does happen, we will be lifting the quarantine on our building effective on Wednesday, December 30th.

It will be our plan to resume in person visits on Wednesday, December 30th - our Activities staff will be contacting all family members about scheduled visitations within the next 24 hours. In addition, we will be welcoming our hairdresser back into the building tomorrow, to begin catching up on a backlog of appointments. Please understand that these plans are subject to change if we identify a new positive case in our current round of testing.

Today also marks another milestone in our fight against COVID-19. All three of the residents that had been identified as positive for the virus have officially recovered, and have returned to their rooms as of today. Our COVID positive unit has been closed, and it is our hope that we will not have to re-open it again. The room will be cleaned and disinfected over the next two days, and will be ready to host our in-person visits on Wednesday.

This week we will also be registering staff and residents to receive the COVID vaccine if they chose to receive it. Tomorrow, we will be gathering information from staff and completing registration forms with them. In addition, we are already working on gathering the needed resident information for the registration process, and our staff will be contact family members to discuss the vaccine and obtain your consent. All of this work is in preparation for our first vaccine administration day next Wednesday, January 6th. In anticipation of questions about the vaccine, I have included connection instructions to a ZOOM meeting that is scheduled for Tuesday night December 29th from 7 PM to 8PM. This meeting is offered free of charge, and it is NOT specific to South Cove Manor. The call will be conducted in English only. This meeting is being conducted for family members of nursing home residents from across Massachusetts, and will be led by Dr. Asif Merchant, a Medical Director at several facilities in the Metro West area. Dr. Merchant and his team will answer questions about the efficacy and safety of the vaccine. Please feel free to join the meeting if you are able.

Topic: Covid 19 vaccine Q&A with Dr Merchant for families

Time: Dec 29, 2020 07:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

Meeting ID: 972 7054 5972

Passcode: 717487

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Meeting ID: 972 7054 5972

Passcode: 717487

Thank you again for placing your trust in South Cove Manor.

親愛的中華頤養院家人和朋友:

聖誕節和元旦之間的一周通常是一個安靜而短暫的工作週，但今年中華頤養院絕對不是這樣。

我們今天和明天將進行我們希望這是最後一輪的院民和員工“爆發測試”。假設所有結果都為陰性，我們將達到14天的門檻，在我們的院民和工作人員中都沒有新的COVID-19陽性病例。如果沒有新的陽性病例，我們將在12月30日（星期三）起取隔離。

我們計劃在12月30日（星期三）恢復親自探訪-我們的活動組人員將在接下來的24小時內與所有家庭成員聯繫，以安排計劃的探訪。此外，歡迎我們的理髮師明天回到大樓，開始預約理髮工作。請理解，如果我們測試中發有新的陽性極案例，這些計劃可能會發生變化。

今天也標誌著我們與COVID-19作戰的又一個里程碑。所有被確定對該病毒呈陽性的三名院民已正式康復，並於今天返回房間。我們的COVID陽性部門已關閉，我們希望我們不必再次使用它。房間將在接下來的兩天內進行清潔和消毒，並準備在周三主持我們的現場探訪。

本週，我們將對員工和院民進行疫苗接種註冊，以便他們選擇接種COVID疫苗。明天，我們將從員工那裡收集信息並幫助他們完成註冊表格。此外，我們已經在努力收集登記過程中所需的院民信息，我們的工作人員將與家人聯繫，討論疫苗並徵得您的同意。所有這些工作都為我們在1月6日下星期三的第一個疫苗接種日做準備。由於對疫苗有疑問，我在ZOOM會議中附上了連接說明，該會議計劃於12月29日星期二晚上7點至晚上8點舉行。該會議是免費提供的，並且不專門針對中華頤養院。通話將僅以英語進行。這次會議是為馬薩諸塞州各地的療養院院民的家庭成員舉行的，會議將由大都會西區多個設施的醫療總監Asif Merchant博士主持。 Merchant博士及其團隊將回答有關疫苗功效和安全性的問題。如果可以，請加入會議。

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