Dear Residents & Families,
Thank you for your support as we do everything we can to protect your loved ones.
COVID-19 TESTING
As of today, we have no positive cases of COVID-19 in our Bainbridge Senior Living communities. We are actively monitoring for symptoms or circumstances which match those related to COVID-19. Move-ins are being welcomed with safety protocols in place, including quarantine.
COMMUNITY UPDATE
CNN
reports
that the United States has 4% of the world's population but 25% of its COVID-19 cases. On average, more than 1000 people have died every day since the first known death from coronavirus in February. In less than five months, more Americans have died of the pandemic than in all of World War I. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, just 3% of coronavirus deaths occur in people under 40 years old, nearly 80% have occurred in people over 65.
There are many good sources for tracking the spread of the virus.
Fast Company
points to
the
COVID-19 Tracker
from Microsoft’s Bing search engine as one of the best. It has at-a-glance displays of country cases, outbreak maps, charts that allow quick regional comparisons, county by county data, and the curve of cases over time.
Kitsap County remains in Phase 2 of the
Safe Start plan
. “High-risk populations” which include residents of long-term care facilities can “resume public interactions with physical distancing” under Phase 4. As a reminder: new admissions, re-admissions, and re-entries -- or residents who may otherwise have been exposed to the public -- are evaluated on a case-by-case basis, and
require a 14-day in-room quarantine or evaluation exception
from our internal Infection Control Officer.
