JMPC Newsletter for the week of September 17, 2021

Updated for the week of September 17, 2021

MESSAGE FROM THE DIRECTOR

Hello Everyone,

We are getting our fall decorating into full swing this week with lots of hay bales, pumpkins, corn stalks, gourds and mums!

Our baby chicks did very well and were no doubt the most spoiled chicks ever!! The residents (and staff) really enjoyed this experience and the ability to interact with them and watch them grow. They were taken to their new forever home on Sept 10 where they will no doubt have lots of fun times on the farm with even more friends!

Enjoy our Balconies: I would encourage you to take your visit outside onto one of the many balconies or garden areas at the Home while the weather is still enjoyable.

Bus: Our new community shopping trips using the Deseronto Transit bus have been a BIG HIT! So many residents are eager to participate in these trips. Unfortunately, we are only able to take 3 individuals who require a wheelchair and then 3 residents who are able to mobilize independently/with a walker. We will do our very best to give everyone an opportunity to participate in a future trip. However, we also wanted to share with you how you could book the bus yourself for a local trip with your loved one. (see information later in this newsletter)

Voting: We are happy to inform you that there will be a polling station here set up by Elections Canada on Sept 20 in MacDonald Hall. Some residents have received their voting cards directly here to the Home. We have worked with Elections Canada as to verifying residents here at the Home inclusive of their address so this is not something that you will need to worry about in terms of a lack of voters card. Staff will ensure that all those wishing to vote are able to cast their ballot.

Reminder for Non Vaccinated Essential Caregivers: You must continue to show proof of having a weekly negative PCR from the assessment center plus have a rapid antigen test here at the Home every week.

Booster Dose: We continue to provide residents with their 3^rd booster dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.

If this is your first time reading our newsletter, I would encourage you to go to this link where you will find the previous newsletters should you wish to view them. Should you ever not want to receive these newsletters, please follow the prompts on the newsletter at the bottom to unsubscribe. Also, if you ever feel that you would prefer to not have a picture of your loved one included in our Family Newsletter, please reach out to Bobbie-Joe at bblackburn@lennox-addington.on.ca or by calling at ext 7224.

Chat with you in our next newsletter on October 1.

Angela Malcolm

Director

General Visiting Hours

General visitors can enter the Home between 10am – 7pm.

If the resident requires assistance to get outside and you are not able to enter the building to pick them up, the visit will need to be pre-booked using our online booking tool - Picktime here.

Given the increase in screening that will be required as we continue to re-open our doors, we do need to initiate no entrance/exit daily between the hours of 12:15 – 12:45pm and 5:15pm- 5:45 pm. This will allow staff to take breaks and complete required tasks associated with the screening and infection control processes.

If you are coming to assist your person during the meal time in their room, or have booked the Gibbard Family Dining Room, please ensure to arrive prior to these times as the door will not be manned during the no entrance/exit hours listed above.

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Vaccination Clinics

Local pharmacies participating in the COVID-19 vaccine pharmacy clinic are now listed on the

KFLA Public Health website.

Provincial Vaccine Booking (for 1^st or 2^nd dose)

Click on this link here to see a listing of various pop-up vaccination clinics and walk in clinics across KFLA at churches and community centres occurring right now.

COVID-19 Testing

for Essential Caregivers Not Fully Vaccinated

Very Important

You are required to have 2 COVID tests each week if you are

not fully vaccinated and enter the Home more than once per week.

You will need your regular COVID swab that you have at a COVID Assessment Centre which you will need to have at some point between Wednesday and Sunday each week. (please do not have your tests on back to back days)

The second swab is the Rapid Antigen Test which will be done at JMPC in our tea room. We will be offering this test on Monday’s, Tuesday’s and Wednesday’s at the times listed below:

10:00am – 7:00pm each day

NOTE: Shift Change will result in delays for non-staff.

Shift change that occurs during testing times are 2:30 and 6:30pm

Exception for Essential Caregivers: If you visit only once per week then you only require the one weekly rapid antigen swab from JMPC on the day of your visit

Should an individual test positive using this Rapid Antigen test, you would need to have a PCR test completed at the Assessment Center to confirm the positive diagnosis.

COVID-19 PCR Testing

for Non Vaccinated or those choosing not to show Proof of Vaccination

You will require an appointment.

You can pre-book your weekly appointment online here.

Greater Napanee COVID-19 Assessment Centre

Westdale campus at 12 Richmond Park Drive, Napanee.

Hours are 8:30-3:30 Monday - Friday.

The link to access your results for this testing is here.

What's New at JMPC

2020-21 Placement of the Year Award

JMPC has taken on a number of co-op students through Napanee District Secondary School to provide them a supportive learning experience in health care.

Students were matched with the Resident Support Aides and helped in the dining rooms, assisted residents with their meals, activities, one to one visits, outdoor visits, zoom visits and more!

This experience has promoted some students to go into health care for their college and university experience!!!

It is truly exciting to be able to inspire the next generation in health care!

Here is the week’s menu for September 20-26

Program

Here is the week’s program schedule from Sept 19 -25 for across the Home and Lilac Knoll specifically.

Absences from the Home

Short Term Outings – Leaving the property for social or other reason but not overnight. This does not need to be booked or approved. However, it is important to note that if the resident is going out with a non-essential caregiver, we will require you to reach out to the charge nurse on the residents floor to arrange a pick up time. Anyone picking up the resident must come into the vestibule and go through the active screening process but do not require COVID testing. Residents who are able to complete these short term outings independently need to ensure they complete the Sign Out Book located just outside the nursing station on the counter.

Temporary Outing – Leaving the property and includes overnight of one or more nights. For these overnight outings, the ministry requires an advanced approval process for these absences. All temporary outings must go through the Manager assigned to the Resident Home Area. This is the form to utilize. Please note that upon residents return from an overnight outing, they must be isolated, have a PCR test and await the results. Upon receiving a negative result they can come out of isolation.

Resident Home Areas

These Resident Home area extensions below will take you to the Charge Nurse who is the RPN on your persons floor. The RPN is a great person to connect with if you have questions related to medications, health status updates, or general resident centered information. The RN Team Leader extension is an option if you are having difficulty accessing your respective home area or have further concerns.

Manager Point of Contact

For general inquiries related to COVID restrictions, overnight absences or to send your vaccination information:

(For absences please contact the charge nurse as outlined above)

Mandatory Training Videos

Training videos are mandatory for you to watch prior to entering the building

A component of the Directives that the Ministry released includes a mandatory requirement for Homes to ensure that Essential Caregivers coming into the Home receive training on putting on and taking off PPE as well as training on effective hand washing. Below are the 2 video clips for you to view. You will be asked to confirm at the screening table that you have watched these 2 videos prior to entering.

Here are short video clips to resources that will help you to understand how to use PPE properly and how to effectively hand wash.

How to put on PPE - https://www.publichealthontario.ca/en/videos/ipac-fullppe-on

How to Handwash - https://www.publichealthontario.ca/en/videos/ipac-handwash

This training needs to be completed prior to your first visit and then monthly thereafter.

Infection Control from the desk of Emily Sarley

From the Centre of Disease Control:

The Possibility of COVID-19 after Vaccination: Breakthrough Infections

The bottom line: COVID-19 vaccines protect people against severe illness, including disease caused by Delta and other variants circulating in the U.S.

COVID-19 vaccines protect people from getting infected and severely ill, and significantly reduce the likelihood of hospitalization and death.
Getting vaccinated is the best way to slow the spread of COVID-19 and to prevent infection by Delta or other variants.
A vaccine breakthrough infection happens when a fully vaccinated person gets infected with COVID-19. People with vaccine breakthrough infections may spread COVID-19 to others.
Even if you are fully vaccinated, if you live in an area with substantial or high transmission of COVID-19, you – as well as your family and community – will be better protected if you wear a mask when you are in indoor public places.
People who are immunocompromised may not always build adequate levels of protection after an initial 2-dose primary mRNA COVID-19 vaccine series. They should continue to take all precautions recommended for unvaccinated people, until advised otherwise by their healthcare professional. Further, CDC recommends that moderately to severely immunocompromised people receive an additional dose of vaccine.

Essential Caregiver Designation

The Ministry of Long Term Care updated visiting policy requires written documentation that supports the essential caregiver designation. As a result, we have created a PDF form that you can open electronically and fill in the blanks. There are a couple of options to return the form to us via email or fax. Alternatively, we will have hard copies of this document available with the screeners at JMPC where you can complete and drop off to them.

Essential Caregivers must submit this form to be approved as an essential caregiver prior to their visit in order to be permitted into the Home.

Should the resident/POA wish to change an essential caregiver, a new form will need to be submitted in advance.

ZOOM Visits

Zoom is a great way to connect with your loved one.

It allows you to see each other while talking together.

Book your Zoom Visits online using Picktime!

We ask that visits be scheduled a day ahead, and that weekend requests are completed by Friday at 2pm. For zoom visits, you will receive a confirmation email first. Then, 1 day prior to your zoom visit you will receive the zoom link emailed to you from the Home.

Please book your Zoom visit using this link: https://www.picktime.com/JMPC

If you have any questions or unable to access this online tool, please call 613-354-3306 and someone will help you Mon-Fri during business hours.

Need to Cancel your ZOOM?

The booking site doesn’t have that feature to cancel yourself online unfortunately. So to cancel an appointment: Please contact Colleen. Please email her at cyork@lennox-addington.on.ca or call her at reception during business hours(main line)

Message from the Chair of Family Council

Family Council has been approached to see if there might be any volunteers willing to support Bingo in the home and thus free up staff for more resident contact.

Volunteers needed weekly for the following times:

Tuesday 1:30- 2:30 Wednesday 1:30- 2:30 Thursday 6:00-7:00pm.

Please contact Candice McMullen cmcmullen@lennox-addington.on.ca if you can help out. (ideally 2 per time slot)

Question regarding residents’ ability to vote in the home. Polling station will be available to residents further information to follow.

Summary of Key Information from Family Council Meeting Sept. 7 2021

Angela Malcolm Director provided excellent key information regarding how staffing is allocated and funded for JPC.

Concerns raised regarding foot care for residents. Only very basic care provided some families have hired private footcare for their loved one. Some thoughts as to how this might be done and offered as a group service for those that wish it.

Suggestions as how to improve communication with staff. Flow chart to be provided and looking into ways to improve phone communication with Resident Home Areas.

Continue to look into ways to provide a variety of activities in Home Areas for those residents who may find it challenging to attend larger events. Anyone interested in volunteering to providing some musical presentations ie. Piano playing, sing alongs etc. please contact Candice.

Take Care,

Gwen

Gwen Babcock

gbabcock@mycando.ca

Alzheimer's Society

We have a new contact person for our local Alzheimer’s Society.

Lesley Deshane, First Link Care Coordinator

613 – 544- 3078 ext 208

LDeshane@alzking.com

Around the Home

Tim Sheffield came to entertain us this week

Getting our new art created that we are featuring on our Art Gallery Wall

Resident Art Gallery

Eastern Ontario Corvette Club brought us some great cars to check out!

Forms That You May Require

Paper Copies of the Weekly Newsletter – Available at the Resource Centre right behind the screeners.
Essential Caregiver Designation Form – Click here
Overnight Absence Request Form – Click here