Update from Administrator – December 16, 2021

Hello Family and Friends of Valerie Manor

Covid Status Updates for Wednesday 12/16/21:

I am happy to provide some updates from our last communication on 12/13.Our Healthcare Partners from Griffin Health performed facility wide testing again this week and resulted in Zero New Positive Cases. With our most recent recoveries, we are now down to 1 (one) Active Covid resident. As the Latest exposed resident from the original community-based outbreak, this resident is at end of their covid positive infectious stage in Isolation and is soon to be fully recovered by the end of the week…

In addition, after 10 rounds of testing, as of today all staff continue to be Negative from any internal exposure from the original outbreak.

After a very trying month, We have some holiday celebrations in the upcoming week to bring some holiday cheer to our residents and staff…this will include special meals, season of giving, staff recognition, and even a visit from Santa Himself!. We are looking forward to spreading some holiday cheer next week…

Although we are not out of the woods, We continue to be vigilant about protecting loved ones and ensure proper social distancing, masking, and infection prevention protocols are followed, even outside our center. The Community at large is seeing a surge in cases so PLEASE be extra diligent this holiday season.

Center Visits

Visitation remains open per order from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, following the guidance and recommendations of the CDC/DPH. While your vaccination is not required for visitation, we continue to strongly encourage vaccination for everyone and booster shots for those now eligible. And Please remember…The Vaccine is highly effective against severe symptoms and death, but it is not guaranteed that you still can’t spread it without symptoms. All visitors are required to complete our COVID screening protocol, including temperature check and our questionnaire, and to wear a mask while in the center. We further ask that you proceed directly to your loved one’s room for your visit and not wander the center, to further reduce any potential exposure. We also strongly encourage you to follow all door signage guidelines for proper PPE while entering and exiting residents’ rooms and keep visits and contacts within the facility limited. We can provide all required PPE on site.

Vaccine, Booster, and FLU Updates

We continue our Booster Clinic. Our Goal is to have all Boosters to those residents that have consented be given the booster by 12/15. 94% of our residents are fully vaccinated and of those approximately 90% now have received boosters as of today. We have also started our Flu shots for those who chose to get one.

We will continue to update you on our center’s status. Our team continues to work tirelessly to help keep everyone as safe as possible during this time.

Craig Dumont
Administrator
Valerie Manor