MENNO PLACE COVID UPDATE – FEBRUARY 28, 2022

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Please contact nurse at the unit for most recent updates and protocols when you arrive for your shift.

Scenario Protocols (1, 2, 3) – CLICK HERE

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HOME W2: OUTBREAK (declared 16/02/2022)

NEW COVID POSITIVE CASES = 2 residents  

TOTAL COVID POSITIVE CASES =29 (22 residents | 5 staff)

We have 2 new COVID positive cases in W2 over the past 3 days. We continue to look for ways that transmission could be taking place. All staff are cohorted, breaking separately. Residents on the north end are isolated. Staff who work with COVID positive residents are not working with others. We continue to work with the Fraser Health Outbreak lead and Public Health to examine every possible way that the transmission is taking place.

Protocols:
  • Twice daily symptom screening for staff and residents
  • All residents isolated and on droplet precaution
  • Communal dining discontinued
  • Group activities discontinued
  • Staff to wear masks and goggles until further notice
  • Only essential visitors allowed.

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HOSPITAL E2: Monitoring (Scenario 2)

NEW COVID POSITIVE CASES = 0

TOTAL COVID POSITIVE CASES = 3 (2 resident | 1 staff)

No new cases 02/28/22

East 2 is on Scenario 2 Protocols:

• Twice daily symptom screening for staff and residents.
• All symptomatic residents will be placed on isolation and swabbed
• Communal dining on the affected unit is stopped.
• Group activities on the affected unit are stopped.
• Social visits and essential visits on the affected can continue
• Continued admissions/transfers to the affected unit without approval from MHO
• Staff to wear goggles and masks in the care areas
• Staff to be cohorted to East 2