MENNO PLACE COVID UPDATE – MARCH 2, 2022

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MARCH 2, 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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UPDATES AND REPORTING:

With the high prevalence of COVID in the community, Fraser Health introduced new Scenarios for Protocols. This has impacted the complexity of reporting residents and staff who are COVID positive. As a result, we have made some changes to reporting:

  1. In the initial outbreaks, all COVID positive cases (both staff and residents) could be easily traced to the outbreak as the source of transmission. During this wave of Omicron, it is nearly impossible to do contact tracing with staff as it relates to transmission on the unit. With this in mind, we will no longer be reporting staff COVID positive cases unless they are the initial cases on the unit.
  2. The various scenarios for protocols have added layers of complexity to when the “beginning” of a COVID outbreak takes place. You will notice that there is a jump in the number of COVID positive residents on Home W2 today as we are now reporting not only how many residents have become COVID positive since the declaration of the outbreak, but also since the initial Scenario was declared. Our goal continues to be that we provide accurate and meaningful reports to you in order to clearly express the significance and ongoing nature of COVID positives on a unit.
  3. Unless an Outbreak is declared or ends, we will no longer be reporting on weekends. You can continue to expect updates Monday – Friday.

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

NEW COVID POSITIVE CASES = 1 resident  

TOTAL COVID POSITIVE CASES =31 residents (since Feb. 8/22)

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.

HOME W1: MONITORING – Scenario 1 (declared 02/03/2022)

NEW COVID POSITIVE CASES = 2 staff  

Protocols:
  • Initiate twice daily symptom screening of staff and residents and have a low threshold for testing any symptomatic staff or residents.
  • Goggles must be worn by staff at all times.
  • No isolation/droplet precautions of residents unless they are symptomatic
  • Continued group activities.
  • Continue with communal dining.
  • No change to social visits.
  • Cohorting staff on the affected Unit.
  • No asymptomatic/point prevalence testing of residents or staff.
  • Notify Public Health COVID-19 LTC HUB if there are positive resident cases identified.
  • The site can stop monitoring 7 days after the positive staff member(s) last worked if no other cases are identified

HOSPITAL E2: Monitoring (Scenario 2) – DECLARED OVER! (02/03/22)

NEW COVID POSITIVE CASES = 0

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

Residents return to dining and group activities.