MENNO PLACE COVID UPDATE – MARCH 12, 2022
MARCH 12, 2022
Please contact nurse at the unit for most recent updates and protocols when you arrive for your shift. As of March 11, 2022, staff are allowed to work on different units within Menno Home. Staff are limited to one unit per day. Please continue to wear a mask at all times and screen once per day. Please do not travel between Terrace East and other buildings.
Scenario Protocols (1, 2, 3) – CLICK HERE
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TERRACE EAST: SELF MONITORING – Scenario 1 (confirmed March 12, 2022)
NO NEW CASES TODAY
TOTAL COVID POSITIVE CASES = 4
Protocols:
- Initiate twice daily symptom screening of staff and residents and have a low threshold for testing any symptomatic staff or residents.
- Symptomatic residents and residents who test positive are to be placed on isolation/droplet precautions.
- Group activities continue – Terrace East and Terrace West programs separated.
- Dining room remains open.
- No change to social visits. Visits continue. We ask that all visitors are vigilant about screening themselves, completing a Rapid test when they enter the building, wear a MEDICAL mask (provided), sanitize hands. Do not enter if you are sick.
- Cohorting staff to the affected area (building).
- No point prevalence testing of asymptomatic residents or staff
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HOSPITAL E2: MONITORING – Scenario 2 (declared March 10, 2022)
NO NEW CASES TODAY
TOTAL COVID POSITIVE CASES = 1 staff
Protocols:
- Social visits and essential visits continue
- Communal dining stays open
- Group activities continue
- Twice a day monitoring for staff and residents
- Staff to wear masks and goggles
- Staff to cohort to Menno Hospital E1
- Staff to use separate entrance
