AUGUST 31, 2021 – MENNO HOME E1 – Covid Positive -T = 2 staff
COVID UPDATE – August 31, 2021 – Home E1
NEW COVID POSITIVE CASES = 2
TOTAL COVID POSITIVE CASES = 2 (0 resident/ 2 staff)
We are sad to report that there was a COVID positive exposure at Menno Home E1. Two staff are COVID positive.
Public Health has ordered that Menno Home E1 be on Enhanced Monitoring
What is Enhanced Monitoring?
When there is a low risk case of COVID with no evidence of transmission at a site (i.e. a COVID-19 exposure), an outbreak will not be declared and the facility will be placed on enhanced monitoring. This entails specific measures such as actively screening residents/tenants and staff to identify any further cases, testing/isolation of all those who are symptomatic;
- Residents/Tenants cared for by an affected staff member placed on isolation/droplet precautions
- Stop all all communal / group activities on the affected unit
- Tray service for all residents/tenant’s meals on the affected unit
- Stop all social visitation to the affected unit
- Only fully vaccinated residents to move into the unit
- PPE, hand hygiene and environmental audits twice / week
- These measures can be modified at the discretion of the Medical Health Officer
- Staff to cohort only to E1
- Residents and staff who were in close contact with the positive staff will be swabbed for COVID – all primary contacts of residents will be contacted
- If there is no COVID spread and all other aspects go well, the earliest the unit can come off Enhanced Monitoring is September 13th.
