If you are double vaccinated, you may remove your goggles and masks except when in direct contact with residents. This is a temporary measure during this heatwave. You will be notified when we return to our previous COVID-protocols. Please provide proof of double-dose of COVID vaccination using the form below. You will be required to upload evidence of your double-dose (.jpg, .png or PDF).
Effective immediately, these are the updates from Fraser Health for social visits in Menno Home, Menno Hospital and Terrace East:
We are pleased to present the vaccination rates for our residents across the Menno Place campus. Our seniors are taking their safety and the safety of others very seriously in this pandemic. Thank you to all who participated in being vaccinated!
Declining vaccination was primarily due to medical conditions.
Families and Friends can now book outdoor gatherings with their loved one from Menno Home or Menno Hospital. These gatherings are booked only by Reception in Home and Hospital. Nurses or other admin can transfer booking requests to the Reception phone. Receptionists are aware of the booking process.
The gatherings will follow the Public Health Orders for outdoor gatherings and will be assessed with each change we experience through the BC Restart Plan:
Gatherings will take place under the large tent in the center courtyard for both Home and Hospital.
This is a bookable space for families to use. There will only be one booking at a time in this space.
Please ensure that all of your actions within the courtyard follow Infection Control Protcols, including social distancing between staff members. We are excited to provide visitors with this opportunity and we know that they will be taking their cues on safety from the staff that they observe.
If you have questions, please direct them to Garry.Janzen@MennoPlace.ca
NEW COVID POSITIVE CASES = 0 (0 residents / 1 staff)
TOTAL COVID POSITIVE CASES = 1 (0 residents/ 1 staff)
Menno Hospital E2 is OFF enhanced monitoring, effective immediately.
Social visits to resume June 2, 2021.
Effective immediately, we have ended the Registered Visitor program at Pavilion, Terrace West and Primrose Gardens.
Since March 2020, the Registered Visitor program has successfully provided support to the 250 residents of these apartments during a global pandemic. There have been NO instances of COVID exposure by visitors through this program. This effective program has kept our residents safe from this deadly virus that is most dangerous for those over 80 years old, particularly those with multiple health issues. It is with incredible gratitude that we retire this effective safety support program.
The Independent Living Apartments residents and their visitors will now be expected to follow the BC Restart Plan:
https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/covid-19/info/restartRecreation, spiritual and social activities for Independent Living residents will follow this plan as well. As you know, the plan will move forward in four steps under the direction of BC’s public health officer, Dr. Bonnie Henry. These steps are dependent on: the percentage of vaccinated individuals over 18 years of age, number of COVID cases, number of hospitalizations.
Residents in these three apartment buildings will be receiving a memo today notifying them of this change.
We expect visitors to continue their vigilance in Infection Control Protocols, including mask-wearing in the building, hand-hygiene and social distancing. Please go directly to and from your loved one’s apartment suite and do not move around the apartment building. At this time, we have not opened the guest suites or guests to join in meals.
We anticipate that the 2nd dose vaccination clinic for Primrose Gardens and Pavilion residents will take place the last week of June. We will keep you posted on this. Terrace West has already had the 2nd dose vaccination clinic as they are in physical proximity to our Assisted Living apartment, Terrace East. If you wish to register your loved one through the BC Vaccination Registration, you may do that as well: https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/covid-19/vaccine/register
It is with gratitude that we thank the individuals who are responsible for the effective Registered Visitor program – thank you to Nik Van Egdom, Brenda Mertke and Leonard Klassen for implementing this plan to keep our residents safe. Thank you to Cheryl Dawes and Sharon Simpson for creating and implementing this program early into the pandemic. We know that there have been many sleepless nights, particularly at the beginning of the pandemic and recently as community prevalence / variants became a concern. We have prayed that COVID would not enter nor spread in our apartment buildings. With the layers of protection, including social distancing, mask-wearing and vaccination practiced throughout our community, we are grateful that we can end this program.
Thank you to God for His protection, to the residents for their endurance and vigilance during this time, to the families for your care and diligence, to the staff for your faithful practices of infection prevention and to the team who made this amazing safety program possible.
We have been waiting for a change that moves us back to “normal” and this is the first step in that direction. It’s a good day for us all! Please continue to be safe!
Please send any words of encouragement or gratitude to the Menno Place team to Sharon.Simpson@Mennoplace.ca. They will be passed along to these amazing staff!
What about Terrace East Assisted Living Apartments? We have not, yet, heard any update in protocols from Fraser Health. We will post them when we are made aware. Until then, we continue with social visits for families.
Jasdeep Diogan is an Infection Prevention and Control Community Specialist with Fraser Health. She is assigned to Menno Home and Hospital to provide support. Jasdeep will be working in Home and Hospital one day per week.
Jasdeep believes that proper hand hygiene and environmental cleaning are key to preventing healthcare-associated infections.
Prior to joining the IPC team in 2020, Jasdeep worked as an Environmental Health Officer for nine years supporting communities in the Fraser East. Jasdeep has completed a Bachelor of Technology in Environmental Health at BCIT, Certificate in Environmental and Occupation Health at the University of Victoria and is currently in her last semester in UBC’s Master of Public Health program. She is also working towards a Certificate in Infection Control (CIC) and completing the IPC program through Queen’s University.
When not working, Jasdeep loves reading, snowboarding and exploring trails in the lower mainland. She looks forward to working in partnership with the Langley community and supporting sites in implementing evidence-based IPC strategies.
w2 HOME IS OFF ENHANCED MONITORING!
NEW COVID POSITIVE CASES = 0
TOTAL COVID POSITIVE CASES = 1 (0 resident/ 1 staff)
NEW COVID POSITIVE CASES = 0 (0 residents / 1 staff)
TOTAL COVID POSITIVE CASES = 1 (0 residents/ 1 staff)
Menno Hospital E2 is on enhanced monitoring as one staff member is COVID positive.
23 resident swabs completed and all returned negative
6 staff swabs returned negative; 4 pending
The residents on S wing on Isolation/Droplet Precautions:
The residents on D wing:
NEW COVID POSITIVE CASES = 1 (0 residents / 1 staff)
TOTAL COVID POSITIVE CASES = 1 (0 residents/ 1 staff)
Menno Hospital E2 is on enhanced monitoring as one staff member is COVID positive.
The residents on S wing and one resident on D wing are on droplet precautions. This means:
The residents on D wing:
STAFF
MAP OF HOSPITAL E2 – D-Wing is the north end of the unit / S-Wing is the south end of the unit