September 18, 2021 – MENNO HOME UPDATE

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Menno Home Updates

There will not be daily updates for Menno Home unless there is a change.
W2 Home will remain on Enhanced Monitoring until the Medical Health Officer deems that it is safe to go to routine infection control protocols. At this time, we are expecting that if there are no further COVID cases or symptomatic residents/staff this will happen by September 27th.

September 17, 2021 – !!!!!MENNO HOME OFF OUTBREAK!!!!! – New COVID positive = 0 (T=38: 37/E1 : 1/W2 )

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COVID UPDATE – September 17, 2021 – Menno Home Outbreak Called OVER!

NEW COVID POSITIVE CASES = 0

TOTAL COVID POSITIVE CASES = Menno Home: 38 (22 residents / 16 staff) (37/E1: 1/W2)

PASSED AWAY: TODAY = 0  (T = 2 residents on E1)

RECOVERED STAFF =  (T=13 recovered)

RECOVERED RESIDENTS = all but 1 resident is off of isolation!

We are so pleased to bring you the announcement today that the Medical Health Officer has called the Menno Home Outbreak OVER!

Thank you for your incredible support, prayers and well wishes. Thank you to the amazing staff team that we have taking care of the elders in Menno Home! Thank you, especially, to the staff who worked to care for and support the COVID positive residents – we are grateful to you all!

As there was a COVID positive exposure in Menno Home W2, it remains on Enhanced Monitoring.

What happens now?

Menno Home E1, E2, W1

  • E1, E2 and W1 is off outbreak precautions.( one resident on E1 to stay on droplet until tomorrow)
  • Social visit may resume
  • Group activities and communal dining may resume.
  • Visitors must wear a medical masks (fully vaccinated visitors may take the masks off when they are with their loved ones, unvaccinated and partially vaccinated visitors must keep the mask at all times

Menno Home W2

  • On enhanced monitoring
  • Social visits may continue for VACCINATED VISITORS ONLY
  • Group activities and communal dining may resume
  • Essential visits as before
  • Residents with even mild symptoms will be swabbed

September 16, 2021 – MENNO HOME OUTBREAK – New COVID positive = 0 (T=38: 37/E1 : 1/W2 )

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COVID UPDATE – September 16, 2021 – Menno Home Outbreak

NEW COVID POSITIVE CASES = 0

TOTAL COVID POSITIVE CASES = Menno Home: 38 (22 residents / 16 staff) (37/E1: 1/W2)

PASSED AWAY: TODAY = 0  (T = 2 residents on E1)

RECOVERED STAFF =  (T=13 recovered)

We are pleased to report another day with no new COVID positives for either residents or staff. Thank you for your continued prayers and well wishes. We will get back to you on the recovered status of the residents as some have been asking. If you have a specific question about your loved one, please have the primary contact call the nurse. This is a good day. Hopeful! Thank you to our staff who are working vigilantly to keep this highly contagious virus from transmitting. Great work!

September 15, 2021 – MENNO HOME OUTBREAK – New COVID positive = 0 (T=38: 37/E1 : 1/W2 )

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COVID UPDATE – September 15, 2021 – Menno Home Outbreak

NEW COVID POSITIVE CASES = 0

TOTAL COVID POSITIVE CASES = Menno Home: 38 (22 residents / 16 staff) (37/E1: 1/W2)

PASSED AWAY: TODAY = 0  (T = 2 residents on E1)

RECOVERED STAFF = 3 more!  (T=13 recovered)

3 more staff have returned to work at Menno Home E1, recovered from COVID. We are grateful that there is no further spread of COVID to either residents or staff.

Thank you for your continued prayers and well-wishes.

September 11, 2021 – MENNO HOME OUTBREAK – New COVID positive = 1 (T=37 / E1)

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COVID UPDATE – September 11, 2021 – Menno Home Outbreak

NEW COVID POSITIVE CASES = 1 staff

TOTAL COVID POSITIVE CASES = Menno Home E1: 37 (22 residents / 15 staff)

PASSED AWAY: TODAY = 0  (T = 2 residents on E1)

RECOVERED STAFF =  (T=3 recovered)

September 10, 2021 – MENNO HOME OUTBREAK – New COVID positive = 0 (T=36 / E1)

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COVID UPDATE – September 10, 2021 – Menno Home Outbreak

NEW COVID POSITIVE CASES = 0

TOTAL COVID POSITIVE CASES = Menno Home E1: 36 (22 residents / 14 staff)

PASSED AWAY: TODAY = 0 (T = 2 residents on E1)

RECOVERED STAFF = 2 staff returned to work today (T=3 recovered)

There are no new COVID positives to report today and no deaths.
We continue to monitor the residents for symptoms and when there are symptoms, we swab for COVID.
There have been several instances of symptoms like a cough or diarrhea. All returned negative. Our care team are swabbing everyone even with the slightest symptom in order to ensure that we do not have COVID in any other resident or unit. We are grateful that all have been negative.
We continue to collect and gather results from the staff. This can be challenging as the staff’s COVID swabs are not reported directly to Menno Place. Instead, they are reported to the individual staff member who follows up with a call to Menno Place.
In total, over 450 swabs have been done to test residents and staff in Menno Home plus the 2nd round of point-prevalence testing for the E1 residents and staff.
Thank you to all of the nursing team who do the COVID swabbing and to the admin team who ensure that every sample has the correct identifiers for each person – and send them to the lab for analysis.
Thank you for your continued prayers for Menno Home – residents and staff. Today was a good day to see some of the initial COVID positive staff return to work.

September 9, 2021 – MENNO HOME OUTBREAK – New COVID positive = 2 (T=36 / E1)

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COVID UPDATE – September 9, 2021 – Menno Home Outbreak

NEW COVID POSITIVE CASES = 2 (1 staff / 1 resident)

TOTAL COVID POSITIVE CASES = Menno Home E1: 36 (22 residents / 14 staff)

PASSED AWAY:  1 death today, E1  (T = 2 residents on E1)

RECOVERED STAFF = 1 staff returned to work today

It is with saddness that we announce a 2nd death on Menno Home E1. Please continue to support, encourage and pray for the staff – they are very attached to the residents whom they care for and are taking these deaths very hard. There was also a death just prior to the outbreak, so they have lost 3 of their residents within the past several weeks. We are grateful for staff who are so present for the residents they serve and love.
We are now seeing the staff recovering and return to work. We welcome back to E1 Home one of the staff who was an original COVID positive reported on August 31st. We thank Fraser Health for providing staff to fill in when our staff were sick, contagious and unable to work. We are grateful for our daily call with Fraser Health. The COVID-Response Team
The only COVID positive results at this time are contained to Menno Home E1, Chalet side. See map below.
All swabs returned from the expanded point-prevalence testing on W1, W2, E2 are negative. There are some outstanding.
Menno Home E1 Map
Red = Chalet
Orange = Lounge

September 8, 2021 – MENNO HOME OUTBREAK – New COVID positive = 0 (T=34 / E1)

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COVID UPDATE – September 8, 2021 – Menno Home Outbreak

NEW COVID POSITIVE CASES = 0

TOTAL COVID POSITIVE CASES = Menno Home E1: 34 (21 residents / 13 staff)

PASSED AWAY: 1 resident E1 – this resident was palliative pre-outbreak

The only COVID positive results at this time are contained to the Menno Home E1 unit.
All staff and residents who tested negative in the first swabs done in Menno Home E1 are being tested again today.

September 7, 2021 – MENNO HOME OUTBREAK – New COVID positive = 1 (T=34 / E1)

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COVID UPDATE – September 7, 2021 – Menno Home Outbreak

NEW COVID POSITIVE CASES = 1 staff E1

TOTAL COVID POSITIVE CASES = Menno Home E1: 34 (21 residents / 13 staff)

PASSED AWAY: 1 resident E1 – this resident was palliative pre-outbreak

We continue to wait for results from the point-prevalence testing.
The only COVID positive results at this time are contained to the Menno Home E1 unit.
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Visits for Menno Home – E1, E2, W1, W2
Essential Visitors permitted with full PPE
Social visits are not permitted.
Staff are cohorted to work only on their specific unit within Menno Home and may not move from unit to unit.
Social Visitors for all other locations:
Social visits continue across the campus.
Masks are mandatory for all (regardless of immunization status) for the entire duration of your visit. Fully immunized no longer permitted to take off mask when alone with your loved one.

September 6, 2021 – MENNO HOME OUTBREAK – New COVID positive = 1 (T=33 / E1)

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COVID UPDATE – September 6, 2021 – Menno Home Outbreak

NEW COVID POSITIVE CASES = 1 staff E1

TOTAL COVID POSITIVE CASES = Menno Home E1: 33 (21 residents / 12 staff)

PASSED AWAY: 1 resident E1 – this resident was palliative pre-outbreak

We continue to wait for the results of the first expanded point-prevalence testing. 157 residents and 124 staff are included in this swabbing. We thank the staff who did the swabbing as well as those who have gone to get their COVID swab.
The only COVID positive results at this time are related to the Menno Home E1 unit.
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Visits for Menno Home – E1, E2, W1, W2
Essential Visitors permitted with full PPE
Social visits are not permitted.
Staff are cohorted to work only on their specific unit within Menno Home and may not move from unit to unit.
Social Visitors for all other locations:
Social visits continue across the campus.
Masks are mandatory for all (regardless of immunization status) for the entire duration of your visit. Fully immunized no longer permitted to take off mask when alone with your loved one.