Grandparents Day is just two weeks away. Mark your calendars and bring your family to the courtyard on Saturday, September 12 for fun, food, and treats for kids of all ages.
More information here: https://mennoplacestaff.com/save-the-date-grandparents-day-sept-12-2026/
Delivering Safe and Reliable Care is a subsection under Resident Care Experience as one of the Accreditation Themes. It focuses to ensure residents’ needs are met by providing safe and reliable individualized care.
You can download the full version by clicking here: Accreditation 2026 #6: Resident Care Experience Pt. 1
ROP 1 Falls Prevention Strategy
Surveyor Question: Tell me about what the Fall Prevention Strategy is for the residents.
Answer: To minimize injury from falls, a documented and coordinated approach for falls prevention is implemented and evaluated.
ROP 2 Skin and Wound Care
Surveyor Question: Tell me what processes are in place for skin and wound care.
Answer: An interdisciplinary and collaborative approach is used to assess residents who need skin and wound care and provide evidence-informed care that promotes healing.
ROP 3 Pressure Ulcer Prevention
Surveyor Question: Tell me what processes are in place to prevent pressure ulcers.
Answer: Risk for developing a pressure ulcer is assessed and interventions to prevent pressure ulcers are implemented.
ROP 4 Suicide Prevention
Surveyor Question: How does your organization identify and document suicide risk among residents?
Answer: Residents are assessed and monitored for risk of suicide.
Stay tuned: Part 2 on Delivering Safe & Reliable Care will be coming out soon.
Thank you for your care and support in making this Accreditation Survey another successful one!
The next Violence Prevention Workshop of the year is happening on September 14, 2026.
Medication Management is one of our Accreditation Themes. It covers organizational safety practices related to medication management.
You can download the full version by clicking here: Accreditation 2026 #5: Medication Management
ROP 1 The “Do Not Use” List of Abbreviations
Surveyor Question: At Menno Place, do you ensure that incorrect abbreviations and symbols that may cause errors are not used on any written, printed or electronic materials?
Answer: Yes, we follow the Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) list of error-prone abbreviations, symbols, and dose designation which is reviewed regularly by our Medical & Medication Safety and Advisory Committee (MMSAC).
ROP 2 High Alert Medications
Surveyor Question: At Menno Place, do you have a comprehensive strategy for managing high-alert medications?
Answer: Yes, we follow the process of our policy RCS 6.13 High-Alert Medications which includes regular education for nurses, audits, and annual policy review.
ROP 3 Heparin Safety and Medication Concentrations
Surveyor Question: How does Menno Place ensure that heparin products are limited and stored safely?
Answer: Heparin is identified as high alert medication. We limit the use of heparin products and order only the low molecular weight heparin under specific circumstances.
ROP 4 Narcotics Safety
Surveyor Question: How does your team ensure that narcotics are stored and used safely?
Answer: Narcotics are identified as high alert medication. We limit narcotics, ensure restricted access, and educate staff on their usage reduces medication errors.
ROP 5 Medication Reconciliations across Care Transitions
Surveyor Question: What process is in place to ensure that the best possible medication history is obtained and that the resident gets the right medication orders?
Answer: Medication reconciliation is conducted in partnership with the resident, family/caregiver and pharmacy to communicate accurate and complete information about medications.
Dear Team,
Please be advised that Adaptive Technical will be performing scheduled network maintenance on Saturday, August 29, from 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM.
During this maintenance window, Internet access and Wi-Fi services will be unavailable. There will be no backup or failover internet connection available, so any systems, applications, or services that rely on internet connectivity will be affected.
Please note:
We encourage everyone working during this period to plan ahead and complete any internet-dependent tasks before the maintenance window begins.
Following the interruption of Internet service all systems and services should be restored. As always, in case of emergency, after-hours support is available from Adaptive when you call campus local 2241.
Thank you for your cooperation and preparation as we complete this important maintenance.
If you have any questions regarding the outage or backup procedures, please contact your supervisor or manager.
All staff are invited to join us in the Menno Home courtyard for the staff BBQ this Thursday, August 13th. Wear your denim or plaid (or both!) and come ready for food, fun and a great chance to connect with your team.
Join the fun as we celebrate Grandparents Day on Saturday, September 12th in the Menno Home Courtyard!
Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) is one of our Accreditation Themes. It covers hand hygiene education & training, compliance with accepted practices, and infection rate tracking and analyzing.
You can download the full version by clicking here: Accreditation 2026 #3: Resident Safety4: Infection Prevention & Control
Surveyor Question: How do we evaluate compliance with accepted hand hygiene practices?
Answer: We evaluate hand hygiene compliance by directly observing (audit) the practice using the Speedy Audit tool conducted by trained peer team member auditors.
ROP 2 Hand Hygiene Education and Training
Surveyor Question: What education and training have you received on hand hygiene?
Answer: We receive regular education assigned to us in Surge Learning, we have visual signs posted throughout our site, we receive hands on education at unit team meetings as required, and get direct feedback by hand hygiene peer auditors.
ROP 3 Infection Rates are Tracked and Analyzed
Surveyor Question: How do we track infection information, analyze it, and communicate this information throughout the organization?
Answer: We track infection rates, analyze the information to identify clusters, outbreaks and trends; this is shared throughout the organization following our policy AP 5.05 IPC Program.
Visit our website for more information on each of these ROP’s
To: All Menno Place Staff
Date: Monday, August 10, 2026
Re: Duplicate copies of newsletter sent accidentally
Dear Friends and Family,
Over the weekend we launched a new newsletter – Together We Care – and when we got back to the office Monday morning saw that the email had accidentally sent multiple times. We apologize for any inconvenience and want to let you know that the error has been corrected. You should not receive multiple copies going forward.
