HOSPITAL COVID UPDATE – JANUARY 24, 2022 – E1, W2
HOSPITAL E1: OUTBREAK: January 24, 2022
NEW COVID POSITIVE CASES = 3 residents | 0 staff
TOTAL COVID POSITIVE CASES = 43 (28 residents | 15 staff: 13 returned to work)
MOST RECENT COVID CASE = January 23, 2022
INDEX CASE = January 3, 2022 (staff)
PASSED AWAY: 1 death, January 18, 2022
Outbreak protocols:
- All residents remain on droplet precautions – isolation and full PPE for staff and essential visits
- Only VERY ESSENTIAL visits, no social visits
- Audits continue – hand hygiene audit, PPE audit, environmental audit
- All communal activity including dining stopped
- All families of affected residents are contacted
- Staff to using dining room as their cohorted break room
- Staff to use patio entrance to enter and exit the unit
- Any symptomatic residents will be swabbed for COVID
HOSPITAL W2: Enhanced Monitoring
NEW COVID POSITIVE CASES = 1
TOTAL COVID POSITIVE CASES = 1 (1 residents | 0 staff)
MOST RECENT COVID CASE = January 24, 2022
INDEX CASE = January 24, 2022 (resident)
West 2 Hospital is on enhanced monitoring.
- Twice daily symptom screening for staff and residents
- Staff to wear masks and goggles
- Symptomatic residents and residents who test positive are to be placed on isolation/droplet precautions.
- Communal dining on the affected unit is stopped.
- Group activities on the affected unit are stopped.
- Social visits/essential visits can continue