Memo for Terrace East Residents – September 12, 2021
MEMO
Date: September 12, 2021
To: Terrace East Residents
Re: COVID-19 positive residents in Terrace East
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There are 2 COVID positive residents in Terrace East. As a result, new Public Health Orders are in place.
Residents on floors 5 & 6:
As a result, Public Health has ordered all residents of the 5th and 6th floor to be on droplet precautions. This means that you must remain in your apartment suite. Anyone who enters must wear full personal protective equipment (gown, goggles, mask). This does not mean that you are COVID positive. It is a precaution to help keep you safe. Your meals will be delivered to your apartment suite. All residents will be COVID swabbed on September 13th.
Residents on floors 1 to 4:
For residents living on floors 1-4, you will continue to go to the dining room for your meals. Masks are now mandatory anytime you are with someone in your apartment suite or if you are outside of your apartment suite (hallway, elevator). Keep your social distance and wash hands/sanitize frequently, especially when you return to your apartment.
For all residents in Terrace East:
There are no social visits during this time. You may not let anyone into the building using the enterphone. This includes family, housekeepers, friends or other personal service providers. You may not exit the apartment building to go on any outings, including going to church. No outside walks or visits, including going to the Gazebo or walking the Menno Place pathways. No entering others apartment suites. If you have an urgent medical appointment, please call Cheryl Dawes to make arrangements: 604.851.4020
All Recreation and Chaplain activities are temporarily suspended.
Essential deliveries must be arranged with Reception. Examples of essential items are: incontinence products, hearing aids, medications. There will not be someone at the door at all times, so delivery of these items must be approved through Reception: 604.851.4004.
Essential visitors are people whose visits have been assessed by nursing as essential, primarily those who are visiting a palliative resident. Only essential visitors are permitted to enter and they must arrange every visit with the nurse who will assist them with donning (putting on) and doffing (taking off) their Personal Protective Equipment (PPE).
We do not know when these orders will be lifted. It will be when Public Health is confident that COVID has not spread and that there are no contagious individuals. This is usually a 14-day period, but will be re-evaluated daily. It will be extended if there are any new COVID positive cases.
All residents on floors 5 & 6 as well as all staff who worked from September 8-12 will be COVID swabbed in the first point-prevalence testing. This test provides a baseline so that Public Health can know if or how widely COVID has spread within Terrace East.
We are pleased to remind you that we have a very high percentage of fully vaccinated residents and staff. We are finding in the Menno Home outbreak that the severity of the symptoms is significantly less for those who contract COVID than for the unvaccinated. This is very good news. It reminds us, however, that it is essential to report even the mildest of symptoms to the nursing team or to Reception. See below for list of symptoms.
COVID vaccination is not 100% protection from COVID, but it is the best protection we have against symptoms, hospitalization and death. We are very grateful that so many of you are vaccinated.
If you have any questions, please call me,
Cheryl Dawes, Manager, Community Enrichment – 604.851.4020
Do you have any of these COVID symptoms – even mildly? Tell the nurse.
| Fever or chills? | Cough? Unproductive cough? |
| Sore throat? | Extreme fatigue or tiredness? |
| Body aches? Muscle aches? | Diarrhea? |
| Difficulty breathing? | Loss of sense of smell or taste? |
| Loss of appetite? | Headache? |
| Nausea or vomiting? |
