MENNO PLACE COVID UPDATE – MARCH 7, 2022

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MARCH 7, 2022

Please contact nurse at the unit for most recent updates and protocols when you arrive for your shift.

Scenario Protocols (1, 2, 3) – CLICK HERE

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HOME W2: OUTBREAK DECLARED OVER! (06/03/2022)

OUTBREAK (declared 16/02/2022)

TOTAL COVID POSITIVE CASES =31 residents (since Feb. 8/22)

We are so pleased to report to you that the W2 Outbreak was declared OVER on Sunday, March 6th!
Protocols:
  • All residents off isolation!
  • Essential and designated visitors permitted
  • Group activities resume
  • Communal dining resumes

HOME W1: MONITORING – Scenario 1 (declared March 3, 2022)

NEW COVID POSITIVE CASES= 0 staff / 0 residents

TOTAL COVID POSITIVE CASES = 2 staff

No further COVID cases.
Protocols:
  • Initiate twice daily symptom screening of staff and residents and have a low threshold for testing any symptomatic staff or residents.
  • Goggles must be worn by staff at all times.
  • No isolation/droplet precautions of residents unless they are symptomatic
  • Continued group activities.
  • Continue with communal dining.
  • No change to social visits.
  • Cohorting staff on the affected Unit.
  • No asymptomatic/point prevalence testing of residents or staff.
  • Notify Public Health COVID-19 LTC HUB if there are positive resident cases identified.
  • The site can stop monitoring 7 days after the positive staff member(s) last worked if no other cases are identified
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HOME E1: MONITORING – Scenario 1 (declared March 6, 2022)

NEW COVID POSITIVE CASES= 1 staff / 0 residents

TOTAL COVID POSITIVE CASES = 1 staff

Protocols:
  • Initiate twice daily symptom screening of staff and residents and have a low threshold for testing any symptomatic staff or residents.
  • Goggles must be worn by staff at all times.
  • No isolation/droplet precautions of residents unless they are symptomatic
  • Continued group activities.
  • Continue with communal dining.
  • No change to social visits.
  • Cohorting staff on the affected Unit.
  • No asymptomatic/point prevalence testing of residents or staff.
  • Notify Public Health COVID-19 LTC HUB if there are positive resident cases identified.
  • The site can stop monitoring 7 days after the positive staff member(s) last worked if no other cases are identified