November 21 – No additional positives
Today has been a big workday for Leanne (Manager, Housekeeping) and her team. They have disinfected all the new isolation carts and are filling them with PPE to fulfill the full precautions for every unit in Menno Home. Full precautions are being rolled out throughout the units this weekend, finishing with the BSTN (Behavioural Support and Transition Neighbourhood) in E1.
All residents are being served their meals in their own rooms – great work Angela and team! There are more overbeds coming – they’ve been ordered!
On this morning’s call with Fraser Health, we heard the logic behind the full precautions throughout Menno Home. As we do not know the INDEX case for this outbreak, we have to behave with all caution and protect all residents and staff in all units until the INDEX case is discovered. When we are able to confidently say either that everyone (staff and residents) is COVID-negative or that we have done contact tracing through the INDEX case, then we will be able to lift the full precautions.
Most of the staff COVID-19 swab results are in. All that have come in are negative. Our PPE and sanitizing supplies are doing well. Bas (Manager, Environmental Services) and his team are ordering from Fraser Health every three days. His team was able to secure another 1000 COVID-19 swab tests through the Center for Disease Control. Great work, Stores Team!
We have started the auditing that is required, including Hand Hygiene audits, PPE audits and Environmental Audits. For this audit, we’ve trained an auditor on our team. They put some gel onto surfaces and leave it for 24 hours. Housekeeping does their enhanced cleaning. The auditor returns to those surfaces and reveals whether or not the gel has been removed with the cleaning.
The Menno Home E2 staff are entering through a door that was designed as an Emergency Exit at the bottom of a set of stairs. Bas and the Maintenance team set up a PIN pad for the door so that it can function as an entrance. The Active Screener meets each staff at the top of the stairs and does the Active Screening before they are in the space with any of the residents.
Some staff are doing overtime – thank you. We are short in some departments due to the staff who have tested negative not being able to return to work in other units, yet. Many are eager to get back to work. Thank you!
If you see Leanne, give her an air hug and an air high-five. She was doing the Terrace East laundry last night.
We are thankful for a very cohesive leadership team who are collaborating together to make this all happen – and thankful that we are seeing the return of negative results for the staff.
For all the past daily updates, go to www.MennoPlaceStaff.com
