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May 6, 2021 Dear Families, This week, we celebrate National Nurses Week, which begins on May 6th each year since 1974 and ends on May 12th, in honor of Florence Nightingale’s birthday. Next week, we begin celebrating National Skilled Nursing Care Week (formerly National Nursing Home Week). This year’s theme is “Together Through the Seasons.”… Continue Reading Continue reading
April 16, 2021 Dear Families, We hope this email finds you healthy and as optimistic as we are about the continuing decline in COVID cases in our surrounding community. Considering these encouraging numbers, we will begin to take a slightly different approach with these weekly email updates to you, focusing more on recreation activities… Continue Reading Continue reading
April 1, 2021 Dear Families, Overall, no significant changes to our center or our visitation plans, which are based on our state’s response to the CDC and CMS guidance. Please note that over the past week, our community has seen an uptick in positive cases. We continue to monitor these numbers and urge you… Continue Reading Continue reading
March 17, 2021 Dear Families, At long last – we have new guidance from the CDC on nursing home visitation! This new guidance reflects updates to address the vaccination of residents and individuals from the community, as well as the decrease in community spread and changes to visitation during an “outbreak.” While the CDC release… Continue Reading Continue reading
Click below for an update on our visitation plan, based on CDC guidance, effective 3/16/2021: Visitation Guidance (MA)… Continue reading
March 8, 2021 Dear Families, It looks like we will see an early burst of spring this week. Our goal is to get everyone some fresh air and sunshine this week! Our current COVID status is 0 staff and 0 residents. As you well know, this week marks one year that every nursing home in… Continue Reading Continue reading
COVID-19 Prev ProtocolsPostVaccinationLTCFamily Comm_2.23.21 Please see the link for the Massachusetts Visitation Guidelines for February 19, 2021 https://athenahealthcare.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/COVID-19-Prev-ProtocolsPostVaccinationLTCFamily-Comm_2.23.21.pdf… Continue reading
February 15, 2021 Dear Families, As always, we hope this letter finds you safe and healthy as we begin the New Year! Our current CVOID status is 1 employee and 0 residents We are very excited that our residents and staff have had now had the opportunity to receive their doses of the COVID-19 vaccine… Continue Reading Continue reading
February 6, 2020 Dear Families, As always, we hope this letter finds you safe and healthy as we begin the New Year! Our Current Covid-19 status is 0 residents and 0 staff. As you know by now, our staff and residents have completed two COVID-19 vaccination clinics, with the majority of our eligible staff and… Continue Reading Continue reading
January 25, 2020 Dear Families, As always, we hope this letter finds you safe and healthy as we begin the New Year! Our current CVOID status is 0 residents and 0 staff. We are very excited that our residents and staff have had now had the opportunity to receive their initial and second doses… Continue Reading Continue reading
