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Please see the fact sheets from the Ministry of Long-Term Care regarding 2023 vaccination for Caregivers, Staff, Visitors and Residents. Our clinics started last week for residents and continue until we have all residents, who wish to receive their vaccination, completed.

2023 Vaccination Information for Caregivers, Staff, and Visitors

2023 Vaccination Information for Residents

COVID outbreak was declared today, October 9, 2023, in the Cedar Home Area. Outbreak remains for the Oak Home area.

The following infection control measures to be implement or continued at this time:

• N95 Masks and eye protection to be worn on Oak and Cedar home areas at all times.
• BID respiratory symptom screening on Oak and Cedar.
• Immediate isolation of any residents with new symptom onset.
• Cohorting of staff, when possible.
• Activities- Small group activities on Oak and Cedar; cohorting of other units where possible.
• Twice daily high touch surface cleaning on Oak and Cedar.
• Increased hand hygiene and PPE audits on unit.
• Increased resident hand hygiene.
• Use of red dietary trays for isolated residents.
• Limit of 2 essential caregivers at a time on the OAK and CEDAR Home Areas.
• No General Visiting to the OAK and CEDAR Home Areas
• Oak staff and Cedar please use Granite room for breaks, or are encouraged to break outside.
• *If residents insist on going off unit, please assist them with masking or a visor and encourage outdoor visiting.

In collaboration with Public Health, a COVID outbreak was declared today, October 8, 2023 in the Oak Home Area. Cedar Home area remains in heighted surveillance related to 1 COVID case.

The following infection control measures to be implement or continued at this time:

• N95 Masks and eye protection to be worn on Oak and Cedar home areas at all times.
• Twice daily respiratory symptom screening on Oak and Cedar.
• Immediate isolation of any residents with new symptom onset.
• Cohorting of staff, when possible.
• Activities- Small group activities on Oak and Cedar; cohorting of other units where possible.
• Twice daily high touch surface cleaning on Oak and Cedar.
• Increased hand hygiene and PPE audits on unit.
• Increased resident hand hygiene.
• Use of red dietary trays for isolated residents.
• Limit of 2 essential caregivers at a time on the OAK Home Area.
• No General Visiting to the OAK Home Area
• Visiting not impacting on Cedar at this time
• *If residents insist on going off unit, please assist them with masking or a visor and encourage outdoor visiting.

We currently have one COVID positive case resident in the Oak and in Cedar home areas. Resident is isolated and family members are aware. No impact to visiting at this time.

Oak and Cedar will need to switch to N95 masks and eye wear at all times.

Twice daily symptom monitoring of residents

Increased disinfecting of high touch surfaces

Increased hand hygiene for residents and staff

Oak and Cedar residents are to remain on the home areas at this time.

We will continue to provide updates with any changes.

Thank you to those that were able to attend the meeting. Below is a copy of the recording and the June minutes that were approved at the meeting.

September Family Council Meeting Recording

Passcode: 5Zw*AkB8

June 2023 Family Council Minutes

June 2023 Draft Family Council terms of Reference

Continuous Quality Improvement- Interim Report

June 2023 Family Update

For emergency management, Ministry requirements, and Public Health requirements. Visitors must continue to sign in and out using the iPads to the left of the front door, as per legislative. In accordance with section 267(2) of O. Reg. 246/22, homes must maintain visitor logs of all visits to the home. The visitor log must include, at a minimum:

• The name and contact information of the visitor
• Time and date of the visit
• The purpose of the visit (example, name of the resident visited);

Please also remember that if you are taking a resident off of their home area you need to sign the resident out at the nursing station. There are sign-out books at each station. This will ensure that staff knows the whereabouts and safety of all residents.

We are happy to report that all of the courtyard work is completing. We would like to thank everyone for working with our team to complete this much needed process. We look forward to further additions to the courtyards in 2024 to enhanced the courtyards.

Thanksgiving is a time for family and feast. I hope that each of you take time to show thanks and spend time with your family. I am definitely thankful for all of the wonderful individuals that live, visit, and work at the Pines. Happy Thanksgiving to each of you.

As we continue with upgrades to the home, we will be having a new emergency ramp installed at the front of the home. Our team learned last year, with our emergency evacuation exercise, that this was something that was needed for resident safety, if we ever needed to evacuate. Please watch for this project to begin in October.

The emergency generator have been delivered and will be hooked up to the home in the coming weeks. This will supply the home with one hundred (100) percent power if we happen to have a power outage. We will have a few moments in time over the coming weeks where we will be required to run on our old generator as the new one is hooked up to the home. We will do our best to communicate this prior to.