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The Maple Home Area remains in Covid -19 Outbreak at this time. We remain with 2 confirmed Covid Positive residents on maple and 2 other symptomatic residents with an unknown pathogen.

No General Visitors to Maple Home Area at this time.

We remain in enhanced surveillance in Birch with 1 covid positive resident and 1 resident with an unknown pathogen.

Enhanced Infection Control Measures at this time on Maple include:

• Increased Personal Protective Equipment audits and hand hygiene audits
• Twice daily symptom screening on Maple and Birch unit
• Staff cohorting where possible
• Mandatory N95 masks and Eye protection at all times on Maple

Please reach out if you have any questions.

The Maple Home Area remains in Covid -19 Outbreak at this time. We currently have 2 confirmed Covid Positive residents on maple with 2 other symptomatic residents with an unknown pathogen.

We remain in enhanced surveillance in Birch with 1 covid positive resident and 1 resident with an unknown pathogen.

Enhanced Infection Control Measures at this time on Maple include:

• Increased Personal Protective Equipment audits and hand hygiene audits
• Twice daily symptom screening on Maple and Birch unit
• Staff cohorting, where possible
• Mandatory N95 masks and Eye protection at all times on Maple

Please reach out if you have any questions.

In collaboration with Public Health, the Maple Unit at The Pines has been declared Covid -19 Outbreak. We currently have 2 confirmed Covid Positive residents on maple with 2 other symptomatic residents with an unknown pathogen.

Enhanced Infection Control Measures at this time on Maple include:

• General Visiting is suspended at this time; essential caregivers only.
• Increased Personal Protective Equipment audits and hand hygiene audits
• Twice daily symptom screening on Maple unit
• Staff cohorting where possible
• Mandatory N95 masks and Eye protection at all times on Maple

Please reach out to Melissa Muir-Clarke, IPAC Lead, if you have any questions.

We continue to be on Enhanced Surveillance for Covid-19 in Maple Woods Home Area. Visiting is not impacted at this time.

The appropriate PPE and N95 masks are provided outside the residents' rooms, and signage indicates the necessary PPE precautions.

On Units, Enhanced measures at this time include:

• Increased hand hygiene
• Increased PPE audits and hand hygiene audits
• Twice daily symptom screening on Maple and Birch unit
• Staff cohorting where possible
• N95 Masks and Eye Protection are strongly encouraged to be used at all times on both units.

N95 masks and Eye protection can be found in the swabbing area and in front of the Maple and Birch units.

If you have any questions, please reach out to Melissa Muir-Clark, IPAC Lead.

We have received notification that the parking by-laws including "no parking between the hours of 2 a.m.- 6 a.m. between October 16-April 15 will be enforced from the angled parking on Pine Street". Please do not park before 6 am or you could receive a ticket.

The Bracebridge Bylaw Officers will enforce this. We are working with the Town of Bracebridge to review this bylaw for Pine Street and will update you if this changes.

Thank you

You may also attend in-person at the Pines in the Fran Coleman Room or with Zoom link below.

Wednesday December 21, 2022 starting at 6:30 p.m.

Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89455264812?pwd=OXdVYnNodUJWSDZnWXlWM3huS1RMZz09

Meeting ID: 894 5526 4812
Passcode: 506904

Any questions related to these meetings can be directed to Jill Gaston.

Meeting Documents:

• Family Council Agenda December 2022
• Family Council Nov 16-22 (Scot Gray)
• Resource for FC_Oct-Nov_Now What
• TP-FC Minutes Nov. 16-22
• 2022-23 Fall Winter Menus
• Admin Family Update November 2022

This is the time of year to be thankful and we appreciate that you would like to say thank you to the staff caring for your loved one. With this being said, our staff are not to accept individual gifts. If you would like to provide something to the team, please ensure that it is something that can be shared, but with COVID restrictions we need to ensure that everything is individually wrapped or something as simple as a "Thank you" is enough.

We celebrate regularly as a team and will continue to do this through the holiday season.

Currently, we have no home areas in outbreak and there are some great spaces in the home that you can enjoy with your loved one, such as the Family Room and the Celebration Dining Room. If you are unsure where to locate these rooms, please let us know and we will help to direct you.

In collaboration with Public Health, the COVID-19 outbreak in the Oak home area has been declared over as of December 9, 2022

Reminder that at this time masks are required at all times in the home related to increase in communicate cases.

Season's Greetings Families and Friends of The Pines!

We at The Pines Support Committee need your help! Our membership is low and the future of the Support Committee is uncertain! We are looking for individuals to join the PSC who are interested in making a real difference in the lives of our residents.

We'd like to tell you a little bit about the PSC, who we are and what we do. The Pines Support Committee was established in 2009 by a group of dedicated volunteers to raise funds for the exclusive benefit of our residents to "Optimize Life". We have held several fundraisers over the years, including Gala Dinners and Online and Silent Auctions. We also gratefully acknowledge and accept In Memoriam donations and general donations from Service Clubs in the area. All donors receive tax receipts from the District of Muskoka.

Perhaps many of you are not aware what the PSC has been able to purchase with these funds so we'd like to boast a little and list some:

*Our committee funded the expansion and renovation of the front entrance and Country Kitchen/Solarium space creating a beautiful and bright place for residents, family and staff to gather to socialize and enjoy meals, crafts and activities.

*The committee set a goal to replace every resident bed with what is called a "Hi-Lo" bed which benefits both residents and staff immensely allowing for easier resident transfers, assisting staff with resident care and more importantly reducing fall risk. We are proud to report we just approved the purchase of an additional 20 beds bringing our total beds purchased to 110!

*Technology is essential for everyone to stay in touch and we recognized during the pandemic that residents needed to be able to visit with their families virtually so the PSC purchased Ipads for each unit so loved ones could Facetime regularly. We also purchased four Smart televisions to help staff provide lots of entertainment and activities for residents. At our last meeting we approved the purchase of a desktop computer and two laptops for resident use. In the Spring of 2022 we approved the purchased a fantastic piece of equipment called an

https://omi.uk/care/mobii-interactive-table-floor/ which enhances residents with dementia recreational time.

At our most recent meeting we had asked department heads at The Pines for their wish lists and wow did they come through! We are proud to state we approved the purchase of the following:

Three Pallative Care Carts costing $2034.00

Five Sara Steady Lifts costing $9851.80

Five Sara Sit to Stand Lifts costing $22,569.36

Four Rubbermaid Security Cleaning Carts which keep cleaning products secure when the cart is unattended costing $3694.68

One Crown Verity BBQ for Resident/Staff BBQs in the courtyard costing $5680.05

Five Cordless vacuums for resident areas costing $740.00

Along with these items listed we include the additional Hi-Lo beds and computers

We also agreed to fund $21.00 per resident for Christmas gifts costing $3234.00

To sum things up, we are proud to say in 2022 alone we have provided equipment and services for The Pines costing just shy of $200,000.00!

We are sounding the alarm bells! Without new membership The Pines Support Committee will no longer be able to carry on and the important fundraising and purchases listed above for our residents will be no more. We meet once a month to discuss fundraising plans, expenditure requests and general business. If you are not able to attend meetings in person, you can always join virtually through Zoom.

We hope that 2023 will bring us many new enthusiastic members and allow the PSC to begin fundraising again. If you are interested and have any questions, please contact Kim Gibbs at The Pines at 705-645-4488.