The Pines Resident & Family Portal

With great pleasure, we announce Laura Nicholson to the Nursing Leadership Team as an Assistant Director of Care.

Laura is a Registered Nurse with over 12 years of experience in the nursing field. Most recently, Laura has worked as a Care Coordinator for Home and Community Care Support Services. She also held positions at Orillia Soldiers’ Memorial Hospital as a Registered Nurse on the float team and with Georgian College as a Clinical Placement Educator. Laura brings a vast knowledge of the steps that our residents face prior to entering a Long-Term Care home and has built many resources and connections within our community to support this process, which will extend to keep her role as ADOC. Laura holds her BScN from Nipissing University, and we believe she will be a valuable asset to our residents, our front-line team members as well as to the nursing leadership team.

Thank you to those that were able to attend the meeting. Below is a copy of the recording as well as the April minutes that were approved at the meeting. Hope to see you at the next meeting.

May 2023 Family Council Meeting Recording

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April 2023 Family Council Meeting Minutes

April 2023 Family Update

Fixing Long Term Care Act, Powers of Family Council

In collaboration with Public Health, the COVID-19 outbreak has been declared over as of May 26, 2023. Thank you for your patience as we worked through this most recent outbreak.

General Visitors are allowed in all home areas at this time.

The Birch Home Area remains in a COVID outbreak at this time. There is currently, one (1) resident positive. Enhanced surveillance in the Cedar Home Area has been lifted. Family members of those affected residents as aware. No General Visitors at this time to Birch Home Area; essential caregiver at a maximum of two (2) at a time.

We will send updates regularly as we work through this most recent outbreak.

Measures at this time include:

• N95 Masks for all on Birch with removal upon exit. Please change into a clean surgical mask when leaving the unit.
• Eye Protection for all on Birch at all times. Please disinfect when leaving the unit.
• On-unit activities for Birch residents only
• twice daily symptom screening for residents on Birch
• Prompt isolation of any symptomatic residents
• Staff Cohorting where possible
• Social distancing where possible
• Resident hand hygiene before meals and snacks and whenever possible
• Enhanced Environmental Cleaning on Birch and in shared spaces in the home

If you have any questions, please connect with Melissa Muir-Clark at ext. 4752

The Birch Home Area remains in a COVID outbreak at this time. There are currently, three (3) residents positive. Enhanced surveillance in the Cedar Home Area has been lifted. Family members of those affected residents as aware. No General Visitors at this time to Birch Home Area; essential caregiver at a maximum of two (2) at a time.

We will send updates regularly as we work through this most recent outbreak.

Measures at this time include:

• N95 Masks for all on Birch with removal upon exit. Please change into a clean surgical mask when leaving the unit.
• Eye Protection for all on Birch at all times. Please disinfect when leaving the unit.
• On-unit activities for Birch residents only
• twice daily symptom screening for residents on Birch
• Prompt isolation of any symptomatic residents
• Staff Cohorting where possible
• Social distancing where possible
• Resident hand hygiene before meals and snacks and whenever possible
• Enhanced Environmental Cleaning on Birch and in shared spaces in the home

If you have any questions, please connect with Melissa Muir-Clark at ext. 4752

The Birch Home Area remains in a COVID outbreak at this time. There are currently, seventeen (17) residents positive. Enhanced surveillance in the Cedar Home Area has been lifted. Family members of those affected residents as aware. No General Visitors at this time to Birch Home Area; essential caregiver at a maximum of two (2) at a time.

We will send updates regularly as we work through this most recent outbreak.

Measures at this time include:

• N95 Masks for all on Birch with removal upon exit. Please change into a clean surgical mask when leaving the unit.
• Eye Protection for all on Birch at all times. Please disinfect when leaving the unit.
• On-unit activities for Birch residents only
• twice daily symptom screening for residents on Birch
• Prompt isolation of any symptomatic residents
• Staff Cohorting where possible
• Social distancing where possible
• Resident hand hygiene before meals and snacks and whenever possible
• Enhanced Environmental Cleaning on Birch and in shared spaces in the home

If you have any questions, please connect with Melissa Muir-Clark at ext. 4752

The Birch Home Area remains in a COVID outbreak at this time. There are currently, twenty (20) residents positive. Enhanced surveillance in the Cedar Home Area has been lifted. Family members of those affected residents as aware. No General Visitors at this time to Birch Home Area; essential caregiver at a maximum of two (2) at a time.

We will send updates regularly as we work through this most recent outbreak.

Measures at this time include:

• N95 Masks for all on Birch with removal upon exit. Please change into a clean surgical mask when leaving the unit.
• Eye Protection for all on Birch at all times. Please disinfect when leaving the unit.
• On-unit activities for Birch residents only
• twice daily symptom screening for residents on Birch
• Prompt isolation of any symptomatic residents
• Staff Cohorting where possible
• Social distancing where possible
• Resident hand hygiene before meals and snacks and whenever possible
• Enhanced Environmental Cleaning on Birch and in shared spaces in the home

If you have any questions, please connect with Melissa Muir-Clark at ext. 4752

The Birch Home Area remains in a COVID outbreak at this time. There are currently, twenty (20) residents positive. Enhanced surveillance in the Cedar Home Area has been lifted. Family members of those affected residents as aware. No General Visitors at this time to Birch Home Area; essential caregiver at a maximum of two (2) at a time.

We will send updates regularly as we work through this most recent outbreak.

Measures at this time include:

• N95 Masks for all on Birch with removal upon exit. Please change into a clean surgical mask when leaving the unit.
• Eye Protection for all on Birch at all times. Please disinfect when leaving the unit.
• On-unit activities for Birch residents only
• twice daily symptom screening for residents on Birch
• Prompt isolation of any symptomatic residents
• Staff Cohorting where possible
• Social distancing where possible
• Resident hand hygiene before meals and snacks and whenever possible
• Enhanced Environmental Cleaning on Birch and in shared spaces in the home

If you have any questions, please connect with Melissa Muir-Clark at ext. 4752

The Birch Home Area remains in a COVID outbreak at this time. There are currently, twenty (20) residents positive. Enhanced surveillance in the Cedar Home Area has been lifted. Family members of those affected residents as aware. No General Visitors at this time to Birch Home Area; essential caregiver at a maximum of two (2) at a time.

We will send updates regularly as we work through this most recent outbreak.

Measures at this time include:

• N95 Masks for all on Birch with removal upon exit. Please change into a clean surgical mask when leaving the unit.
• Eye Protection for all on Birch at all times. Please disinfect when leaving the unit.
• On-unit activities for Birch residents only
• twice daily symptom screening for residents on Birch
• Prompt isolation of any symptomatic residents
• Staff Cohorting where possible
• Social distancing where possible
• Resident hand hygiene before meals and snacks and whenever possible
• Enhanced Environmental Cleaning on Birch and in shared spaces in the home

If you have any questions, please connect with Melissa Muir-Clark at ext. 4752

The Birch Home Area remains in a COVID outbreak at this time. There are currently, twenty-one (21) residents positive. Cedar Home Area has been placed in enhanced surveillance related to one (1) COVID case. Family members of those affected residents as aware. No General Visitors at this time to Birch Home Area; essential caregiver at a maximum of two (2) at a time. Visting is not impacted in Cedar at this time.

We will send updates regularly as we work through this most recent outbreak.

Measures at this time include:

• N95 Masks for all on Birch with removal upon exit. Please change into a clean surgical mask when leaving the unit.
• Eye Protection for all on Birch at all times. Please disinfect when leaving the unit.
• On-unit activities for Birch and Cedar residents only
• twice daily symptom screening for residents on Birch and Cedar
• Prompt isolation of any symptomatic residents
• Staff Cohorting where possible
• Social distancing where possible
• Resident hand hygiene before meals and snacks and whenever possible
• Enhanced Environmental Cleaning on Birch, Cedar, and in shared spaces in the home

If you have any questions, please connect with Melissa Muir-Clark at ext. 4752