Covid-19 Update
Posted on July 03, 2020
Family Update – July 3rd, 2020
Dear Friends and Family Members,
We hope that you all enjoyed your weekend, and were able to celebrate Canada Day in a safe and mindful way. Thank you once again for all of the support and understanding you have given us during this time. We remain free of COVID-19, with no cases among our residents or our staff to date. This is thanks in large part to the cooperation and buy-in we have had from residents, family, friends, and staff. We are working together as a team to keep everybody safe, and we have been succeeding so far!
BC Health Minister Adrian Dix and BC Medical Health Officer, Dr. Bonnie Henry announced changes to Assisted Living and Long Term Care Guidelines related to COVID -19, on Tuesday June 30, 2020. Over the next 7 to 10 days, they have asked these Care Providers to prepare written safety plans to facilitate single designated visitors to single designated areas at Care Providing Sites. As a result, we will be working to address their requirements as quickly as possible. We know that residents and families are eagerly awaiting this opportunity, and as soon as more detailed information is available, including the status of Sites and their readiness to safely receive visitors, we will share that information with you directly by email. https://news.gov.bc.ca/release...
As the restrictions in BC are easing, we wanted to remind you that we do need to proceed with caution. We do not want to undo all of the progress we have made, and it is still very important to follow proper hand hygiene, physical distancing and the medical health officers’ orders. Our updates will continue to offer reminders of what those orders and recommendations are. We will share more details next week about the reopening of our dining room, the visitation guidelines, and time frames for those changes.
On Wednesday, we delivered special cupcakes to our residents, made and decorated by one of our cooks to celebrate Canada Day. Due to popular demand, Kendra, our Recreation Manger, will offer 4 additional exercise classes each week starting on Monday! This will bring our total to 9 exercise classes each week, and residents who are interested can now sign up for two classes per week. They can also add their name to a waitlist if they are interested in attending more than two classes. These programs are in addition to the daily virtual programming that we offer via Zoom, and the Gardening/Patio Relaxation programs that occur three times per week. All of our in-person programs are limited to 5 residents, and they must sign-up in advance!
In addition, Kendra has started a Library pick-up/drop-off hour which will occur each week. The library space is still closed to residents, but they can come downstairs at the designated time with requests and Kendra will search the stacks for them to find books. When books are returned to the library, they will be quarantined for a minimum of 3 days before they are available to be borrowed again.
Thank you again for all of your support and understanding, and we hope you all have a good week!
With gratitude,
Terraces on 7th Management Team
