We our dedicated to staying on top of the latest health care industry breakthroughs and developments. Below you will find a selection of articles related to our center, the skilled nursing care industry and other health care related news from around the world.
December 29 , 2020 Dear Families, As always, our team and I hope this email finds you safe and healthy. We currently do not have any residents that are positive. We had two staff members test positive yesterday. Neither of the staff members were direct care providers. We will be testing all of our staff… Continue Reading Continue reading
December 15, 2020 Dear Families, The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has found a COVID-19 vaccine to be safe and effective, and our facility will be able to give the vaccine to residents and staff. This is very encouraging news. We will begin giving the vaccine to residents on Monday, December 21, 2020.… Continue Reading Continue reading
December 11 , 2020 Dear Families, As always, our team and I hope this email finds you safe and healthy. We continue to have no new positive resident or staff cases. We have two very important updates to share with you today: Vaccine Update As you may have seen in the news, some exciting… Continue Reading Continue reading
Please see the below for an Update on the COVID-19 Pandemic: Facility Sheet… Continue reading
Facility COVID Info Sheet December 4 , 2020 Dear Families, As always, our team and I hope this email finds you safe and healthy. We are happy to report that we have not had any new positive test results this week for residents or staff. We are still required to have 14 days of… Continue Reading Continue reading
Dear Families, As always, our team and I hope this email finds you safe and healthy. We are happy to report that we have not had any new positive test results this week for residents or staff. We have one resident who is considered COVID positive however is not currently in the building at this… Continue Reading Continue reading
We continue to test all of our staff on a weekly basis. We currently have no positive staff members. We still have 4 residents that are positive, three of them will be considered recovered this week. As the state’s positivity rate continues to climb, during the week of December 1-10, the state is directing nursing… Continue Reading Continue reading
Please see the attached letter from the Connecticut Department of Health regarding staying safe and healthy during the upcoming Holiday Season. https://athenahealthcare.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/11-20-20-letter-to-LTC.fam_.holiday.pdf… Continue reading
November 20, 2020 Dear Families, As you may have seen, more than 60% of Connecticut nursing homes now have at least one COVID-19 positive resident and/or employee case. Community spread of this insidious virus is affecting nearly every community in our immediate region and the state. We had one new resident test positive for COVID-19… Continue Reading Continue reading
November 11, 2020 Dear Families, Last week, more than 50 nursing homes across the state reported staff and/or new resident cases of COVID-19 in their centers. Unfortunately, we had two more residents test positive this week. We currently have four residents that are positive. All four of our residents are on the isolation unit. We… Continue Reading Continue reading
