Update: Outings during Outbreak (E1 Hospital & W2 Hospital)

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“Outbreak” is an official status for an area / unit on the campus set by the Public Health Officer. Each day, the COVID Outbreak Lead at Menno Place connects with Public Health to discuss (among other things) the specifics of COVID positives, transmission, symptomatic residents and staff. The Public Health Officer then interacts with the Medical Health Officer to discuss any new parameters. When the MHO puts a unit/area on Outbreak, the MHO then provides the infection control protocols for us to follow to contain the spread of COVID.
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At this time, E1 Hospital and W2 Hospital are on Outbreak

These are the protocols for outings when an area/unit is on outbreak:

Social Outings: When an area is on outbreak, there are no social outings for any residents living in that area.

Essential Outings: If a resident has an essential outing, such as a medical appointment, family must call the service provider (eg: dentist) to inform them of the outbreak and ask if the service provider will accept the resident for the appointment. If so, please call nursing on the unit to arrange. If not, please re-book that outing appropriately and inform nursing on the unit.

HOSPITAL COVID UPDATE – JANUARY 17, 2022 – E1, E2, W2

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The situation on each unit in Menno Hospital is rapidly changing. Please take note of how it is changing for your loved one in the location that they live in Menno Hospital. Not all of the COVID positives are transmitted in the workplace. This is due to the high prevalence of COVID in our community. Please pray for the staff who are working in these conditions, particularly the ones who are working with droplet precautions as they are in Hospital E1. They are also covering work for their co-workers who are off sick with COVID. This is difficult. We are getting help with staff needs from Fraser Health. Symptoms reported are said to be mild for both staff and residents. This is still an unknown for our residents as we do not fully understand the impact of COVID on a frail, elderly individual with pre-existing health issues.

Thank you for your patience – the leadership team is working very hard to address concerns with staffing and COVID management / infection protocols as the highest priority for residents living in Menno Hospital. We are grateful for the dedication of our Menno Hospital team members. If you’d like to encourage them, please email: Connect@MennoPlace.ca with your encouragement. Many of you know the staff by name. They’d love to hear from you!

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HOSPITAL E1: NOW ON OUTBREAK

NEW COVID POSITIVE CASES = 8 residents | 0 staff

TOTAL COVID POSITIVE CASES = 34 (21 residents | 13 staff:  5 returned to work)

MOST RECENT COVID CASE = January 17, 2022

INDEX CASE = January 3, 2022 (staff)

Menno Hospital E1 has been placed on Outbreak. This is a status that involves reporting directly to a Fraser Health Outbreak lead to provide guidance in measures to take to curb the transmission of COVID as best as possible.

  • All residents remain on droplet precautions – isolation and full PPE for staff and essential visits
  • Only VERY ESSENTIAL visits, no social visits
  • Audits continue – hand hygiene audit, PPE audit, environmental audit
  • All communal activity including dining stopped
  • All families of affected residents are contacted
  • Staff to using dining room as their cohorted break room
  • Staff to use patio entrance to enter and exit the unit
  • Any symptomatic residents will be swabbed for COVID

HOSPITAL E2

NEW COVID POSITIVE CASES = 1 staff

TOTAL COVID POSITIVE CASES = 3 (0 residents | 3 staff)

MOST RECENT COVID CASE = January 17, 2022

INDEX CASE = January 12, 2022 (staff)

3 symptomatic residents all came back with negative test results. This is great news!

  • Staff to add goggles to mask wearing
  • Screening twice per day for staff and residents
  • No other restrictions at this time – essential and designated social visitors permitted (10am – 6pm is best)
  • E2 staff to enter the unit via the patio entrance

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HOSPITAL W2: NOW ON OUTBREAK

NEW COVID POSITIVE CASES = 0

TOTAL COVID POSITIVE CASES = 2 (0 residents | 2 staff)

MOST RECENT COVID CASE = January 15, 2022

INDEX CASE = January 10, 2022 (staff)

As we have symptomatic residents with pending swabs – 2 pending, the Public Health Officer has placed W2 on OUTBREAK. This is a status that involves reporting directly to a Fraser Health Outbreak lead to provide guidance in measures to take to curb the transmission of COVID as best as possible. This status may change again if all residents with pending swabs come back negative.

1 resident swab done yesterday came back negative. Great news!

  • Staff to add goggles to mask wearing
  • Screening twice per day for staff and residents
  • Only essential visitors
  • No droplet isolation for residents unless they are symptomatic
  • W2 staff to take their break in the w1 staff room
  • All  group activities including communal dining to be stopped

 

HOSPITAL COVID UPDATE – JANUARY 16, 2022 – E1, E2, W2

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HOSPITAL E1: ENHANCED MONITORING

NEW COVID POSITIVE CASES = 2 residents | 1 staff

TOTAL COVID POSITIVE CASES = 26 (13 residents | 13 staff:  5 returned to work)

MOST RECENT COVID CASE = January 15, 2022

INDEX CASE = January 3, 2022 (staff)

Menno Hospital E1 continues on Enhanced Monitoring.

5 swabs of residents are pending results | 2 symptomatic residents (swabbed today)

  • Only VERY ESSENTIAL visits, no social visits
  • Audits continue – hand hygiene audit, PPE audit, environmental audit
  • All communal activity including dining stopped
  • All residents placed on droplet precautions – isolation and full PPE for staff and essential visits
  • All families of affected residents will be contacted.
  • Any symptomatic residents will be swabbed for COVID

HOSPITAL E2

NEW COVID POSITIVE CASES = 1 staff

TOTAL COVID POSITIVE CASES = 2 (0 residents | 2 staff)

MOST RECENT COVID CASE = January 15, 2022

INDEX CASE = January 12, 2022 (staff)

3 residents symptomatic (swabbed today)

  • Staff to add goggles to mask wearing
  • Screening twice per day for staff and residents
  • No other restrictions at this time – essential and designated social visitors permitted (10am – 6pm is best)

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HOSPITAL W2

NEW COVID POSITIVE CASES = 1 staff

TOTAL COVID POSITIVE CASES = 2 (0 residents | 2 staff)

MOST RECENT COVID CASE = January 15, 2022

INDEX CASE = January 10, 2022 (staff)

2 residents symptomatic (swabbed today)

  • Staff to add goggles to mask wearing
  • Screening twice per day for staff and residents
  • No other restrictions at this time – essential and designated social visitors permitted (10am – 6pm is best)

 

 

HOSPITAL COVID UPDATE – JANUARY 15, 2022 – E1

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HOSPITAL E1

NEW COVID POSITIVE CASES = 5 residents + 0 staff 

TOTAL COVID POSITIVE CASES = 23 (11 residents | 12 staff)

MOST RECENT COVID CASE = January 14, 2022

INDEX CASE = January 3, 2022

Menno Hospital E1 continues on Enhanced Monitoring. Additional residents were found to be COVID positive. Two residents are still awaiting swab results. Families are being notified. Staff who were COVID positive at the beginning of this transmission (January 3, 2022) have begun returning to work.

  • Only VERY ESSENTIAL visits, no social visits
  • Audits continue – hand hygiene audit, PPE audit, environmental audit
  • All communal activity including dining stopped
  • All residents placed on droplet precautions – isolation and full PPE for staff and essential visits
  • All families of affected residents will be contacted.
  • Any symptomatic residents will be swabbed for COVID

HOSPITAL W2 – CLICK for most recent update

No changes to report – Essential visitors only
Index Case: 1 staff | January 12, 2022

HOSPITAL E2 – CLICK for most recent update

No changes to report – Essential visitors only
Index Case: 1 staff | January 12, 2022

HOSPITAL COVID UPDATE – JANUARY 14, 2022 – E1

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HOSPITAL E1

NEW COVID POSITIVE CASES = 1 resident + 3 staff 

TOTAL COVID POSITIVE CASES = 18 (6 residents | 12 staff)

MOST RECENT COVID CASE = January 14, 2022

 

Menno Hospital E1 is now on Enhanced Monitoring. Most of the COVID positive residents are asymptomatic at this time.

  • Only VERY ESSENTIAL visits, no social visits
  • Audits continue – hand hygiene audit, PPE audit, environmental audit
  • All communal activity including dining stopped
  • All residents placed on droplet precautions – isolation and full PPE for staff and essential visits
  • All families of affected residents will be contacted.
  • Any symptomatic residents will be swabbed for COVID

HOSPITAL W2 – No update

HOSPITAL E2 – No update

HOSPITAL COVID UPDATE – JANUARY 13, 2022 – E1, W2, E2

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Moving foward, you will receive one report for all units in Menno Hospital. With omicron at record-high prevalence in our community, we are facing daily changes in protocols and supplies (rapid tests). We thank each of you for your patience with our team as we organize and re-orient to the ever-changing information and protocols for residents and visitors.

HOSPITAL E1 – COVID Positive = 7 staff, 4 residents

NEW COVID POSITIVE CASES = 2 staff + 1 resident

TOTAL COVID POSITIVE CASES = 14 (5 residents | 9 staff)

MOST RECENT COVID CASE = January 13, 2022

 

We are sorry to report that we now have 5 residents who tested positive for COVID.

  • E1 Hospital is now on Blanket Precaution (a new term describing specific protocols)
  • All visits will be stopped except VERY ESSENTIAL visits
  • All communal activity including dining stopped
  • All residents placed on droplet precautions – isolation and full PPE for staff and essential visits
  • All families of affected residents will be contacted (primary contact).

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HOSPITAL W2 – COVID Positive = 1 staff

NEW COVID POSITIVE CASES = 1 staff

TOTAL COVID POSITIVE CASES = 1 (0 residents | 1 staff)

MOST RECENT COVID CASE = January 12, 2022

 

  • Point Prevalence Testing on W2
  • Nursing will communicate with affected resident’s primary contact
  • Enhanced Monitoring until January 14th if no further spread of COVID
  • No group activities until January 14th
  • Stagger meal times and ensure physical distancing during meal times
  • Staff to add goggles to mask wearing
  • Screening twice per day for staff and residents
  • Essential Visitors only at this time.

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HOSPITAL E2 – COVID Positive = 1 staff

NEW COVID POSITIVE CASES = 1 staff

TOTAL COVID POSITIVE CASES = 1 (0 residents | 1 staff)

MOST RECENT COVID CASE = January 12, 2022

 

We are sorry to report that we have a COVID positive staff member who worked on E2 Hospital.

At this time, only Essential Visitors may visit.

We will be reaching out to the primary contacts of affected residents shortly.

 

Visits to Menno Home and Menno Hospital – What changes January 1, 2022?

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January 1 – 18 (date of reassessment) – Essential Visitors Only in long-term care – Menno Home and Menno Hospital

Only Essential visitors may enter long-term care homes effective January 1, 2022. This order from Dr. Bonnie Henry will be reassessed on January 18th.

Essential visitors are only set up with the nursing team in conjunction with the resident’s care plan. Essential visitors are being contacted by our nursing team – these visitors are based on the current resident care plan. Screening and rapid testing (2x per week) will be required for all essential visitors.

https://bc.ctvnews.ca/b-c-bringing-back-visitor…
Assisted Living: Social visits permitted with negative rapid test
Independent Living: Self-Screening for visitors. Rapid tests not available at this time due to limited inventory.
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What is an essential visit? (Fraser Health definition): Essential visits are necessarily linked with an essential need identified in the care plan that could not be met in the absence of the essential visit. Essential visits are those that include, but are not limited to2:
• Visits for compassionate care, including critical illness, palliative care, hospice care, end of life
• Visits paramount to the resident’s physical care and mental well-being, including:
o Assistance with feeding
o Assistance with mobility
o Assistance with personal care
o Communication assistance for persons with hearing, visual, speech, cognitive, intellectual or memory impairments
o Assistance by designated representatives for persons with disabilities, including provision of emotional support
• Visits for supported decision making
• Visits required to move belongings in or out of resident’s room
• Police, correctional officers and peace officers accompanying a resident for security reasons

Have you received your 3rd booster? If eligible, go now!

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Don’t hesitate to get your 3rd shot – booster dose

With the rapid rise of the Omicron variant, we strongly encourage all visitors to Menno Place to be fully vaccinated, including a 3rd booster shot.

There are studies that show that the efficacy of the 3rd booster increases effectiveness against omicron to 88% (from 52% for 2 shots) – CLICK HERE

On December 31st, Dr. Bonnie Henry and her team of provincial leaders announced a significant push to provide 3rd booster shots in the month of January.

If you are over 60 and it has been 6 months since your 2nd shot, you are eligible to go immediately to get your 3rd booster. You can use the online appointment interface to book an appointment or to re-book one that is not as early. BOOK YOUR BOOSTER DOSE

Thank you, again, for doing everything you can to keep the residents and staff of Menno Place safe!

Visitors to Independent Living – Pavilion, Terrace West, Primrose Gardens

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KEEPING YOUR LOVED ONE AND THEIR NEIGHBOURS SAFE

As the prevalence of COVID increases in our community, please use all the safety measures available to keep your loved one and their neighbours safe.

Although the Public Health Order calls for rapid testing for all visitors on the Menno Place campus, the inventory does not allow for rapid testing at the Independent Living Apartments. Please continue to self-screen (no symptoms), practice safe distance from others (6ft), wear a mask at all times (even with your loved one) and use hand hygiene (frequently) in order to enter the apartment building.

Continue to advise your loved one of all the layers of protection. We heard today from the Medical Health Officer that the efficacy of the vaccine increases from 60% to 75% with the 3rd booster shot. If your loved one is not fully vaccinated, please encourage them to become fully vaccinated.

Currently, our vaccination rates in the Apartments are:

Fully vaccinated (2 shots plus booster):

  • Pavilion: 69%
  • Terrace West: 79%
  • Primrose Gardens: 77%
  • Terrace East: 93%

On Dec. 31, 2021, Dr. Bonnie Henry, BC Public Health Officer announced that only essential visitors will be allowed to visit residents in long-term care: Menno Home and Menno Hospital – CLICK HERE FOR ANNOUNCEMENT

Assisted Living (Terrace East) continues social visits for residents with rapid test.

Independent Living continues social visits for vaccinated visitors.