COVID-19 PROTECTION: Assisted Living Building: TERRACE EAST

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TERRACE EAST – ASSISTED LIVING BUILDING

In order to follow the Assisted Living Registrar’s directives and the Public Health Officer’s Order to practice social distancing (6 ft away from each other), Menno Apartments is putting into place:

  1. Terrace East will accept Essential Visitors ONLY. This is ONLY for palliative residents and one at a time per day. One visit per day. Residents must be assessed as palliative by their doctor. These are ORDERS from the Assisted Living Registrar. Menno Place must comply.
  2. Groceries (essential ONLY) can be dropped off at TE Main Entrance during Reception hours ONLY. Monday – Friday: 8:30am – 4pm.
  3. Independent Living residents in TE (no care plan) will be under the same restrictions as the other residents in order to minimize risk of COVID-19 entering the building.
  4. Personal laundry and housekeeping will be done in-house by Menno Place staff. Details to be worked out shortly. Please notify Reception if you have a personal housekeeper or have someone who provides personal laundry services for you.
  5. Lunch meal will be served at your Apartment suite door beginning Thursday, March 26th. Dining room will be closed to all. This is in place until further notice.
  6. Only one door will be open for you to use to enter and exit the building – the front door. This is so that we can monitor who is coming and going through our building.
  7. Practice Social Distancing. It will help you to figure this out if you imagine yourself already being infected. You don’t want to infect others, so you stay 6 feet away from them.
  8. Lounges, bistro and wellness areas are closed until further notice.
  9. Recreation and Chaplains are going to do a survey to see what you need and what you’d like to keep you going through this strange time when you are asked to stay in your apartment suite most of the time.
  10. Recreation will be providing fun stuff to do in your Apartment suite. Tune in on channel 10 next week. We are creating programs for you to enjoy.
  11. Recreation will be bringing a library and puzzle cart around for you to get new books and puzzles each week.
  12. The chaplains will be providing spiritual care on channel 10 and you can also ask them to come to your apartment door to connect with you.
  13. You can go for walks. Stay 6 feet away from anyone, including your friend who is walking with you. You can take your scooter out and drive around. When you go out, don’t touch anything.
  14. DO NOT go to Abbotsford Regional Hospital unless you have an appointment there.
  15. We encourage you to get your medication delivered from a pharmacy. Rexall in Pavilion is closed. Please arrange medication delivery by pharmacy to your suite.
  16. One person in the elevator at a time.
  17. The best thing you can do for your own safety and the safety of everyone else in this building is to stay in your own apartment suite. If you are driving, it’s time to stop going out.
  18. How do you get groceries and supplies? Recreation will bring a tuck cart to each floor every week with basic groceries such as milk, eggs, toilet paper, bread. If you need other groceries your family or friend can bring those to Reception. Billing for tuck cart will be direct to your monthly billing statement. No cash or credit. You can ask a friend or family member to deliver groceries to Reception.
  19. Soap kills this COVID-19 virus. Wash your hands OFTEN – before and after using the bathroom, eating, going out of your apartment for an appointment and when you get into your Apartment building – before you go to your own suite and AGAIN when you enter your suite.
  20. Recreation is starting a Buddy Phone System where you can pair up with somebody else in your apartment building to chat every once in a while.