Update for Easter Weekend – The Apartments – 10/04/20

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Update – 10/04/20

How will you know if Menno Place has COVID-19?

We will tell you. It will be tweeted on Twitter.com/MennoPlaceAlert which will be visible on multiple websites, including the Family and Friends website – MennoPlaceLife.com/Coronavirus

We are committed to telling you the location of COVID-19 if we have a positive case – building and unit.

Visiting:

  • Now is the time to be careful – very careful. Do not tempt your loved one to get close to you in a visit, even on this beautiful Easter Weekend where you are used to having family gather together.

Dropping your groceries off:

  • Beginning on Tuesday, April 14, all groceries dropped off at Reception or Kitchen.
  • Menno Place will wipe down and deliver to your loved one.

Tuck Cart:

The priority for the tuck cart will be for the residents who do not have a registered visitor. Recreation staff are doing a one-on-one survey with residents to find out their need of the Grocery Tuck Cart. Orders for supplies are being made through our central purchasing. Billing is direct to the resident’s monthly billing statement (no money exchanged at purchase).

Menno TV:

We have a complete television channel! Wow! Three weeks ago this did not exist. This channel is streamed directly through Channel 10 (Apartments) and Channel 59 (Home/Hospital). It is a combination of live programming, including devotions each morning as well as exercises, bingo, riddles and fun! We are so proud of our amazing Recreation Team (Timea and Rebecca) and Chaplains (John, Ingrid and Ingrid) for creating the schedule and all of the programming!

Here is the TV Guide – Click Here – Devotions on Wednesday morning has been changed from 11:30 to 11:00am. We are also streaming multiple local church services now. Thank you to Central Heights, Emmanuel Mennonite, Bakerview and Clearbrook MB! What a blessing!

Mail:

  • Mail is being delivered in a bag to our Apartments by Canada Post every Friday.
  • We are sitting that mail in a secure office for 48 hours.
  • We are delivering mail door-to-door.
  • Grocery and mail delivery will happen between 1:30-3:30pm each day in every apartment building.

Active Screening:

We are asking the 5 Active Screening for COVID-19 questions every day to every person who lives in the apartments. We have organized someone to go along with the dietary team and ask these questions at every lunch service. Residents who live in Terrace East will be screened twice a day (minimum) at meal service. Those who receive support through Fraser Health are also asked these five questions before their personal care giver will enter their suite.

  1. Do you have a fever?
  2. Do you have a new or worsening cough?
  3. Do you have a new or worsening sore throat?
  4. Do you have a new or worsening sneezing?
  5. Do you have a new or worsening shortness of breath?

If there is a “yes”, the primary contact for that individual will be notified.

Our staff are actively screened 2x per day – at the beginning and the end of their shift.

This is the poster that is on each apartment suite door.

Masks:

  • We are asking that you wear a mask and provide a mask to your loved one when you come to provide key services.
  • We have asked the community for mask donations so that we can supply masks to residents.
  • Staff are wearing PPE (personal protective equipment) at all times.
  • PPE at this time (no COVID-19 outbreak) is goggles and

Focus of Support:

We have over 170 Registered Visitors (click here to register)

Our focus of support at this time is for the 51 seniors who do not have a Registered Visitor to support them. They will receive masks first and will have the tuck cart as a priority. Our goal is to register a visitor for each of our residents. Life Enrichment Coordinators, Nik Van Egdom and Garry Janzen are working on this by phoning each of the primary contacts to encourage registration. Rebecca and Timea (Recreation) are doing a survey with the residents asking them if they need support. They are focusing on this group of 51 to see if we can find a way to support them.

Zoom Calls:

These are going to be available first to Home, Hospital and Terrace East where there is a No Visitor policy and the residents are less able to use the phone to connect. We may be able to roll this out in the apartments if we have the staff to do so.