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