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May 09, 2021 Dear Families, Happy Mother’s Day to all our Mom’s out there, you Rock! This week, we begin celebrating National Skilled Nursing Care Week (formerly National Nursing Home Week). This year’s theme is “Together Through the Seasons.” NSNCW begins on Sunday, May 9, Mother’s Day and runs through May 15. The theme will… Continue Reading Continue reading
April 29, 2021 Dear Families, Here we are, another week closer to warmer, spring-like weather. Great news for us all to get back outside and enjoy the fresh air and some sunshine. As we have mentioned before in these updates, our outside visits remain the recommended means of visitation for nursing home residents and families,… Continue Reading Continue reading
April 14, 2021 Dear Families, We hope this email finds you healthy and as optimistic as we are about the continuing decline in COVID cases in our surrounding community. Within our own facility we are again COVID RECOVERED! Considering these encouraging numbers, we will begin to take a slightly different approach with these weekly email… Continue Reading Continue reading
April 4, 2021 Dear Families, Recently we have had some changes to our centers visitation plans, which are based on our state’s response to the CDC and CMS guidance are in place at this time. Please note that over the past week, our community has seen an uptick in positive cases. We continue to… Continue Reading Continue reading
March 18, 2021 Dear Families, At long last – we have new guidance from the CDC on nursing home visitation! This new guidance reflects updates to address the vaccination of residents and individuals from the community, as well as the decrease in community spread and changes to visitation during an “outbreak.” While the CDC release… Continue Reading Continue reading
Click below for an update on our visitation plan, based on CDC guidance, effective 3/16/2021: Visitation Guidance (MA)… Continue reading
March 10, 2021 Dear Families, It looks like we are seeing an early burst of spring this week. Our goal is to get everyone some fresh air and sunshine this week! Our current COVID status is COVID FREE! As you well know, this week marks one year that every nursing home in our… Continue Reading Continue reading
February 24, 2021 Dear Families, As always, we hope this letter finds you safe and healthy. Our current COVID status continues to be COVID FREE, with no new residents or staff testing positive. Our leadership team wants to Thank our entire staff for their hard work and continued dedication to our residents.… Continue Reading Continue reading
COVID-19 Prev ProtocolsPostVaccinationLTCFamily Comm_2.23.21 Please see the link for the Massachusetts Visitation Guidelines for February 19, 2021 https://athenahealthcare.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/COVID-19-Prev-ProtocolsPostVaccinationLTCFamily-Comm_2.23.21.pdf… Continue reading
February 16, 2021 Dear Families, As always, we hope this letter finds you safe and healthy. Our current COVID status is COVID FREE! With no new residents or staff testing positive in the last two weeks. This also means our hairdresser is back! Call ahead to book your loved ones next beauty visit. As you… Continue Reading Continue reading
