We our dedicated to staying on top of the latest health care industry breakthroughs and developments. Below you will find a selection of articles related to our center, the skilled nursing care industry and other health care related news from around the world.
May 3, 2021 Dear Families, This week, we celebrate National Nurses Week, which begins on May 6th each year since 1974 and ends on May 12th, in honor of Florence Nightingale’s birthday. Next week, we begin celebrating National Skilled Nursing Care Week (formerly National Nursing Home Week). This year’s theme is “Together Through the Seasons.”… 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. Considering these encouraging numbers, we will begin to take a slightly different approach with these weekly email updates to you, focusing more on recreation activities taking… Continue Reading Continue reading
April 1, 2021 Dear Families, Overall, no significant changes to our center or our visitation plans, which are based on our state’s response to the CDC and CMS guidance. Please note that over the past week, our community has seen an uptick in positive cases. We continue to monitor these numbers and urge you to… 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 16, 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
March 8, 2021 Dear Families, It looks like we will see an early burst of spring this week. Our goal is to get everyone some fresh air and sunshine this week! Our Covid 19 status is negative for all residents and staff. As you well know, this week marks one year that every nursing home… 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 12, 2020 Dear Families, As always, we hope this letter finds you safe and healthy as we begin the New Year Our current facility status is Covid-19 negative As you know by now, our staff and residents have completed two COVID-19 vaccination clinics, with the majority of our eligible staff and residents now having… Continue Reading Continue reading
February 8, 2021 Dear Families, As always, we hope this letter finds you safe and healthy! Our Covid 19 status is currently negative for our building as all staff and residents have tested negative. As you know by now, our staff and residents have completed two COVID-19 vaccination clinics, with the majority of our… Continue Reading Continue reading
Dear Families, As always, we hope this letter finds you safe and healthy. We did have a staff member test positive on Thursday 1/21/21. To date after two rounds of building testing all residents are negative, as well as all staff with the exception of the one positive. The employee last worked 1/17/21 and has… Continue Reading Continue reading
