Dear Residents & Family of Magnolia Glen: We are extremely excited to start the COVID-19 vaccination process on January 20th, 2021 for all residents at Magnolia Glen! We have partnered with Walgreens to facilitate 3 onsite COVID-19 vaccine clinics on January 20th, February 17th, and March 17th respectively. The team at Magnolia Glen has been diligently preparing for what we hope will be a successful and emotionally rewarding day. We… Read More
Woodbridge Terrace of Irvine: Update From Operations
Dear Residents & Families of Woodridge Terrace of Irvine; Through our ongoing Covid testing, we have identified 3 residents and 2 associates that are positive for Covid-19. These residents are recovering and have been isolated. Associates are recovering at home. While identifying the presence of Covid is always unnerving, frequent testing allows us to identify and isolate positive individuals before large outbreaks can materialize. We will continue to keep you… Read More
Abbotswood at Stonehenge: Update From The Executive Director
Dear Residents and Families of Abbotswood at Stonehenge, On Monday, we submitted a total of 5 pools for saliva testing plus an additional 38 resident throat swabs, for a total of 243 individuals tested. While all resident and essential visitor pools were negative, 2 of the 5 pools did come back as positive. Follow-up testing was conducted on Wednesday and Thursday for the 2 positive pools, which consisted of a… Read More
BridgePoint at Los Altos: Update From The Executive Director
Dear Residents, Families and Associates of BridgePoint at Los Altos: We currently have a total of 5 positive cases – 3 associates and 2 residents. The associates are at home quarantining and will not return until cleared by a physician. The 2 positive residents are under quarantine. We are extremely excited for our first vaccine clinic set for Tuesday January 19th! Walgreens will be on site from 9 am to… Read More
Drake Terrace: Update From The Executive Director
Dear Residents, Associates, and Family Members of Drake Terrace: I am very happy to share that after discussing our situation with Marin Public Health the quarantine for Memory Care and Assisted Living has been lifted. Please note that if we identify any positive residents in assisted living during our surveillance testing, we may have to quarantine again. As a reminder, our covid guidelines are not an off and on switch… Read More
Byron Park: Update From The Executive Director
Dear Residents, Families, and Associates of Byron Park, This letter is to update you on the status of our community. One of our independent living resident pools has come back positive from yesterday’s (January 13th, 2021) testing date. Individual testing of these 40 residents is in progress and will be overnighted to our lab partner today. We should expect results to filter through in the next 48 hours. These 40… Read More
The Fountains of Melbourne Vaccine Clinic
On Wednesday, January 13, The Fountains of Melbourne, a Kisco Senior Living Community, offered residents and associates the COVID-19 vaccine. The Fountains has been preparing for the vaccine for weeks working with its pharmacy partner, CVS, and the CDC. While the vaccine is optional, many residents were anxious to receive it and happy to share their experience with the media. You can learn more about the vaccine clinic by visiting… Read More
The Fountains: Update From The Executive Director
Dear Residents, Families, Associates, and Friends of The Fountains; We continue to have no residents that have tested positive for COVID-19 and currently have no associates or private caregivers that have tested positive. The Fountains chose CVS Pharmacy using the Pfizer vaccine for our clinic. We have received the dates for our vaccination clinic. Our community vaccination clinics will be as follows: January 13th February 3rd February 24th The Fountains… Read More
Abbotswood at Stonehenge: Update From The Executive Director
Dear Residents and Families of Abbotswood at Stonehenge, Last Thursday we tested a total of 136 individuals, consisting of essential visitors, private duty caregivers and associates of Abbotswood, Aware and Legacy. Testing methods included the use of saliva samples and nasal swabs. I am pleased to report that all 136 tests were negative! Under any conditions that would be good news, but it is especially great considering the ongoing rise… Read More
The Cardinal at North Hills: Update From The Executive Director
Dear Residents, Families, and Associates of The Cardinal, I am sending this letter to inform you that we had two Independent Living Residents test positive for COVID-19 yesterday afternoon. These two residents reside in the same apartment and are currently isolating in their home. We strongly believe that these cases are related to the positive IL pool group we had last Monday, January 4th. On Friday, we re-tested several associates… Read More