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

Dear Residents, Families, and Associates of Byron Park, Over the course of the last 24 hours our individual testing results for the 52 assisted living neighborhood residents who had been quarantined after the 12/28 pooled saliva test date have returned. We have one active case of COVID19 at Byron Park, gratefully this resident is doing well and is asymptomatic and will continue to shelter in place in their apartment until… Read More

Dear Residents, Families, and Associates of Byron Park, We have identified the ONE positive associate from the 12/21 testing date. This associate is stable and will remain at home until cleared by County Health Officials. The source of exposure is known to have been outside of Byron Park and this individual does not provide any direct care to residents. We are confident that there has not been any community transmission…. Read More

Dear Residents, Families, and Associates of Byron Park, A few days ago, I shared that our week of Monday December 14th, 2020 testing had produced the same results during both testing rounds. The results were: A positive pool for associate # 1 which includes about 40 associates and negative results for all associates in Pool # 2 and all residents. As a reminder we conduct twice a week (Tuesday and… Read More

Dear Residents, Families, and Associates of Byron Park, I had shared yesterday that one of our pools from our testing date of December 15th, 2020 has tested positive for COVID19. All residents, associates in Pool #2 and essential visitors were negative. As a reminder we conduct twice a week ongoing pooled polymerase chain reaction (PCR) testing, which requires the collection of a small amount of saliva that we send (in… Read More

Dear Residents, Families, and Associates of Byron Park, I wanted to share an update to the COVID19 status of our community. One of our pools from our testing date of December 15th, 2020 has tested positive for COVID19. All residents and the associates in Pool 2 and providers (essential visitors, nurses, therapists etc.) were negative. We immediately began individual nasal PCR testing to identify the positive associate. This pool consists… Read More

Dear Residents, Families, and Associates of Byron Park, Happy Hanukkah! We kicked off our December holidays with a beautiful reading and evening of celebration, music, delicious food and transformed our courtyard into a winter wonderland! Follow, like and subscribe to our Facebook and Instagram for photos and videos! As a follow up to our previous communication, we continue to be clear of COVID19. We have completed 6 rounds and three… Read More

Dear Residents, Families, and Associates of Byron Park, On Friday November 20th, 2020, we shared that one of the associate pools tested positive for COVID19 from our Thursday November 19th pooled testing date. We immediately began individual nasal PCR testing for associates and were able to identify one associate who was positive for COVID-19. In partnership with the healthcare authorities (Contra Costa Public Health) and the Department of Social Services,… Read More

Dear Residents, Families, and Associates of Byron Park, On Friday November 20th, 2020, we shared that one of the associate pools tested positive for COVID19 from our Thursday November 19th test date. All residents and the associates in Pool 2 were negative on November 19th. We immediately began individual nasal PCR testing. As a reminder we regularly conduct ongoing pooled polymerase chain reaction (PCR) testing, which requires the collection of… Read More