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
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
Over the past nine months, close to 300,000 Americans have lost their lives due to Covid-19. Less than 1% of the US population is over 80 years of age, yet this segment represents over 40% of those who have been killed by this deadly disease. At Kisco our top priority from the beginning of the pandemic has been to keep residents and associates as safe as possible, and we are… Read More
Dear Residents, Families, Associates, and Friends of The Fountains; We currently have two associates in dining service that tested positive for COVID-19. We completed an investigation to confirm proper face mask usage and hand hygiene were utilized along with contact tracing for all involved. Thankfully our community is conducting twice weekly pooled saliva tests so we are able to slow, if not stop, the spread of COVID-19. We received the… Read More
Dear Residents, Families, Associates, and Friends of The Fountains; Weekly we receive the results of our community pooled saliva testing. There are no residents or private caregivers that tested positive for COVID-19 at this time. We did receive a positive result in one of our associate testing pools. We completed PCR tests on all associates in that group. One of our wellness associates has tested positive for COVID-19. We conducted… Read More
Dear Residents, Families, Associates, and Friends of The Fountains; We received the results of this week’s community pooled saliva testing. There are no residents, associates, or private caregivers that tested positive for COVID-19. We continue to have one associate out of the community that tested positive last week. This associate is doing well and we are hopeful they will return to work next week. We are excited to spend the… Read More
Dear Residents, Families, Associates, and Friends of The Fountains; Last week we had a positive result in one of our associates pooled saliva test groups. The community completed PCR COVID-19 testing right away for all associates within that group. Unfortunately, one of our associates tested positive yesterday that was on vacation. We have completed the contact tracing and are following the CDC protocol. The associate reported they always wore their… Read More
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2020 | 7:30AM – 10AM Join us at The Fountains for our much anticipated annual Toy Drive-Thru in support of the ‘His Place Ministries’ Toy Drive. We believe sharing our time and resources is one of the most important contributions we can make to the communities we serve. Please stop by The Fountains on Friday, November 20th, and drop off a new (unwrapped) toy and we’ll treat… Read More
Dear Residents, Families, Associates, and Friends of The Fountains; Last week we received a positive result in one of our associates pooled saliva groups. The community completed PCR testing right away. We currently have two associates in our wellness department and one associate in our assisted living department that tested positive for COVID-19. Thankfully, we complete weekly pooled saliva test because these associates do not have any symptoms and no… Read More
Dear Residents, Families, Associates, and Friends of The Fountains; We received the results of this week’s community pooled saliva tests and all residents, associates, and private caregivers tested negative. Great Job, Everyone! We continue to have no residents test positive for COVID-19, and one assisted living associate currently out due to testing positive. This associate is feeling better and hopefully will return to work next week. Over half of our… Read More