Dear Residents & Families of Abbotswood at Stonehenge, On Monday, we completed saliva testing for our residents, essential visitors, private duty caregivers and Abbotswood, Aware and Legacy associates. It was our largest overall testing number since we began the saliva testing, and I am happy to report that each of the pool results were negative. That is no small accomplishment and is a reason for thanksgiving in and of itself! … Read More
BridgePoint at Los Altos: Update From The Executive Director
Dear Residents, Families and Associates of BridgePoint at Los Altos: As you already know, a pool of 1st floor residents and associates, not including care associates, tested positive on Sunday, November 15th. On November 18th, we completed naso-swab tests for each individual in this pool. As of this morning, we have yet to receive all results. As we await the results from the naso-swab tests, we continue to conduct twice… Read More
Cedarwood at Sandy: Update From The Executive Director
Hello Cedarwood family, This update letter may be a little long, but I am hoping to clarify a few things and update everyone on our plan for the Holidays. We continue to have zero cases of COVID, the state did come in one more time today to test AL and Staff. I will keep everyone posted on results. I wanted to Clarify the different types of testing we have been… Read More
‘Ilima at Leihano: Update From The Executive Director
Aloha Residents, Families and Loved Ones, It has been over 9-months since we last had visitors inside our community and the Corona Covid-19 pandemic will continue to be with us for the unforeseen future. Even with a vaccine the distribution will take us well into next year. We realize that our precautions need to be balanced with your quality-of-life and safety. To this end we have created the following Guest… Read More
Magnolia Glen: Update From The Executive Director
Dear Residents, Associates, Friends, and Families of Magnolia Glen: As you know, we have established on ongoing COVID-19 testing program that we believe is the most innovative in the country. Collaborating with our lab partners, we have developed an approach that is designed to detect COVID-19 quickly to minimize the potential exposure to others by conducting ongoing Pooled Saliva PCR Testing. Our most recent testing occurred on Monday, November 23,… Read More
Byron Park: Update From The Executive Director
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
First Colonial Inn: Update From The Executive Director
Dear Residents, Families, and Associates of First Colonial Inn, I am happy to share that the results from our 9th round of COVID-19 Pooled Testing came back negative! In this round we collected saliva samples from a total of 228 people including residents, associates, essential visitors and employees of Silver Strands Salon and Genesis Rehab. This week we were limited to testing just once based on the holiday and FedEx… Read More
First Colonial Inn: Update From The Executive Director
Dear Residents, Families, and Associates of First Colonial Inn, The results from our 8th round of COVID-19 Pooled Testing came back negative! We thank everyone for their continued participation in this testing program. As we continue to receive negative results this allows us to keep the shelter in place restrictions lifted for any resident who leaves the community, whether on their own or in our transportation, as long as they… Read More
Park Plaza: Update From The Assistant Executive Director
Dear Residents, Associates, Families, and Friends, As we continue our pooled Saliva Testing, we had two of our pools come back positive for COVID-19. With this news, we isolated the residents in the pool and followed up with the individual PCR swab testing. We have identified one Resident and one Associate in our Assisted Living that have tested positive. The Resident is asymptomatic and is isolating in the apartment with… Read More
The Cardinal at North Hills: Update From The Executive Director
Dear Residents, Families, and Associates of The Cardinal, Yesterday, North Carolina reported 4,296 new cases of COVID-19 and as of Wednesday of this week, our positivity rate was 8.3%. This percentage continues to rise and is heading in the wrong direction. Governor Cooper stated earlier this week that he is not ruling out new statewide restrictions if the data continues to trend in this direction. Last night, we learned that… Read More