LATEST NEWS

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.

Health Care News

Administrator Message: 3/17/21

March 17, 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

Administrator Message: 3/17/21

March 17, 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

RI Nursing Home Visitation – February 19, 2021

Rhode Island Guidance-for-Nursing-Home-and-Assisted-Living-Visitation Please see the link for the February 19, 2021 Rhode Island Guidance on Nursing Home Visitation https://athenahealthcare.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Rhode-Island-Guidance-for-Nursing-Home-and-Assisted-Living-Visitation.pdf… Continue reading

Update from Administrator – January 29, 2021

January 29, 2020 Dear Families, As always, we hope this letter finds you safe and healthy!   We currently have no COVID in the building and our second-floor unit that was opened temporarily for a few positive residents is now closed.   I would also like to announce we will resume visitation on Monday February… Continue Reading Continue reading

Update from Administrator – January 24, 2021

January 24th, 2021 Dear Families, As always, we hope this letter finds you safe and healthy! The COVID-19 vaccination was administered at our center to staff and residents on 01/03/2021. The second dose of the vaccine is scheduled to be administered on 01/24/21 to residents and staff. This date is also available to those individuals… Continue Reading Continue reading

Update from Administrator – January 19, 2021

January 15, 2020 Dear Families,   As always, we hope this letter finds you safe and healthy as we begin the New Year!  On our last routine testing of staff of residents we had 2 residents test positive. The COVID-19 vaccination was administered at our center to staff and residents on 01/03/2021. The second dose… Continue Reading Continue reading

Update from Administrator – January 7, 2020

Dear Families and Friends,   We have had a few more residents come back positive for COVID.  In conjunction with the Rhode Island Department of Health we have decided to stop sending the residents to our sister facility and instead house them on our 2nd floor that we have turned into an isolation unit.  Having… Continue Reading Continue reading

Update from Administrator – December 26, 2020

Dear Families and Friends,   I hope everyone’s holiday was filled with cheer.  I wanted to send another update to let everyone know we had a few additional COVID positive residents over the holiday.  These were from the same round of testing as the email from the other day.  Everyone else from that round has… Continue Reading Continue reading