LATEST NEWS

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Health Care News

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

Update from Administrator – December 11, 2020

Dear Families, I would like to let you know that we did have a resident test positive for COVID-19 this morning.  From reviewing other test results and from doing contact tracing, we believe the resident must have come in contact with the virus outside of this building when they were out on a medically necessary… Continue Reading Continue reading

Update from Administrator – December 8, 2020

December 8, 2020   Dear Families,   As always, our team and I hope this email finds you safe and healthy.   We have had 3 positive employees on our last round of routine testing. With the increase of community spread, these numbers are not abnormal, and our goal still remains minimizing and mitigating the… Continue Reading Continue reading

Family Communication – 11/27/2020

As always, our team and I hope this email finds you safe and healthy. As of today, we have NO new Covid-19 cases.  During this time of a rapid increase in community spread – staff positives are inevitable, and our main goals still include rapid identification and minimizing risk and spread.  We will continue testing… Continue Reading Continue reading