Jan. 30, 2023 Dear Families, As we continue to navigate the winter respiratory outbreak season, I wanted to share that we had some resident care units resolve their outbreak. Here at Holy Family on 4A St. Joseph’s and 2C St. Mary’s/St. Francis outbreaks are now resolved. All residents can return back to communal dining, group activities and off unit events. I wish to thank all the residents, staff and visitors for following the outbreak protocols, that now will allow our residents to go back to their regular routines on these 3 units.  We do continue to have respiratory outbreaks on [...]

New visitation principals starting Jan. 30, 2023. Visitation guideline changes As the province is moving out of a pandemic focus to an endemic focus of managing the COVID 19 virus, Holy Family Home will be updating this visitation change guidelines in the home to reflect the new changes in the region. During non-outbreak times on a specific resident care unit: 4 vaccinated visitors can visit in resident rooms at one time with continued use of masks 4 visitors can visit in the visitation rooms at one time (please book an appointment through Janice Buors) 1 visitor can join a resident [...]

Jan. 23, 2022 Dear Families, I wanted to provide an update on the respiratory outbreaks here at Holy Family Home. Today we had a few additional resident care units with residents exhibiting respiratory symptoms, nasopharyngeal results are still pending at this time. We do continue to have respiratory outbreaks on 4C, 4A, 3C and 2C. See the below table for details on the outbreaks presently occurring in the home. unitunit nameoutbreak typenamenumber of casesvisitation4CSt. Martha/St. Basilrespiratorycommon cold7designated visitors only4ASt. JosephrespiratoryRSV2designated visitors only2CSt. Mary's/St. FrancisrespiratoryRSV2 RSV/COVID outbreak resolveddesignated visitors only3CSt. John's/St. Paul'srespiratoryCOVID7designated visitors only We continue to monitor all residents for [...]

Jan. 19, 2022 Dear Families, Today we had some good news to share with all the families. 3A St. Anne’s and St. Luke’s units are now officially off outbreak. Residents can return to regular activities on/off unit and visitation can resume to normal on/off of the resident care unit. Thank you to all the residents and families as they followed the infection control principals throughout the holiday season. We also have two new outbreaks to declare today. 4C St. Martha’s/St. Basil’s has a common cold outbreak and 3C St. John’s/St. Paul’s has a COVID outbreak. Both these units have now [...]

Jan. 17, 2023 Dear Families, Happy New Year! I wanted to provide you with an update on our outbreaks in the home. Please see the table below for details. We continue to monitor residents daily on the below units for symptoms. As per Public Health and Long Term Care, we are not in an official outbreak until we have 2 confirmed cases of a specific virus. unitunit nameoutbreak typenamenumber of casesvisitation1CNSt. Luke'srespiratoryRSV outbreak3no general visitors3ASt. Anne'srespiratoryRSV outbreak9no general visitors4ASt. Joseph’srespiratoryRSV outbreak2no general visitors2CN/2CSSt. Mary's/St. FrancisrespiratoryCOVID / RSV outbreak3 (1-Covid/2- RSV)no general visitors The below strategies are implemented: all off unit [...]

Dec. 30, 2022 Dear Families, I wanted to share with everyone that we do have 2 residents on the St. Mary’s unit who have tested positive for COVID 19. With guidance from the regional Infection Prevention and Control as well as our medical director Dr. T Babick we are now official in a COVID outbreak on 2C St. Mary’s/St. Francis unit. The below strategies are being implemented: -  all off unit activities/events are cancelled for these residents,-  recreation activities are to move to more 1:1 activities,-  residents who are symptomatic are isolated to their rooms-  all family visitation needs to occur on the [...]

Dec. 8, 2022 Dear families, This week we have one additional resident on 4C St. Martha’s/ St. Basil’s unit who has tested positive for influenza A. After consultation with regional infection prevention and control and out medical director Dr. T Babick we have declared an outbreak on the 4C St. Martha’s/St. Basil’s unit. All residents who have tested positive for influenza A are isolated in their rooms while they are symptomatic. Nursing continues to monitor all residents for development of symptoms. We continue with our outbreak on 2C with two residents having influenza A and one case of COVID 19 [...]