March 7, 2023 Dear Families, I wanted to share with everyone that today Holy Family Home is officially out of outbreak. The 4A St. Joseph’s unit RSV outbreak is over today March 7, 2023 as per Regional Infection Prevention and Control and our Medical Director. We did have two residents test positive for RSV during the outbreak. I wish to thank the staff, families and residents for following the outbreak protocols on the unit and preventing further spread on the unit. Today all activities can resume on the St. Joseph’s unit and residents can return to attending off unit events. [...]

Feb. 21, 2023 Dear Families, I am sorry to have to share, but over the weekend, we had a few residents develop some respiratory symptoms on 4A St. Joseph’s and unfortunately, we did get results back to indicate we have RSV on the 4A St. Joseph’s unit. As of today, we have three (3) cases of RSV on 4A St. Joseph’s unit and now are in official outbreak. The 4A unit has initiated outbreak strategies as per the regional Infection Prevention and Control practitioner and our Medical Director. The below outbreak strategies have been initiated on the 4A St. Joseph’s [...]

Feb. 8, 2023 Dear Families, I wish to share with everyone that the outbreaks here at Holy Family Home are now officially resolved as of today Feb. 8, 2023 as per the regional infection prevention and control and our medical director. This will mean all residents can resume regular activities off unit and restart the on unit group activities; as well, visitors can visit with their loved ones both on and off the unit.  I wish to thank the staff, residents and families for their diligent efforts to keep our residents safe from continued spread of the virus on the [...]

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 [...]