The Pines Resident & Family Portal

UPDATE: Home-wide outbreak was declared on October 21, 2024- all measures are in effect for the entire home.

In collaboration with Public Health, The Maple and Birch Home Areas are experiencing a respiratory outbreak as well as Oak Home Area remains under Enhanced Surveillance. The Spruce Home Area is being monitored at this time with two cases arising throughout the weekend. We are in contact with Public Health regarding these cases as well. Residents have symptoms such as cough, runny nose, nasal congestion, sore throat, and/or hoarse voice. We received results from testing with Public Health, and both COVID-19 and Rhinovirus have been detected as causative agents for the outbreaks. Family members of those residents affected have been notified.

The following infection control measures are to be implemented:

• Surgical Masks to be worn in the Maple, Birch, Spruce, and Oak Home Area
• Ensure the Public Health 4 moments of Hand Hygiene are followed
• Resident's Hand Hygiene before all meals and regularly throughout the day
• Ensure Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) is used properly- including donning before entering and removing before exiting the isolated resident’s room
• Residents are to remain in the affected home area at this time to reduce the risk of spread
• *If residents insist on leaving the home area, please assist them with masking or a visor and encourage outdoor visiting.
• Twice daily respiratory symptom screening in Maple, Birch, Spruce. and Oak Home Area
• Immediate isolation of any residents with new symptom onset
• Cohorting of staff, when possible.
• Cohorting of residents and only small group activities in the home area for unaffected residents. Isolated residents to receive one-to-one activities.
• Twice daily high-touch surface cleaning- changing disinfecting product to 1-minute contact time
• Increased hand hygiene and PPE audits in the home area with coaching
• Limit of two (2) essential caregivers at a time in the Entire Home
• No General Visitors to the Entire Home

Please ensure that you are following the IPAC practices listed above as they are in place to protect residents, staff, essential caregivers, and visitors.

We will continue to provide updates as we move through the outbreak.

If you have any questions, please reach out to the Registered Nurse or Stephanie Albert, IPAC Lead at stephanie.albert@muskoka.on.ca

The 2024 Resident and Family Engagement Survey is now available for you to complete. We need your feedback to help support the quality of life for the residents in the home. Our activities team will be helping to support residents, who are able, to complete the survey over the next couple of months. Please take 5 minutes to complete the survey and provide us with your views of the care for your loved one.

There are paper copies available at the sign-in desk if you prefer to complete it this way. Please then seal it in the envelope provided and provide to the front office staff.

In collaboration with Public Health, The Maple and Birch Home Areas are experiencing a respiratory outbreak as well as Oak Home Area remains under Enhanced Surveillance. Residents have symptoms such as cough, runny nose, nasal congestion, sore throat, and/or hoarse voice. We received results from testing with Public Health, and both COVID-19 and Rhinovirus have been detected as causative agents for the outbreaks. Family members of those residents affected have been notified.

The following infection control measures are to be implemented:

• Surgical Masks to be worn in the Maple, Birch, and Oak Home Area
• Ensure the Public Health 4 moments of Hand Hygiene are followed
• Resident's Hand Hygiene before all meals and regularly throughout the day
• Ensure Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) is used properly- including donning before entering and removing before exiting the isolated resident’s room
• Residents are to remain in the affected home area at this time to reduce the risk of spread
• *If residents insist on leaving the home area, please assist them with masking or a visor and encourage outdoor visiting.
• Twice daily respiratory symptom screening in Maple, Birch, and Oak Home Area
• Immediate isolation of any residents with new symptom onset
• Cohorting of staff, when possible.
• Cohorting of residents and only small group activities in the home area for unaffected residents. Isolated residents to receive one-to-one activities.
• Twice daily high-touch surface cleaning- changing disinfecting product to 1-minute contact time
• Increased hand hygiene and PPE audits in the home area with coaching
• Limit of two (2) essential caregivers at a time in Maple & Birch Home Areas only
• No General Visitors to Maple & Birch Home Areas
• No impact to Visiting in Oak Home Area

Please ensure that you are following the IPAC practices listed above as they are in place to protect residents, staff, essential caregivers, and visitors.

We will continue to provide updates as we move through the outbreak.

If you have any questions, please reach out to the Registered Nurse or Stephanie Albert, IPAC Lead at stephanie.albert@muskoka.on.ca

In collaboration with Public Health, The Maple and Birch Home Areas are experiencing a respiratory outbreak as well as Oak Home Area remains under Enhanced Surveillance. Residents have symptoms such as cough, runny nose, nasal congestion, sore throat, and/or hoarse voice. We received results from testing with Public Health, and both COVID-19 and Rhinovirus have been detected as causative agents for the outbreaks. Family members of those residents affected have been notified.

The following infection control measures are to be implemented:

• Surgical Masks to be worn in the Maple, Birch, and Oak Home Area
• Ensure the Public Health 4 moments of Hand Hygiene are followed
• Resident's Hand Hygiene before all meals and regularly throughout the day
• Ensure Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) is used properly- including donning before entering and removing before exiting the isolated resident’s room
• Residents are to remain in the affected home area at this time to reduce the risk of spread
• *If residents insist on leaving the home area, please assist them with masking or a visor and encourage outdoor visiting.
• Twice daily respiratory symptom screening in Maple, Birch, and Oak Home Area
• Immediate isolation of any residents with new symptom onset
• Cohorting of staff, when possible.
• Cohorting of residents and only small group activities in the home area for unaffected residents. Isolated residents to receive one-to-one activities.
• Twice daily high-touch surface cleaning- changing disinfecting product to 1-minute contact time
• Increased hand hygiene and PPE audits in the home area with coaching
• Limit of two (2) essential caregivers at a time in Maple & Birch Home Areas only
• No General Visitors to Maple & Birch Home Areas
• No impact to Visiting in Oak Home Area

Please ensure that you are following the IPAC practices listed above as they are in place to protect residents, staff, essential caregivers, and visitors.

We will continue to provide updates as we move through the outbreak.

If you have any questions, please reach out to the Registered Nurse or Stephanie Albert, IPAC Lead at stephanie.albert@muskoka.on.ca

Thank you to those that were able to attend the meeting. we had a great presentation from the Family Councils of Ontario and a good discussion with our dietary team. Below is the recording. We hope to see you in November.

October Family Council Meeting Recording

Passcode: 3Y$JbXZx

Family Councils Ontario

If you have questions and want to learn more about Family Council. Please reach out to Jennifer Ridgley (Administrator) at jennifer.ridgley@muskoka.on.ca

In collaboration with Public Health, The Maple and Birch Home Areas are experiencing a respiratory outbreak as well as Oak Home Area remains under Enhanced Surveillance. Residents have symptoms such as cough, runny nose, nasal congestion, sore throat, and/or hoarse voice. We received results from testing with Public Health, and both COVID-19 and Rhinovirus have been detected as causative agents for the outbreaks. Family members of those residents affected have been notified.

The following infection control measures are to be implemented:

• Surgical Masks to be worn in the Maple, Birch, and Oak Home Area
• Ensure the Public Health 4 moments of Hand Hygiene are followed
• Resident's Hand Hygiene before all meals and regularly throughout the day
• Ensure Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) is used properly- including donning before entering and removing before exiting the isolated resident’s room
• Residents are to remain in the affected home area at this time to reduce the risk of spread
• *If residents insist on leaving the home area, please assist them with masking or a visor and encourage outdoor visiting.
• Twice daily respiratory symptom screening in Maple, Birch, and Oak Home Area
• Immediate isolation of any residents with new symptom onset
• Cohorting of staff, when possible.
• Cohorting of residents and only small group activities in the home area for unaffected residents. Isolated residents to receive one-to-one activities.
• Twice daily high-touch surface cleaning- changing disinfecting product to 1-minute contact time
• Increased hand hygiene and PPE audits in the home area with coaching
• Limit of two (2) essential caregivers at a time in Maple & Birch Home Areas only
• No General Visitors to Maple & Birch Home Areas
• No impact to Visiting in Oak Home Area

Please ensure that you are following the IPAC practices listed above as they are in place to protect residents, staff, essential caregivers, and visitors.

We will continue to provide updates as we move through the outbreak.

If you have any questions, please reach out to the Registered Nurse or Stephanie Albert, IPAC Lead at stephanie.albert@muskoka.on.ca

In collaboration with Public Health, The Maple and Birch Home Areas are experiencing a respiratory outbreak as well as Oak Home Area remains under Enhanced Surveillance. Residents have symptoms such as cough, runny nose, nasal congestion, sore throat, and/or hoarse voice. We received results from testing with Public Health, and both COVID-19 and Rhinovirus have been detected as causative agents for the outbreaks. Family members of those residents affected have been notified.

The following infection control measures are to be implemented:

• Surgical Masks to be worn in the Maple, Birch, and Oak Home Area
• Ensure the Public Health 4 moments of Hand Hygiene are followed
• Resident's Hand Hygiene before all meals and regularly throughout the day
• Ensure Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) is used properly- including donning before entering and removing before exiting the isolated resident’s room
• Residents are to remain in the affected home area at this time to reduce the risk of spread
• *If residents insist on leaving the home area, please assist them with masking or a visor and encourage outdoor visiting.
• Twice daily respiratory symptom screening in Maple, Birch, and Oak Home Area
• Immediate isolation of any residents with new symptom onset
• Cohorting of staff, when possible.
• Cohorting of residents and only small group activities in the home area for unaffected residents. Isolated residents to receive one-to-one activities.
• Twice daily high-touch surface cleaning- changing disinfecting product to 1-minute contact time
• Increased hand hygiene and PPE audits in the home area with coaching
• Limit of two (2) essential caregivers at a time in Maple & Birch Home Areas only
• No General Visitors to Maple & Birch Home Areas
• No impact to Visiting in Oak Home Area

Please ensure that you are following the IPAC practices listed above as they are in place to protect residents, staff, essential caregivers, and visitors.

We will continue to provide updates as we move through the outbreak.

If you have any questions, please reach out to the Registered Nurse or Stephanie Albert, IPAC Lead at stephanie.albert@muskoka.on.ca

In collaboration with Public Health, The Maple and Birch Home Areas are experiencing a respiratory outbreak. We currently have nine (9) active residents isolated with symptoms such as cough, runny nose, nasal congestion, and/or hoarse voice and one (1) resolved case. We received results from testing that was sent to Public Health, both COVID-19 and Rhinovirus have been detected as causative agents for the outbreaks.

We remain on enhanced surveillance in the Oak Home Area. Three (3) residents have been isolated in total with respiratory symptoms, but at this time, we do not meet the definition of an outbreak in this home area, according to Public Health.

Family members of those residents affected have been notified.

The following infection control measures are to be implemented:

• Surgical Masks to be worn in the Maple, Birch, and Oak Home Area
• Ensure the Public Health 4 moments of Hand Hygiene are followed
• Resident's Hand Hygiene before all meals and regularly throughout the day
• Ensure Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) is used properly- including donning before entering and removing before exiting the isolated resident’s room
• Residents are to remain in the affected home area at this time to reduce the risk of spread
• *If residents insist on leaving the home area, please assist them with masking or a visor and encourage outdoor visiting.
• Twice daily respiratory symptom screening in Maple, Birch, and Oak Home Area
• Immediate isolation of any residents with new symptom onset
• Cohorting of staff, when possible.
• Cohorting of residents and only small group activities in the home area for unaffected residents. Isolated residents to receive one-to-one activities.
• Twice daily high-touch surface cleaning- changing disinfecting product to 1-minute contact time
• Increased hand hygiene and PPE audits in the home area with coaching
• Limit of two (2) essential caregivers at a time in Maple & Birch Home Areas only
• No General Visitors to Maple & Birch Home Areas
• No impact to Visiting in Oak Home Area

Please ensure that you are following the IPAC practices listed above as they are in place to protect residents, staff, essential caregivers, and visitors.

We will continue to provide updates as we move through the outbreak.

If you have any questions, please reach out to the Registered Nurse or Stephanie Albert, IPAC Lead at stephanie.albert@muskoka.on.ca

In collaboration with Public Health, The Maple Home Area is experiencing a respiratory outbreak. Three (3) Maple residents have tested positive for COVID-19, with one (1) of the cases being resolved. We currently have seven (7) active residents isolated with symptoms such as cough, runny nose, nasal congestion, and/or hoarse voice. We received results from testing that was sent to Public Health and Rhinovirus has been detected as another causative agent.

We remain on enhanced surveillance in the Oak Home Area. Three (3) residents have been isolated in total with respiratory symptoms, but at this time, we do not meet the definition of an outbreak in this home area, according to Public Health.

Please see the notice from earlier today regarding the Birch home area which has now declared an outbreak

Family members of those residents affected have been notified.

The following infection control measures are to be implemented:

• Surgical Masks to be worn in the Maple and Oak Home Area
• Ensure the Public Health 4 moments of Hand Hygiene are followed
• Resident's Hand Hygiene before all meals and regularly throughout the day
• Ensure Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) is used properly- including donning before entering and removing before exiting the isolated resident’s room
• Residents are to remain in the affected home area at this time to reduce the risk of spread
• *If residents insist on leaving the home area, please assist them with masking or a visor and encourage outdoor visiting.
• Twice daily respiratory symptom screening in Maple and Oak Home Area
• Immediate isolation of any residents with new symptom onset
• Cohorting of staff, when possible.
• Cohorting of residents and only small group activities in the home area for unaffected residents. Isolated residents to receive one-to-one activities.
• Twice daily high-touch surface cleaning- changing disinfecting product to 1-minute contact time
• Increased hand hygiene and PPE audits in the home area with coaching
• Limit of two (2) essential caregivers at a time in Maple Home Area only
• No General Visitors to Maple Home Area
• No impact to Visiting in Oak Home Area

Please ensure that you are following the IPAC practices listed above as they are in place to protect residents, staff, essential caregivers, and visitors.

We will continue to provide updates as we move through the outbreak.

If you have any questions, please reach out to the Registered Nurse or Stephanie Albert, IPAC Lead at stephanie.albert@muskoka.on.ca

Stephanie Albert RPN, IPAC Lead