Extendicare Kapuskasing COVID-19 Update
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to be extremely challenging for long-term care communities. As levels of community spread remain high in many regions across Ontario, long-term care homes must continue to combat increased risk of exposure.
Extendicare Kapuskasing is working closely with the Porcupine Health Unit health to ensure our infection control practices are informed by the latest available evidence. We are strictly adhering to all of the provincial and local public health directives and will continue to test rigorously so that we can combat the virus effectively and clear it from our home as soon as possible.
At this time, we have 27 active resident cases and 4 active cases among team members. Based on these results, residents have been cohorted in order to limit virus spread and are isolating in their rooms, where they are being provided with meals and enhanced care support. Affected staff are recovering at home until cleared by public health to return to work.
We are saddened to confirm that a resident who had previously tested positive for COVID-19, passed away earlier today. We have been in touch with this resident’s family to offer our deepest condolences on behalf of all who knew and cared for them in our home.
Our care team is adhering to infection control best practices, including increased cleaning with a focus on high-touch surfaces, twice-daily symptom screening of all residents, screening all staff for symptoms before each shift, testing all team members weekly and enforcing PPE requirements. We continue to add additional staff members to support our home during this time including additional personal support workers this afternoon, and are grateful to have a doctor onsite today, who is providing medical assessment of our residents.
Our focus at this time is solely on providing quality care to our residents, keeping our families informed and supporting our staff. We will continue to do all we can to limit risk of exposure to the people we care for and the staff who support them.