October 20, 2020
October 20th, 2020
Kendal at Ithaca COVID Updates
A brief update today. No new positive cases identified in residents or staff.
Our current totals:
3 residents are positive, 2 onsite, and 1 in the hospital. All are stable at this time.
6 staff positive.
I want to share that our screening process is working to identify potential risk – we have numerous staff furloughed where we have identified risk on screening upon arriving to work; or, staff have self-reported symptoms or exposure and taken themselves out of work very quickly. I believe this behavior is helping us to contain the spread and also demonstrates the value of education.
We will not be delivering daily updates via paper on the weekends – we will have copies of any communications available near the mailboxes for residents who do not use email but would like to check on the weekend.
I’d also like to share some of our wonderful staff stories during this time:
Dining Services has continued to provide meals while having 12 staff furloughed! Natalie and her team have worked many, many extra hours so that resident meal delivery is not impacted. Thankfully, we will start to see staff return to work at the end of this week. Thank you to Dining Staff for “getting it done” during a very challenging staffing situation!
-Laurie Mante