6 December 2022
Dear family member/resident representative,
Thank you for your support and patience as we manage the risk of COVID-19 at your loved one’s aged care centre.
Since writing to you last week, I’m pleased to report that all PCR tests conducted over the weekend and yesterday for residents at your loved one’s aged care centre who have not tested positive to COVID-19 returned a negative result.
We are currently caring for three residents with COVID-19 at the care centre. These residents are experiencing very few symptoms and have finished their course of anti-viral medication.
In pleasing news, over the past few days 12 of our residents have reached their full recovery criteria and are now free of the virus. These residents are now free to move around the care centre, but will continue to receive their meals in their rooms while our COVID-positive residents remain in isolation.
Visiting arrangements
Visiting arrangements remain unchanged at this time.
If you have plans to visit your loved one in the coming days, you are strongly encouraged to postpone any plans to visit at this time. However if you do continue with your plans to visit, please assist the care centre by complying with the following:
Please do not visit your loved one if you are experiencing any symptoms or are feeling unwell, even if the symptoms are mild. Even if you have a negative COVID-19 result you may still have influenza or another virus which is highly contagious.
If you have any questions, please contact your Care Manager.
Thank you for your ongoing support.
Yours sincerely,
Nia Briguglio
EGM – Aged Care Centres