Interior Health declares outbreak at Sunnybank Retirement Home in Oliver
OLIVER – Interior Health has declared an outbreak at Sunnybank Retirement Home long-term care in Oliver.
Four staff members have tested positive for COVID-19. All individuals in close contact with these individuals are in self-isolation and monitoring for symptoms.
Sunnybank Retirement Home is operated by Interior Health and has 51 publicly funded long-term care beds. Interior Health will continue to monitor the situation, while implementing additional infection control and preventive measures.
There is no indication of any connection to the nearby COVID-19 outbreak at McKinney Place long-term care in the same community.
To protect the safety of all residents, outbreak protocols are in place, including a pause in all visits at this site.
Interior Health continues to take steps to protect the health of all staff, individuals in care and families at long-term care homes. This includes:
· Ensuring long-term care staff members are only working at one care home (as per the provincial single site order).
· Monitoring of all residents for respiratory symptoms and doing COVID-19 testing on anyone with COVID-19 symptoms.
· Enhanced cleaning protocols and COVID-19 visitor policies.
Interior Health has frequently updated COVID-19 information on our public website
www.interiorhealth.ca
Lynne thompson says
As a concerned citizen I tried to get through to IHA regarding answers to questions regarding the covid testing process. So….no one available to take calls please hang up. As to Covid testing sites sorry no one available to take your call please hang up. To book an appointment for a Covid test sorry no one available to take your call. The one person I thought was live on phone line was a recording. No one to take your call at 1-888-covid19 or 1-877-740-7743. The rumours of a testing site close by are greatly exaggerated, just a spot of be patient it’s just a rumour.
Publisher:
Warning – is IHA doing a good job? First question to the MGR – how many of your staff are on vacation out of the country?
They seem not to be too many in the office……. Office workers do not care for sick people.
If you answer the questions – people will not ask for info.