Guildford Seniors Village – Update 27 May 2020

Ensuring a healthy community is due to a team commitment to adhering to protocols to prevent COVID -19 from entering our community. We wish the same for your households and loved ones. We hope you find some tips below that may aid you in your safety.

Protocols

With strict compliance to the direction of our public health officials, we remain seriously committed to full enhanced preventative infection control protocols.

We continue to monitor residents & staff closely and adhere to the following protocols:

• restricting ALL visitors from the premises excluding essential services (who are pre-screened and following as per below

Staff are

• working strictly in one community, Guildford Seniors Village and within an assigned neighborhood floor

• pre-screened for their temperature & health indicators upon entrance to the building and midway through shift
• removing outside clothing and footwear, switching to inside apparel before entering building; and changing back into outside clothes at end of shift
• maintaining social distancing amongst each other and of residents, including during mealtimes
• appropriate application and removal of personal protective equipment (PPE),  use of individual resident slings (cloth component of a personal lift), disinfecting equipment between uses
• in order to break the chain of infection, ensuring ongoing enhanced environmental cleaning of high touch surfaces, and commitment to regular/proper hand hygiene by washing their & residents’ hands with soap and water and applying hand sanitizer
• ongoing education Huddles to adapt and ensure current compliances are met, questions answered and team confidence in enhanced care protocols

Dining Room

Our Summer Menu is being developed and we are looking forward to a season change. We continue with service of home cooked dining of breakfast, lunch and dinner within each four Neighborhood dining rooms, as well as snack trolley room service afternoon and evenings.

Recreation

We are embarking on creating  a new format of arranging small groups of residents for socializing and programs. We continue with One-to-One visits and connecting residents with loved one with social calls, Facetime and/or Skype visits continues; please contact 604-582-0808 ext. 203 or email recreation-gsv@retirementconcepts.com to place your request.

If you would like to send a message or photos to your loved ones, kindly email recreation-gsv@retirementconcepts.com

Deliveries

Please feel welcome to drop off items for your loved one (cards, flowers in vase, specific supplies if requested by Care Team) in our lobby vestibule, however do press the speaker buzzer (to your left) to inform our team, as we will ensure sanitizing and delivery to loved one. Please no food items for residents. Thank you!

Gratitude

Special Thank You to our extended community of Loved Ones, Residents’ Family Anna for thoughtful sharing of your talent in making crocheted ear savers for our healthcare team, the many messages of kindness and even delicious pizza deliveries. Your tremendous kindness lifts us up.

Fun Fact

Did you know that on July 13^th,  Guildford Seniors Village celebrates its 19^th anniversary? We wonder what July will bring for all us during pandemic times and how our anniversary celebration will unfold! Stay tuned.

On behalf of all us in Guildford Seniors Village, we send our warmest regards to all

If there are any questions that you may have please call 604-582-0808 ext. 125.