The publicly funded care home Louis Brier Home and Hospital, which has more than 200 residents and 400 staff, is located in the Vancouver Coastal Health Authority. Researchers say it implemented the most provincial guidelines to prevent or mitigate virus spread, and had good crisis management, according to the report. “The facility leaders were monitoring COVID news as early as December,” said Havaei, a UBC nursing professor, who studies workplace safety and patient care. By March, when the B.C. government declared an emergency because of the virus, the care home had already implemented many of the infection control practices that would become standard practice in the pandemic, such as keeping an up-to-date list of people entering the home.
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University of B.C. researchers say a combination of good planning and leadership led to the success of one long-term care home at keeping the COVID-19 virus at bay early on in the pandemic.
The study, led by professor Farinaz Havaei, evaluated the management practices of a large B.C. long-term care facility that did not experience a single outbreak until much later in the year when the B.C. health-care system was much better prepared to fight the virus.
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Even the best-managed long-term care homes will need to step up to get through the second wave of the pandemic, suggests a new study by researchers at the UBC school of nursing.
The team, led by Professor Farinaz Havaei, evaluated the management practices of a large B.C. long-term care facility that successfully kept COVID-19 at bay at the start of the pandemic. It did not experience a single outbreak until much later in the year when the B.C. health care system was much better prepared to fight the virus.
The study showed that a combination of good planning, strong leadership and a focus on safety above everything else contributed to this outcome.