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A long-term care and retirement home in Listowel is introducing new infection prevention and control measures in the aftermath of two deadly COVID-19 outbreaks.
Caressant Care Nursing and Retirement Homes outlined the efforts being taken at its Listowel location in a press release this week, including the purchase of new cleaning equipment and additional education for staff members.
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“The home conducts a minimum of 20 to 30 hand hygiene and (personal protective equipment) audits per shift,” said Lenora Belle, the home’s executive director, adding that audits are now more detailed than they were prior to the pandemic.
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Outbreaks at Caressant Care’s long-term care and retirement home in Listowel have been linked to the deaths of two more residents, public health officials confirmed Wednesday.
The outbreaks, declared at the retirement home Jan. 7 and an adjoining long-term care home Jan. 10, have now killed 12 people, increasing the number of COVID-related deaths in Huron and Perth counties since March to 38.
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According to numbers from Huron Perth public health published Wednesday, data that’s up to date as of 1:30 p.m. the day before, the outbreaks have infected 73 residents and 35 staff members.
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Nearly 20 residents from a long-term care and retirement home in Listowel facing two serious COVID-19 outbreaks have been moved to area hospitals this week, health officials say.
Karl Ellis, the chief executive of the Listowel Wingham Hospital Alliance, one of the local health-care partners responding to the outbreak at Caressant Care, said during a public health update Thursday that 19 residents have so far been removed from the home.
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“There has been a lot of support from (health-care) providers across Huron and Perth (counties) and Grey-Bruce,” he said. “We believe, between moving patients out of that facility and the extra staffing that (has been) brought in, that we’ve stabilized the situation in that home.”
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Residents from a Listowel nursing and retirement home hard hit by a COVID-19 outbreak connected to four deaths are being moved to area hospitals as officials work to reduce the spread of the virus.
Six residents from Caressant Care – three in long-term care and three from an adjoined retirement home – were the first to be relocated Tuesday. More are expected to follow this week.
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“We recognize that this is home for residents,” said Stuart Oakley, the communications and marketing manager at Caressant Care, a long-term care and retirement home operator based in Woodstock. “The decision to transfer is not taken lightly.”