LATEST NEWS

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Health Care News

Update from Administrator – March 23, 2021

March 23, 2021 Dear Resident, Family Member or Responsible Party, On March 10th, CMS issued revised guidance which can be found on their website at https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/infection-control-after-vaccination.html on nursing home visitation, which includes new guidance on indoor visitation and visitation during outbreaks under certain circumstances.   After another week of testing, we do not have any… Continue Reading Continue reading

Update from Administrator – March 12, 2021

March 12, 2021 Dear Resident, Family Member or Responsible Party, On March 10th, CMS issued revised guidance which can be found on their website at https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/infection-control-after-vaccination.html on nursing home visitation, which includes new guidance on indoor visitation and visitation during outbreaks under certain circumstances. As before, when an outbreak is detected among residents or staff,… Continue Reading Continue reading

Update from Administrator – March 10, 2021

March 10, 2021   Dear Resident, Family Member or Responsible Party,   Unfortunately, we had a staff member test positive during this week’s testing for the COVID-19 virus. According to the CDC and DPH guidance, we must put indoor visitations on hold until we complete a two-week cycle of no positive residents and/or employees. In… Continue Reading Continue reading

Update from Administrator – March 1, 2021

March 1, 2021 Dear Resident, Family Member or Responsible Party, As always, we hope this letter finds you safe and healthy. Currently, we do not have any COVID-19 positive residents in our building or any staff members that are at home in quarantine. According to the CDC and DPH guidance, we had to put indoor… Continue Reading Continue reading

Update from Administrator – February 22, 2021

February 22, 2021   Dear Resident, Family Member or Responsible Party, As always, we hope this letter finds you safe and healthy. Currently, we do not have any COVID-19 positive residents in our building. Unfortunately, we had two employees test positive during our last round of testing. According to the CDC and DPH guidance, we… Continue Reading Continue reading

Update from Administrator – February 8, 2021

Dear Resident, Family Member or Responsible Party,   As always, we hope this letter finds you safe and healthy.   Currently, we have one COVID-19 positive resident who was in their admissions quarantine period with no COVID-19 positive employees.   We continue to offer on a daily basis IPads/ Tablets for our residents to use… Continue Reading Continue reading

Update from Administrator – January 25, 2021

Dear Resident, Family Member or Responsible Party, As always, we hope this letter finds you safe and healthy. We continue to not have any  COVID positive residents at Bayview. We currently do have 1 employee who is quarantining at home. As reminder, with the start of the New Year, if your insurance information has changed,… Continue Reading Continue reading

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