COVID-19 (Coronavirus) Update

Dear Residents, Tenants and Family and Friends of Hope Health and Rehab / Hope Senior Living,

Hope Health and Hope Senior remain free of COVID-19. We have no residents/tenants experiencing any symptoms at this time. Covid-19 testing continues 2x a week at Hope Health and Hope Senior for all non-vaccinated staff members based off of the county transmission rate.

Hope Health and Hope Senior remain open for visitation. With recent updated guidance, visitors will no longer need to schedule their visit in advance. All visitors will be required to continue to complete a COVID-19 screening upon entry and be required to wear a surgical face mask for the duration of the visit. A staff member may give a friendly reminder to keep your mask on if improper mask wearing is observed. Please, help keep our residents and staff safe. If you have any illness symptoms, please postpone your visit.

Hope Health and Hope Senior will have our next COVID-19 Vaccine Clinic on December 2^nd for team members and residents/tenants. The CMS rule requiring COVID-19 vaccination for workers in healthcare settings that participate in the Medicare and Medicaid programs (such as Hope) takes place on December 5^th. We are pleased to report this mandate will not have a large negative impact on our staffing levels at Hope Health and Hope Senior as team members have either completed the necessary accommodation requests or signed up for the upcoming vaccine clinic to receive their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.

We urge everyone to continue to take measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in the community to help keep our residents, tenants and team safe; wear a mask, avoid crowds, take precautions at family gatherings, practice diligent hand hygiene and get a COVID-19 vaccine if you have not done so already. You can find a COVID-19 vaccine clinic near you at vaccines.gov.

Thank you to all in our community for doing your part to prevent the spread of COVID-19. As always, we will continue to do our part to keep your loved ones safe.

Julia Schramek RN, LNHA
Administrator

Dear Residents, Tenants and Family and Friends of Hope Health and Rehab / Hope Senior Living,

All results from resident and staff testing last week and this week came back with negative results and Hope Health has been cleared from outbreak status. We are very proud of our teams at Hope Health and Hope Senior for their outstanding work to stop the transmission of COVID-19 between those we care for.

Hope Health and Hope Senior are open for all visitors and we have updated our visitation policy. Our updates include the following:

1. Visitors may visit a resident as often as they would like, and as often as the resident allows. Also, there is no time limit on the length of each visit.
2. Visitors no longer need to sign up or give notice to Hope Health or Hope Senior before the visit.
3. Hope Health and Hope Senior will no longer limit the number of visitors that may visit at one time. However, to maintain proper social distancing, we will only be allowing 2 visitors to visit with a resident in a semi-private room and 3 visitors for a resident in a private room. If a resident would like to visit with more visitors at one time, we will work with you to set up the visitation in a separate room to allow for proper social distancing and adherence to the COVID-19 protocols.

Please, help keep our residents and staff safe. If you have any illness symptoms, please postpone your visit. Visitors must continue to check in at the front door, apply a clean face mask, check their temperature and screen for symptoms before visiting with a resident.

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS) has issued a news release with guidance for staying safe and keeping those we love safe during the upcoming holidays.

“Celebrating the holiday season and its traditions is important to Wisconsin families, and we can all celebrate safely this year if we remember to take a few simple steps,” said DHS Secretary-designee Karen Timberlake. “Family and friends planning to gather for celebrations should get vaccinated as soon as possible, including getting a booster if you are eligible, as the COVID-19 vaccine is still the best ways to minimize risk from the virus. If you will not be fully vaccinated in time for the holidays, it is especially critical that you take additional steps to protect yourself and others around you by wearing a mask in public spaces, getting tested if you feel sick or have COVID-19 symptoms, and staying home if you aren’t feeling well.” 

To find a COVID-19 vaccine provider in your community, visit vaccines.gov, or call 211. You can read the entire DHS release on celebrating the holidays safely here: https://www.dhs.wisconsin.gov/news/releases/111721.htm

Thank you to all in our community for doing your part to prevent the spread of COVID-19. As always, we will continue to do our part to keep your loved ones safe.

Julia Schramek RN, LNHA
Administrator

Dear Residents, Tenants and Family and Friends of Hope Health and Rehab / Hope Senior Living,

Hope Health remains on outbreak status with the 2 recent positive COVID-19 cases in staff members. Outbreak testing on residents and staff early this week came back with all negative results. We are confident that the positive cases were acquired out in the community and our staff has and continues to take extra measures to prevent any spread throughout our buildings.

Hope Health (nursing home), will allow visitation on a case-by-case basis in order to limit the number of visitors in our building. Please call Hope Health (nursing home) at 920-269-4386 and speak with a member of our team to safely plan a visit.

Hope Senior (assisted living) continues to host regular indoor visitation for our tenants. To help plan your visit and ensure proper COVID screening, distancing, and disinfection by our trained screeners, we continue to request that visitors call and inform the assisted living of the visit 24 hours in advance. Hope Senior (assisted living) Visits: 920-269-7667 and select option 8

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) published an interim final rule late last week that revises the requirements that most Medicare and Medicaid certified providers must meet to participate in their programs. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) also released a vaccine requirement. With these ruling, health care workers at Hope are required to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19 by January 4, 2022. We are providing our team continued education and resources regarding any concerns about vaccination for COVID-19 and working to ensure this mandate does not affect the quality and continuity of care for our residents and tenants at Hope.

A special Thank You this week to all of our veterans that served. Your sacrifice for protecting and defending our rights can never be repaid but will always be appreciated.

And thank you to all in our community for doing your part to prevent the spread of COVID-19. As always, we will continue to do our part to keep your loved ones safe.\

Julia Schramek RN, LNHA
Administrator

Dear Resident/Tenant and Family and Friends of Hope Health and Rehab / Hope Senior Living,

We had a successful COVID-19 booster vaccine clinic through Thrifty White Pharmacy for our staff, residents and tenants this Wednesday. We found that most folks had a very minimal if any reaction at all. If you are eligible to receive a booster, we highly recommend getting it to continue to keep our community safe.

There have been no additional confirmed cases of COVID-19 at Hope Health or Hope Senior since our update last week. We are devastated to report, though, that one of the four positive cases at Hope Senior did not fully recover from COVID-19 and passed away this week. Our thoughts are with the family, friends and caregivers during this difficult time.

Hope Senior (assisted living) will be off of outbreak status on 11/6/2021 as long as all test results from yesterday and today come back negative. Please call Hope Senior Living at 920-269-7667 at least 24 hours in advance and speak with a member of the team so we can determine the safest way for you to visit your loved one.

For visits at Hope Health (nursing home), we request that visitors call and inform the facility of the visit 24 hours in advance to help us plan your visit and ensure proper COVID screening, distancing, and disinfection. Please call Hope Health (nursing home) at 920-269-4386 and select option 8

The holiday season is fast approaching and we are looking forward to being able to have families celebrate in person with our residents and tenants this year. One of the best ways to help us get there is to get vaccinated to help protect those in your community and the elders in our community. Get any COVID-19 vaccine by November 11^th and you will be fully vaccinated by Christmas. You can find a COVID-19 vaccine clinic near you at vaccines.gov.

Thank you for doing your part to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in our communities. As always, we will continue to do our part to keep your loved ones safe.

Julia Schramek RN, LNHA
Administrator

Dear Resident/Tenant and Family and Friends of Hope Health and Rehab / Hope Senior Living,

We are excited to announce that a COVID-19 booster vaccine clinic has been set up through Thrifty White pharmacy for the residents, tenants and staff at Hope for next week Wednesday!

We are also pleased to report that there have been no additional positive COVID-19 cases since the last tenant at Hope Senior (assisted Living) tested positive on 10/22/2021. Our first tenant that recently tested positive has since recovered and is off of isolation as of today.

Hope Senior (assisted living) remains on outbreak status. If all testing results come back negative (which we are confident will be the case) Hope Senior will be out of outbreak status on November 6^th. The assisted living will continue to offer compassionate care visits on a case-by-case basis. Please call Hope Senior Living at 920-269-7667 at least 24 hours in advance and speak with a member of the team so we can determine the safest way for you to have a compassionate care visit.

For visits at Hope Health (nursing home), we request that visitors call and inform the facility of the visit 24 hours in advance to help us plan your visit and ensure proper COVID screening, distancing, and disinfection. Please call Hope Health (nursing home) at 920-269-4386 and select option 8

We send healing thoughts to all that are affected with COVID-19 and will continue to work to prevent the spread throughout our buildings. Thank you for doing your part to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in our communities. As always, we will continue to do our part to keep your loved ones safe.

Julia Schramek RN, LNHA
Administrator

Dear Resident/Tenant and Family and Friends of Hope Health and Rehab / Hope Senior Living,

Hope Senior (assisted living) received lab confirmation that the tenant that was tested earlier this week by rapid swab is indeed positive for COVID-19. Outbreak testing through our lab of all tenants and staff on Monday also revealed that a second tenant is positive for COVID-19; this tenant had not been exhibiting any signs or symptoms. These tenants are on isolation precautions and Hope Senior is taking additional precautions to prevent the spread within the assisted living.

Additionally, a staff member at Hope Senior began exhibiting symptoms of COVID-19 this week and rapid testing came back positive. We are still awaiting lab confirmation of this case by PCR test. This team member will remain on isolation at home until cleared to return to work.

Indoor visits, salon services, communal dining and group activities at Hope Senior will remain on hold until cleared of outbreak status. Hope Senior will offer compassionate care visits on a case by base basis. Please call Hope Senior Living at 920-269-7667 at least 24 hours in advance and speak with a member of the team so we can determine the safest way for you to have your compassionate care visit.

The two team members of Hope Health (nursing home) that had recently tested positive have fully recovered and have been cleared to return to work. Hope Health will be lifted off of outbreak status this weekend should all results from lab testing conducted on Thursday come back negative. These results are expected to come back Saturday evening. Our tentative date to open regular indoor visitation will be Sunday, Oct. 24^th. We will send out an announcement via email and on our Facebook page when regular indoor visits are able to resume.

Hope Health will also continue to offer compassionate care visits while in outbreak status. Please call Hope Health (nursing home) at 920-269-4386 at least 24 hours in advance and speak with the nurse or a member of our management team to help schedule your compassionate care visit.

Our aim is to limit the amount of people in our facilities to reduce the risk of transmission within our buildings and out in the community. We highly encourage you to engage with your loved one by phone, video call or sending cards/care packages during this time.

We are doing everything we can to ensure we stop the spread of COVID-19 within Hope Health and Hope Senior, including staying in very close communication with local and state health officials to ensure we are taking all the appropriate steps. You can do your part by wearing a mask when out in the community, avoiding crowds, taking precautions at family gatherings, practicing diligent hand hygiene and getting a COVID-19 vaccine if you have not done so already.

Thank you for doing your part to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in our communities. As always, we will continue to do our part to keep your loved ones safe.

Julia Schramek RN, LNHA
Administrator

Dear Residents, Tenants and Family and Friends of Hope Health and Rehab / Hope Senior Living,

Hope Health continues to remain on outbreak status. COVID testing of staff last week Thursday revealed an additional staff member to be positive. Follow up testing of all residents came back with negative results.  We remain confident that our positive staff cases were from community contact, are isolated events and that the actions of our team is preventing transmission throughout our facility.

Hope Health (nursing home) will continue on outbreak status for 14 days from the date of the positive test. Staff continue to be tested per our outbreak protocol. If no additional positive cases are found, 10/22/2021 will be the last day of outbreak status.

We will send out an announcement via email, our website and Facebook page when we are cleared to resume regular indoor visitation.

Hope Health (nursing home) continues to offer compassionate care visits for residents on a case-by-case basis. Our aim is to limit the amount of people in our facility to reduce the risk of transmission within our buildings and out in the community. Please call Hope Health (nursing home) at 920-269-4386 at least 24 hours in advance and speak with the nurse or a member of our management team so we can determine the safest way for you to have your visit. Outdoor visits are also encouraged at this time.

Hope Senior (assisted living) is still open for indoor and outdoor visits for tenants. To help plan your visit and ensure proper COVID screening, distancing, and disinfection by our trained screeners, we continue to request that visitors call and inform the facility of the visit 24 hours in advance. Hope Senior (assisted living) Visits: 920-269-7667 and select option 8

We urge everyone to continue to take measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in the community; wear a mask, avoid crowds, take precautions at family gatherings, practice diligent hand hygiene and get a COVID-19 vaccine if you have not done so already.

Thank you for doing your part to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in our communities. As always, we will continue to do our part to keep your loved ones safe.

Julia Schramek RN, LNHA
Administrator

Dear Residents, Tenants and Family and Friends of Hope Health and Rehab / Hope Senior Living,

Hope Health remains on outbreak status due to 2 team members testing positive for COVID-19 last week. Follow up testing of all residents and staff came back with NEGATIVE results! We are confident that these two positive cases were from community contact, are isolated events and that the actions of our team helped prevent transmission throughout our facility.

The next outbreak testing will take place on Monday, Oct. 11^th for staff and Tuesday, Oct 12^th for HHRC residents. If all results come back negative (which we are confident will be the case) Hope Health will be out of outbreak status on Wed. Oct. 13^th. We will send out an announcement via email, our website and Facebook page when we are cleared to resume regular indoor visitation.

Hope Health (nursing home) continues to offer compassionate care visits for residents on a case-by-case basis. Our aim is to limit the amount of people in our facility to reduce the risk of transmission within our buildings and out in the community. Please call Hope Health (nursing home) at 920-269-4386 at least 24 hours in advance and speak with the nurse or a member of our management team so we can determine the safest way for you to have your visit. With the weekend weather forecast looking good, we encourage you to have an outdoor visit.

Hope Senior (assisted living) is still open for indoor and outdoor visits for tenants. To help plan your visit and ensure proper COVID screening, distancing, and disinfection by our trained screeners, we continue to request that visitors call and inform the facility of the visit 24 hours in advance. Hope Senior (assisted living) Visits: 920-269-7667 and select option 8

We urge everyone to take measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19; wear a mask when out in the community, avoid crowds, take precautions at family gatherings, practice diligent hand hygiene and get a COVID-19 vaccine if you have not done so already.

Thank you for doing your part to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in our communities. As always, we will continue to do our part to keep your loved ones safe.

Julia Schramek RN, LNHA
Administrator

Dear Residents, Tenants and Family and Friends of Hope Health and Rehab / Hope Senior Living,

Hope Health learned Thursday morning that a staff member tested positive for COVID-19. These results were received through our mandatory routine testing of non-vaccinated staff. Additionally, it was discovered this morning that a second team member tested positive. Both team members were placed on quarantine from work after exhibiting symptoms. They have been instructed to isolate at home and are not allowed back in the building to work until cleared by Dodge County Public Health. Through contact tracing, these cases are believed to be from exposure out in the community and not from transmission in our building.  We hope for a quick recovery for our staff members!

As a result of the positive cases in staff members, Hope Health (nursing home) has been placed on outbreak status. All residents and team members (both vaccinated and non-vaccinated) have been tested yesterday and today and we are awaiting results.

Hope Health is suspending visitation until at least the first round of testing is completed. We will still offer compassionate care visits for the resident of Hope Health on a case-by-case basis. Our aim is to limit the amount of people in our facility to reduce the risk of transmission within our buildings and out in the community. Please call Hope Health (nursing home) at 920-269-4386 at least 24 hours in advance and speak with the nurse or a member of our management team so we can determine the safest way for you to have your visit.

Hope Senior (assisted living) is still open for indoor and outdoor visits for tenants. To help plan your visit and ensure proper COVID screening, distancing, and disinfection by our trained screeners, we continue to request that visitors call and inform the facility of the visit 24 hours in advance. Hope Senior (assisted living) Visits: 920-269-7667 and select option 8

We urge everyone to take measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19; wear a mask when out in the community, avoid crowds, take precautions at family gatherings, practice diligent hand hygiene and get a COVID-19 vaccine if you have not done so already. You can enter your zip code into the 211 Wisconsin Search Tool to find a pop-up or one-day vaccination clinic near you. Vaccines continue to be offered and given at Hope to our residents/tenants and team members.

Thank you for doing your part to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in our communities. As always, we will continue to do our part to keep your loved ones safe.

Julia Schramek RN, LNHA
Administrator

Dear Residents, Tenants and Family and Friends of Hope Health and Rehab / Hope Senior Living,

Hope Health and Hope Senior remains free of COVID-19! Testing for staff that have not received a COVID-19 vaccine continues twice a week based off of the community transmission rate. We monitor all residents/tenants and test them if they display any symptoms and closely screen and monitor our staff and require them to stay home if they are ill.

Hope Health and Hope Senior are still open for indoor and outdoor visits for our residents and tenants. To help plan your visit and ensure proper COVID screening, distancing, and disinfection by our trained screeners, we continue to request that visitors call and inform the facility of the visit 24 hours in advance.

Hope Health (nursing home) Visits: 920-269-4386 and select option 8

Hope Senior (assisted living) Visits: 920-269-7667 and select option 8

We have had a number of staff members recently needing to be placed on quarantine from exposures to family and friends with COVID. Our amazing team has been stepping up to cover any gaps in the schedule and going above and beyond so we can continue to give great care to our residents and tenants. We urge everyone to take measure to prevent the spread of COVID-19 and keep it out of our buildings; wear a mask when out in the community, avoid crowds, take precautions at family gatherings, practice diligent hand hygiene and get a COVID-19 vaccine if you have not done so already.

Thank you for doing your part to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in our communities. As always, we will continue to do our part to keep your loved ones safe.

Julia Schramek RN, LNHA
Administrator

Dear Residents, Tenants and Family and Friends of Hope Health and Rehab / Hope Senior Living,

Hope Health and Hope Senior remains free of COVID-19. Testing for staff that have not received a COVID-19 vaccine increased to 2x a week due to an increase in the community transmission rate. We had been closely monitoring county positivity rate in the past for testing and visitation guidance; new guidance for testing and PPE use is now based off of community transmission. We continue to monitor our residents/tenants and test them if they display any symptoms. We also closely screen and monitor our staff and require them to stay home if they are ill.

Hope Health and Hope Senior are still open for indoor and outdoor visits for our residents and tenants. If you have any symptoms of COVID-19, please do not visit. We continue to highly encourage residents and families/friends to have alternate methods of staying in touch should you need to limit visitation such as video calls on phones or tablets using Skype or Zoom, sending letters, emails and care packages/flowers.

To help plan your indoor or outdoor visit and ensure proper COVID screening, distancing, and disinfection by our trained screeners, we continue to request that visitors call and inform the facility of the visit 24 hours in advance.

Hope Health (nursing home) Visits: 920-269-4386 and select option 8

Hope Senior (assisted living) Visits: 920-269-7667 and select option 8

The best way to get the COVID-19 rates down is to take measures to prevent the spread including wearing a mask when out in the community, practice social distancing, avoid crowds, practice hand hygiene often and get a COVID-19 vaccine if you have not done so already. You can find more info on how to stop the spread and how to get vaccinated at: https://www.dhs.wisconsin.gov/covid-19/index.htm

Thank you for doing your part to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in our communities. As always, we will continue to do our part to keep your loved ones safe.

Julia Schramek RN, LNHA
Administrator

Dear Residents, Tenants and Family and Friends of Hope Health and Rehab / Hope Senior Living,

Hope Health and Hope Senior remains free of COVID-19. Weekly testing continues for all staff that have not received the COVID-19 vaccine. Testing likely will be to be increased to twice a week with the increasing county positivity rate; Dodge County’s positivity rate is currently at 9.9%. As always, we continue to monitor our residents/tenants and test them if they display any symptoms. We also closely screen and monitor our staff and require them to stay home if they are ill.

We reported last week that with an increase in the county positivity rate ≥ 10%, our facilities would need to restrict visitation. However, new guidance was issued from the CDC yesterday with recommendations for facilities to have a plan for indoor visitation. We anticipate that CMS will follow suit with this guidance and continue to allow visits for the wellbeing of nursing home residents. Hope Health and Hope Senior will continue to ensure that all visits remain safe with COVID-19 screening upon entry, requirement of wearing a facility provided surgical mask at all times, and promoting social distancing. We also encourage outdoor visitation for as long as the weather will allow. We will keep you updated as guidance is received.

If you have any symptoms of COVID-19, please stay home. We continue to highly encourage residents and families/friends to have alternate methods of staying in touch should you need to limit visitation such as video calls on phones or tablets using Skype or Zoom. Sending letters, emails and care packages/flower are great ways to brighten your loved one’s day if you are not able to visit.  

To help plan your indoor or outdoor visit and ensure proper COVID screening, distancing, and disinfection by our trained screeners, we continue to request that visitors call and inform the facility of the visit 24 hours in advance.

Hope Health (nursing home) Visits: 920-269-4386 and select option 8

Hope Senior (assisted living) Visits: 920-269-7667 and select option 8

The best way to get the COVID-19 rates down is to take measures to prevent the spread including wearing a mask when out in the community, practice social distancing, avoid crowds, practice hand hygiene often and get a COVID-19 vaccine if you have not done so already.

This week the Biden Administration announced they will issue regulation in early October mandating the COVID-19 vaccine for all Medicare and Medicaid health settings, now including hospitals, home health and dialysis centers. This is good news for nursing homes that had originally been singled out with this regulation; nursing homes likely would have faced a major increase in staffing challenges as staff that choose not to be vaccinated may transfer to jobs in other settings. We hope that regulated COVID vaccination across most health care settings will dissuade caregivers from leaving the long-term care industry. We also hope it encourages unvaccinated staff to get their questions answered and consider taking this step to help protect their residents, co-workers and family.

Thank you for doing your part to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in our communities. As always, we will continue to do our part to keep your loved ones safe.

Julia Schramek RN, LNHA
Administrator

Dear Residents, Tenants and Family and Friends of Hope Health and Rehab / Hope Senior Living,

Hope Health and Hope Senior remains free of COVID-19. Weekly testing continues for all staff that have not received the COVID-19 vaccine. All results from testing this week came back negative. We continue to monitor our staff and residents/tenants closely and test them if they display any symptoms.

With the recent surge in COVID-19 cases, the Dodge County positivity rate is now at 9.2% (yellow/medium level). When our county is at or above 10%, Hope Health and Hope Senior will need to restrict indoor visitation again to compassionate care visits. We are very discouraged by this prospect but must do what is needed to prevent the transmission of COVID to our residents, tenants and team. We are not there just yet, but want families and friends to know what changes may be expected if limited visitation is put into place in the next few weeks.

WI DHS Guidance for restricted visitation:

Facilities should restrict visitor and nonessential health care personnel, expect for compassionate care situations. While end-of-life situations have been used as examples of compassionate care situations, the term “compassionate care situations” does not exclusively refer to end-of-life situations.

• A resident, who was living with their family before recently being admitted to a nursing home, is struggling with the change in environment and lack of physical family support.
• A resident who is grieving after a friend or family member recently passed away.
• A resident who needs cueing and encouragement with eating or drinking, previously provided by family and/or caregiver(s), is experiencing weight loss or dehydration.
• A resident, who used to talk and interact with others, is experiencing emotional distress, seldom speaking, or crying more frequently (when the resident had rarely cried in the past).

We highly encourage residents and families/friends to discuss who will be designated as the compassionate care visitor and also alternate methods of staying in touch should we need to limit visitation. Having your loved one set up and practice using video calls on their phones or tablets for Skype or Zoom may help ease the transition. Hope Health and Hope Senior offers free WIFI for our residents, tenants and visitors.

At this time, Hope Health and Hope Senior continue to offer in-person visitation. To help plan your visit and ensure proper COVID screening, distancing, and disinfection by our trained screeners, we continue to request that visitors call and inform the facility of the visit 24 hours in advance.

Hope Health (nursing home) Visits: 920-269-4386 and select option 8

Hope Senior (assisted living) Visits: 920-269-7667 and select option 8

We continue to encourage our team, residents and families to take measures to prevent the spread; wear a mask when out in the community, practice social distancing, avoid crowds, practice hand hygiene often and get a COVID-19 vaccine if you have not done so already. It will take effort from the whole community to bring the positivity rates back down again.

The Vaccine Reward Program launched by Gov. Evers has been extended through September 19^th. Now is a great time to get your vaccine and encourage others to get it as well. Learn more about the $100 Vaccine Reward and how to get vaccinated here:

https://www.dhs.wisconsin.gov/covid-19/100.htm?fbclid=IwAR0LY8LQgnY5Sm5N-EXMSxLtxMKXoJusQrZCGpya8tBP1D3vOOHSnCcUpDA

Thank you for doing your part to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in our communities. As always, we will continue to do our part to keep your loved ones safe.

Julia Schramek RN, LNHA

Administrator

Dear Residents, Tenants and Family and Friends of Hope Health and Rehab / Hope Senior Living,

Hope Health and Hope Senior remains free of COVID-19. Weekly testing continues for all staff that have not received the COVID-19 vaccine. We continue to monitor our staff and residents/tenants closely and test them if they display any symptoms.

Many of you may have heard that the Biden Administration will be mandating the COVID-19 vaccine for staff of nursing homes that participate in the Medicare and Medicaid programs. Also, this week Governor Evers launched a $100 Covid-19 Vaccine Reward Program and the FDA granted full approval to Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 Vaccine. We continue to share vaccine information with our team as it becomes available.

Visitors continue to be welcomed at Hope Health and Hope Senior regardless of vaccination status. To help plan your visit and ensure proper COVID screening, distancing, and disinfection by our trained screeners, we continue to request that visitors call and inform the facility of the visit 24 hours in advance.

Hope Health (nursing home) Visits: 920-269-4386 and select option 8

Hope Senior (assisted living) Visits: 920-269-7667 and select option 8

As the COVID-19 cases in our community rise again, we continue to encourage our team, residents and families to take measures to prevent the spread; wear a mask when out in the community, practice social distancing, avoid crowds, practice hand hygiene often and get a COVID-19 vaccine if you have not done so already.

Thank you for doing your part to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in our communities. As always, we will continue to do our part to keep your loved ones safe.

Julia Schramek RN, LNHA
Administrator

Dear Residents, Tenants and Family and Friends of Hope Health and Rehab / Hope Senior Living,

Hope Health and Hope Senior remains free of COVID-19. Weekly testing continues for all staff that have not received the COVID-19 vaccine. We continue to monitor our staff and residents/tenants closely and test them if they display any symptoms.

Many of you may have heard that the Biden Administration will be mandating the COVID-19 vaccine for staff of nursing homes that participate in the Medicare and Medicaid programs. Hope Health and Rehab are included in this group as many of our residents and families depend on these programs to pay for their care services.  This regulation has not yet been passed but we will keep our team, residents and families updated on how this will affect our facility.

Visitors continue to be welcomed at Hope Health and Hope Senior regardless of vaccination status. To help plan your visit and ensure proper COVID screening, distancing, and disinfection by our trained screeners, we continue to request that visitors call and inform the facility of the visit 24 hours in advance.

Hope Health (nursing home) Visits: 920-269-4386 and select option 8

Hope Senior (assisted living) Visits: 920-269-7667 and select option 8

As the COVID-19 cases in our community rise again, we continue to encourage our team, residents and families to take measures to prevent the spread; wear a mask when out in the community, practice social distancing, avoid crowds, practice hand hygiene often and get a COVID-19 vaccine if you have not done so already.

Thank you for doing your part to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in our communities. As always, we will continue to do our part to keep your loved ones safe.

Julia Schramek RN, LNHA
Administrator

Dear Residents, Tenants and Family and Friends of Hope Health and Rehab / Hope Senior Living,

Hope Health and Hope Senior remains free of COVID-19. Staff testing conducted last week came back with all results negative. We continue to monitor our staff and residents/tenants closely and test them if they display any symptoms.

We learned this week that the county positivity rate increased to 6.6%. With this increase, staff that have not received the COVID-19 vaccine will be required to be tested weekly again. To further protect our residents and team with this surge in COVID-19 cases, team members that have not received the vaccine are required to wear N95 masks when working directly with residents/tenants and their belongings.

Per recommendation from Dodge County Public Health, all visitors will be required to wear a mask for the duration of their visit whether vaccinated or not. If you do not have one when you arrive, a mask will be provided to you.

Visitors continue to be welcomed at Hope Health and Hope Senior. To help plan your visit and ensure proper COVID screening, distancing, and disinfection by our trained screeners, we continue to request that visitors call and inform the facility of the visit 24 hours in advance.

Hope Health (nursing home) Visits: 920-269-4386 and select option 8

Hope Senior (assisted living) Visits: 920-269-7667 and select option 8

Attached is the Dodge County Public Health Vaccine Clinic Schedule for August. Vaccine’s will be offered for free here in town at the Lomira School on August 26^th.  You can also enter your zip code into the 211 Wisconsin Search Tool to find a pop-up or one-day vaccination clinic near you. Vaccines continue to be offered and given at Hope to our residents/tenants and team members.

Thank you for doing your part to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in our communities. As always, we will continue to do our part to keep your loved ones safe.

Julia Schramek RN, LNHA

Administrator

Dear Residents, Tenants and Family and Friends of Hope Health and Rehab / Hope Senior Living,

Hope Health and Hope Senior remains free of COVID-19. Staff testing this week was conducted this week and we are awaiting results. We continue to monitor our staff, residents/tenants closely and test them if they display any symptoms.

As of last week, our county has now returned to the SUBSTANTIAL level of community transmission of COVID-19. Per recommendation from Dodge County Public Health, all visitors will be required to wear a mask for the duration of their visit whether vaccinated or not. If you do not have one when you arrive, a mask will be provided to you.

Hope Health and Hope Senior continue to follow the mitigation measures from Public Health and encourage our resident/tenant’s family and friends to do the same to help reduce the spread of COVID-19 in our communities and our facilities:

• Monitor your health daily
• Wear a mask in high-risk settings
• Wash hands often
• Physically distance from others (6 feet) in public settings
• Avoid poorly ventilated areas or places where people may be sick
• Get tested if you have symptoms, or if you have had exposure to someone with Covid
• Quarantine if you are exposed to someone with Covid-19
• Stay home when you are sick
• Get vaccinated for Covid-19

Visitors continue to be welcomed at Hope Health and Hope Senior at any time. To help ensure proper COVID screening, distancing, and disinfection by our trained screeners, we continue to request that all visitors call and inform the facility of the visit 24 hours in advance.

Hope Health (nursing home) Visits: 920-269-4386 and select option 8

Hope Senior (assisted living) Visits: 920-269-7667 and select option 8

Thank you for doing your part to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in our communities. As always, we will continue to do our part to keep your loved ones safe.

Julia Schramek RN, LNHA
Administrator

Dear Residents, Tenants and Family and Friends of Hope Health and Rehab / Hope Senior Living,

Hope Health and Hope Senior remains free of COVID-19! We continue to monitor our staff, residents/tenants closely and test them if they display any symptoms.

Visitors continue to be welcomed at Hope Health and Hope Senior. To help ensure proper COVID screening, distancing, and disinfection by our trained screeners, we continue to request that all visitors call and inform the facility of the visit 24 hours in advance. Please leave a message with your name, the resident’s/tenant’s name, date and time of the visit and if another person will be joining. We will only return your call if we cannot accommodate a visit at the requested time.

Hope Health (nursing home) Visits: 920-269-4386 and select option 8

Hope Senior (assisted living) Visits: 920-269-7667 and select option 8

Hope Health and Hope Senior require the use of face masks when entering and while walking throughout our buildings. If you do not have one when you arrive, a mask will be provided to you. Hope Health and Hope Senior’s mask policy is as follows:

Unvaccinated individuals must remain masked at all times.

Fully vaccinated individuals will remain masked at all times if they are with one person who is not vaccinated.

Fully vaccinated people who are alone or visiting with others who are fully vaccinated are able to remove their masks while visiting outdoors or visiting in a resident’s room where both resident and their roommate are vaccinated.

We encourage visits outdoors with our residents and tenants. Visitors are still asked to call and schedule outdoor visits to ensure proper screening, however, more than 2 friends/family members can visit if outdoors. 

Thank you for doing your part to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in our communities. As always, we will continue to do our part to keep your loved ones safe.

Julia Schramek RN, LNHA
Administrator

Dear Residents, Tenants and Family and Friends of Hope Health and Rehab / Hope Senior Living,

Hope Health and Hope Senior remains free of COVID-19. We continue to monitor our staff, residents/tenants closely and test them if they display any symptoms.

Visitors continue to be welcomed at Hope Health and Hope Senior. To help ensure proper COVID screening, distancing, and disinfection by our trained screeners, we request all visitors call and inform the facility of the visit 24 hours in advance. Hope Health and Hope Senior continue to require the use of face masks when entering and while walking throughout our buildings. If you do not have one when you arrive, a mask will be provided to you.

Hope Health (nursing home) Visits: 920-269-4386 and select option 8

Hope Senior (assisted living) Visits: 920-269-7667 and select option 8

Please leave a message with your name, the resident’s/tenant’s name, date and time of the visit and if another person will be joining. We will only return your call if we cannot accommodate a visit at the requested time.

We encourage visits outdoors with our residents and tenants. Visitors are still asked to call and schedule outdoor visits to ensure proper screening, however, more than 2 friends/family members can visit if outdoors. 

Thank you for doing your part to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in our communities. As always, we will continue to do our part to keep your loved ones safe.

Julia Schramek RN, LNHA
Administrator

Dear Residents, Tenants and Family and Friends of Hope Health and Rehab / Hope Senior Living,

Hope Health and Hope Senior remains free of COVID-19. We continue to monitor our staff, residents/tenants closely and test them if they display any symptoms.

We continue to test non-vaccinated staff members per guidance based off of the county positivity rate which currently requires testing monthly. Team member testing conducted this month came back with all negative results.

This week, Dodge County has been placed back in moderate community transmission status. With this change, all team members are back to wearing additional Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) of eye protection along with the surgical mask. Don’t be surprised when you see our team donning face shields again when you come to visit your loved one. Visitors will not be required to wear a face shield unless visiting with a resident/tenants on COVID isolation precautions.

With the increased community transmission status in our county, we continue to urge our team members and community to continue taking precautions and to get the COVID-19 vaccine. https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/prevent-getting-sick/prevention.html

Visitors continue to be welcomed at Hope Health and Hope Senior. To help ensure proper COVID screening, distancing, and disinfection by our trained screeners, we request all visitors call and inform the facility of the visit 24 hours in advance. Hope Health and Hope Senior continue to require the use of face masks when entering and while walking throughout our buildings. If you do not have one when you arrive, a mask will be provided to you.

Hope Health (nursing home) Visits: 920-269-4386 and select option 8

Hope Senior (assisted living) Visits: 920-269-7667 and select option 8

Please leave a message with your name, the resident’s/tenant’s name, date and time of the visit and if another person will be joining. We will only return your call if we cannot accommodate a visit at the requested time.

We encourage visits outdoors with our residents and tenants. Visitors are still asked to call and schedule outdoor visits to ensure proper screening, however, more than 2 friends/family members can visit if outdoors. 

Thank you for doing your part to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in our communities. As always, we will continue to do our part to keep your loved ones safe.

Julia Schramek RN, LNHA
Administrator

Dear Residents, Tenants and Family and Friends of Hope Health and Rehab / Hope Senior Living,

Hope Health and Hope Senior remains free of COVID-19. We continue to monitor our staff, residents/tenants closely and test them if they display any symptoms.

We continue to test non-vaccinated staff members per guidance based off of the county positivity rate which currently requires testing monthly. Team member testing was conducted last Monday and continues next Monday due to the 4^th of July holiday. All results received so far are negative.

Friends and family are welcome to visit our residents at Hope Health and Hope Senior at any time. To help ensure proper COVID screening, distancing, and disinfection by our trained screeners, we request all visitors call and inform the facility of the visit 24 hours in advance. Hope Health and Hope Senior continue to require the use of face masks when entering and while walking throughout our buildings. If you do not have one when you arrive, a mask will be provided to you.

Hope Health (nursing home) Visits: 920-269-4386 and select option 8

Hope Senior (assisted living) Visits: 920-269-7667 and select option 8

Please leave a message with your name, the resident’s/tenant’s name, date and time of the visit and if another person will be joining. We will only return your call if we cannot accommodate a visit at the requested time.

We encourage visits outdoors with our residents and tenants. Visitors are still asked to call and schedule outdoor visits to ensure proper screening, however, more than 2 friends/family members can visit if outdoors. 

Thank you for doing your part to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in our communities. As always, we will continue to do our part to keep your loved ones safe.

Julia Schramek RN, LNHA
Administrator

Dear Residents, Tenants and Family and Friends of Hope Health and Rehab / Hope Senior Living,

Hope Health and Hope Senior remains COVID-19 free in Staff and Residents/Tenants. We continue to monitor our staff, residents/tenants closely for COVID-19 and test them if they display any symptoms.

Friends and family are welcome to visit our residents at Hope Health and Hope Senior! To help ensure proper COVID screening, distancing, and disinfection by our trained screeners, we request all visitors call and inform facility of visit 24 hours in advance. Hope Health and Hope Senior continue to require the use of face masks when entering our buildings. If you do not have one when you arrive, a mask will be provided to you.

Hope Health (nursing home) Visits: 920-269-4386 and select option 8

Hope Senior (assisted living) Visits: 920-269-7667 and select option 8

Please leave a message with your name, the resident’s/tenant’s name, date and time of the visit and if another person will be joining. We will only return your call if we cannot accommodate a visit at the requested time.

We encourage visits outdoors with our residents and tenants. Visitors are still asked to call and schedule outdoor visits to ensure proper screening, however, more than 2 friends/family members can visit if outdoors. 

We will continue to host drive-thru fundraising events for our Activity Fund including our first annual Fundraising Fish Fry on July 30^th and our Brat Fry at the end of August. Check out our Facebooks Events page for more information.

Our facility is currently working on implementing the new OSHA guidance ETS. This is to ensure compliance for safety of our staff and residents which includes the installation of a new front desk at HHRC.  So, things may look slightly different in our front lobby for any visits in the coming days as we transition to the new desk. Thank you for your patience while we continue to improve our facility to be even safer. 

Joshua Butler
Assistant Administrator

Dear Residents, Tenants and Family and Friends of Hope Health and Rehab / Hope Senior Living,

Hope Health and Hope Senior remain COVID-19 free. We’ve been able to keep COVID out of our buildings for over 150 days! Starting this week under current guidance, Hope Health and Hope Senior team members only need to wear eye protection when in contact with a resident/tenant is on isolation/observation status for COVID-19. Staff were thrilled to be able to take off their face shields. We still require face masks to be worn by all team members.

For visitors at Hope Health and Hope Senior:

• Unvaccinated individuals must remain masked at all times.
• All individuals must wear a mask throughout the hallways and in the common areas indoors.
• Fully vaccinated individuals will remain masked at all times if they are with one person who is not vaccinated.
• Fully vaccinated people who are alone or visiting with others who are fully vaccinated are able to remove their masks while visiting outdoors or visiting in a resident’s room where both the resident and their roommate are vaccinated.

Friends and family are welcome to visit our residents at Hope Health and Hope Senior at any time. To help ensure proper COVID screening, distancing, and disinfection by our trained screeners, we request all visitors to call and inform the facility of the visit 24 hours in advance. Please wear a face mask when entering our buildings. If you do not have one when you arrive, a mask will be provided to you.

Hope Health (nursing home) Visits: 920-269-4386 and select option 8

Hope Senior (assisted living) Visits: 920-269-7667 and select option 8

Thank you for doing your part to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in our communities. As always, we will continue to do our part to keep your loved ones safe.

Julia Schramek RN, LNHA
Administrator

Dear Residents, Tenants and Family and Friends of Hope Health and Rehab / Hope Senior Living,

Hope Health and Hope Senior remain COVID-19 free. We continue to monitor our staff, residents/tenants closely for COVID-19 and test them if they display any symptoms.

Following new WI Department of Health Services guidance, unvaccinated staff members will now be tested at new frequencies based on the county positivity rate. With the current county rate at 2.1%, testing will be conducted 1x a month. Vaccinated team members do not require routine testing. If our facilities have one staff member, resident or tenant that tests positive for COVID-19, Hope Health or Hope Senior will conduct outbreak testing on all staff, residents or tenants.

We continue to take strides to prevent the transmission of COVID-19 such as screening all persons that enter our buildings, continued use of PPE for all team members, and face masks for all residents/tenants and visitors when in the company of an unvaccinated person.

Friends and family are welcome to visit our residents at Hope Health and Hope Senior, but we request all visitors to call and schedule their visit 24 hours in advance. This will help ensure proper COVID screening, distancing and disinfection by our trained screeners. Hope Health and Hope Senior continue to require the use of face masks when entering our buildings. If you do not have one when you arrive, a mask will be provided to you.

Hope Health (nursing home) Visits: 920-269-4386 and select option 8

Hope Senior (assisted living) Visits: 920-269-7667 and select option 8

Please leave a message with your name, the resident’s/tenant’s name, date and time of the visit and if another person will be joining. We will only return your call if we cannot accommodate a visit at the requested time.

We encourage visits outdoors with our residents and tenants. Visitors are still asked to call and schedule outdoor visits to ensure proper screening, however, more than 2 friends/family members can visit if outdoors. 

Thank you for doing your part to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in our communities. As always, we will continue to do our part to keep your loved ones safe.

Julia Schramek RN, LNHA
Administrator

Dear Residents, Tenants and Family and Friends of Hope Health and Rehab / Hope Senior Living,

Hope Health and Hope Senior remain COVID-19 free. We continue to monitor our staff, residents/tenants closely for COVID-19 and test them if they display any symptoms.

Our new visitation scheduling began this week. Hope Health and Hope Senior will no longer use Signup.com to schedule visits. Friends and family can call Hope Health or Hope Senior to schedule their visit in advance. We ask that you call at least 24 hours before the requested visitation time. This will help ensure proper COVID screening, distancing and disinfection by our trained screeners.

Hope Health (nursing home) Visits: 920-269-4386 and select option 8

Hope Senior (assisted living) Visits: 920-269-7667 and select option 8

Please leave a message with your name, the resident’s/tenant’s name, date and time of the visit and if another person will be joining. We will only return your call if we cannot accommodate a visit at the requested time.

We encourage you to enjoy a visit outdoors with our residents and tenants. Visitors are still asked to call and schedule outdoor visits to ensure proper screening, however, more than 2 friends/family members can visit if outdoors. 

Our activity departments are working to schedule in person church services again at Hope Health and Hope Senior. Our residents/tenants continue to take necessary precautions during group activities such as wearing masks and social distancing when in the company of folks that have not received the COVID-19 vaccine.

Thank you for doing your part to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in our communities. As always, we will continue to do our part to keep your loved ones safe.

Julia Schramek RN, LNHA
Administrator

Dear Residents, Tenants and Family and Friends of Hope Health and Rehab / Hope Senior Living,

Both Hope Health and Hope Senior remain COVID-19 free! This week’s staff testing came back with all negative results. We continue to test all staff members that have not received the COVID-19 vaccine every other week based off of the county positivity rate. Hope Health and Hope Senior continue to monitor our residents/tenants closely for COVID-19 and test them if they display any symptoms of COVID-19.

There will be some changes to our visitation process starting on June 1^st. We will no longer use Signup.com to schedule our resident/tenant visits. Instead, friends and family should call Hope Health or Hope Senior to schedule their visit in advance. This will help ensure proper COVID screening, distancing and disinfection by our trained screeners.

Hope Health (nursing home) Visits: 920-269-4386 and select option 8

Hope Senior (assisted living) Visits: 920-269-7667 and select option 8

Please leave a message with your name, the resident’s/tenant’s name, date and time of the visit and if another person will be joining. We will only return your call if we cannot accommodate a visit at the requested time.

Also starting June 1^st, all visitors will enter and be screened at the FRONT DOOR for Hope Health or Hope Senior visits. Door 3 will no longer be staffed for entrance.

As the weather starts to become warmer, we encourage visits outdoors with our residents and tenants. Visitors are still asked to call and schedule outdoor visits to ensure proper screening, however, more than 2 friends/family members can visit if outdoors. 

Thank you for doing your part to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in our communities. As always, we will continue to do our part to keep your loved ones safe.

Julia Schramek RN, LNHA
Administrator

Dear Residents, Tenants and Family and Friends of Hope Health and Rehab / Hope Senior Living,

Hope Health and Hope Senior remain COVID free! We are at 69 days since the last positive test result.

CDC guidance released last week states that vaccinated individuals no longer need to wear masks inside. However, healthcare facilities, including Hope Health and Hope Senior, still require masks to be worn. At Hope Health and Hope Senior:

• Unvaccinated individuals must remain masked at all times.
• All individuals must wear a mask throughout the hallways and in the common areas indoors.
• Fully vaccinated individuals will remain masked at all times if they are with one person who is not vaccinated.
• Fully vaccinated people who are alone or visiting with others who are fully vaccinated are able to remove their masks while visiting outdoors or visiting in a resident’s room where both the resident and their roommate are vaccinated.

We request that all visits for our residents and tenants be scheduled in advance to ensure proper COVID screening, distancing and disinfection by our trained screeners. You can conveniently schedule your May visit online at https://signup.com/go/nsgJOQE.

If you are not able to visit during the offered times on Signup or if your loved one is on isolation precautions (such as a new admission), please call our facilities to arrange a visitation time: Hope Health (nursing home visits) at 920-269-4386 and select “Nurse” or Hope Senior (assisted living visits) at 920-269-7667 and select “Caregiver”. We will accommodate a time that will work for you.

Thank you for doing your part to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in our communities. As always, we will continue to do our part to keep your loved ones safe.

Julia Schramek RN, LNHA
Administrator

Dear Residents, Tenants and Family and Friends of Hope Health and Rehab / Hope Senior Living,

Hope Health and Hope Senior remain COVID free! Please see our current case breakdown:

Confirmed Residents/Tenants/Staff: 0
Recovered Residents/Tenants/Staff: 55
Days Since Positive Test Result: 62

The CDC released updated guidance this week that fully vaccinated people can resume activities they did before the pandemic, including participating in indoor and outdoor activities – large or small – without wearing a mask or physically distancing. However, the recommendations for use of PPE by health care personnel remain unchanged. Our team members will continue to wear masks and face shields when in any resident care area.

The vaccination rate at Hope Senior Living is 100% so our tenants are able to participate in social activities without the need to wear a mask. Since there are several residents at Hope Health that have not completed the full vaccination series, residents will continue to wear masks during activities and when in common areas.

For visitors, the new guidance states that for fully vaccinated visitors:

• While alone in the patient/resident’s room or the designated visitation room, patients/residents and their visitor(s) can choose to have close contact (including touch) and to not wear source control.
• Visitors should wear source control and physically distance from other healthcare personnel and other patients/residents/visitors that are not part of their group at all other times while in the facility.

A person is considered fully vaccinated against COVID-19 if it has been two or more weeks since they got the second dose in a two-dose series (such as Pfizer or Moderna), or one dose of a single-dose vaccine (such as Johnson & Johnson).

Hope Health and Hope Senior will not require proof of vaccination from our visitors. We will continue to provide surgical masks for all visitors to wear upon entrance and all visitors will continue to be required to wear a mask while walking throughout our facilities.

All visits need to be scheduled in advance to ensure proper COVID screening, distancing and disinfection by our trained screeners – please pass this information along to friends or family that may not receive our weekly updates.

You can conveniently schedule your visit online using our Signup Group page at https://signup.com/go/nsgJOQE. If you are not able to visit during the offered times on Signup or if your loved one is on isolation precautions (such as a new admission), please call our facilities to arrange an “After Hours” visitation time: Hope Health (nursing home visits) at 920-269-4386 and select “Nurse” or Hope Senior (assisted living visits) at 920-269-7667 and select “Caregiver”. We will do our best to accommodate a time that will work for you.

Thank you for doing your part to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in our communities. As always, we will continue to do our part to keep your loved ones safe.

Julia Schramek RN, LNHA
Administrator

Dear Residents, Tenants and Family and Friends of Hope Health and Rehab / Hope Senior Living,

Hope Health and Hope Senior remain COVID free! Please see our current case breakdown:

Confirmed Residents/Tenants/Staff: 0
Recovered Residents/Tenants/Staff: 55
Days Since Positive Test Result: 53

Per guidance, tenants at Hope Senior Living are now able to participate in unrestricted dining and activities (meaning they are no longer limited to 1 tenant per table). Our assisted living tenants are also able to go mask free as their COVID-19 vaccination rate is at 100%!

Residents and tenants of both Hope Health and Hope Senior continue to enjoy safe visits with family and friends. All visits need to be scheduled in advance to ensure proper COVID screening, distancing and disinfection by our trained screeners – please pass this information along to friends or family that may not receive our weekly updates.

You can conveniently schedule your visit online using on our Signup Group page at https://signup.com/go/nsgJOQE. If you are not able to visit during the offered times on Signup or if your loved one is on isolation precautions (such as a new admission), please call our facilities to arrange an “After Hours” visitation time: Hope Health (nursing home visits) at 920-269-4386 and select “Nurse” or Hope Senior (assisted living visits) at 920-269-7667 and select “Caregiver”. We will do our best to accommodate a time that will work for you.

All items entering the building (including clothing) continue to be disinfected before being delivered to our residents and tenants. You can drop off 1 grocery size bag of items during your visit or anytime using our contactless drop off bin located at the Hope Senior Living Activity door on Grove St. Please reach out to us if you would like to arrange an exchange of seasonal clothing items.

Thank you for doing your part to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in our communities. As always, we will continue to do our part to keep your loved ones safe.

Julia Schramek RN, LNHA
Administrator

Dear Residents, Tenants and Family and Friends of Hope Health and Rehab / Hope Senior Living,

No news continues to be GREAT news. Hope Health and Hope Senior remain COVID free! Please see our current case breakdown:

Confirmed Residents/Tenants/Staff: 0
Recovered Residents/Tenants/Staff: 55
Days Since Positive Test Result: 46

Starting this week, team members that are fully vaccinated are no longer required to complete the routine COVID-19 testing unless the facility is on outbreak status or if the staff member develops signs or symptoms related to COVID-19. Unvaccinated staff will continue to get tested every other week per guidance based off of the county positivity rate. All team members continue to complete screening when entering the facility and to wear the designated PPE.

All visits with our residents and tenants need to be scheduled ahead of time to ensure proper COVID screening, distancing and disinfection by our trained screeners. Visits continue to be conveniently scheduled online using Signup. You can schedule your visit on our Signup Group page at https://signup.com/go/nsgJOQE. If you are not able to visit during the offered times on Signup or if your loved one is on isolation precautions as a new admission, please call our facilities to arrange an “After Hours” visitation time: Hope Health (nursing home visits) at 920-269-4386 and select “Nurse” or Hope Senior (assisted living visits) at 920-269-7667 and select “Caregiver”. We will do our best to accommodate a time that will work for you.

Just a reminder, we are able to allow deliveries from Heartfelt Flowers and Gifts (920-269-1277) and The Village Flower Shoppe (920-387-4540). These deliveries must come directly from these businesses (as opposed to family picking up and dropping off) as we have processes in place for safe receipt and delivery to your loved ones. 

Thank you for doing your part to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in our communities. As always, we will continue to do our part to keep your loved ones safe.

Julia Schramek RN, LNHA
Administrator

Dear Residents, Tenants and Family and Friends of Hope Health and Rehab / Hope Senior Living,

Hope Health and Hope Senior remain COVID free. Hope continues all staff testing every other week per guidance based off of the county positivity rate. Please see our current case breakdown:

Confirmed Residents/Tenants/Staff: 0
Recovered Residents/Tenants/Staff: 55
Days Since Positive Test Result: 39

Our residents and tenants continue to enjoy safe communal activities and dining at Hope Health and Hope Senior. Our activity team is busy planning events to hold outdoors when it finally starts to feel like spring.

It has been great to see so many friends and family come in to see our residents and tenants throughout April. Visits with our residents and tenants continue to be scheduled using Signup to ensure proper COVID screening and disinfection by our trained screener. Visitation time slots for May are now open! You can schedule your visit on our Signup Group page at https://signup.com/go/nsgJOQE.

If you are not able to visit during the offered times on Signup, please call our facilities to arrange a visitation time: Hope Health (nursing home visits) at 920-269-4386 and select “Nurse” or Hope Senior (assisted living visits) at 920-269-7667 and select “Caregiver”. We will do our best to accommodate a time that will work better for you.

Thank you for doing your part to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in our communities. As always, we will continue to do our part to keep your loved ones safe.

Julia Schramek RN, LNHA
Administrator

Dear Residents, Tenants and Family and Friends of Hope Health and Rehab / Hope Senior Living,

Hope Health and Hope Senior remain COVID free! Hope continues all staff testing every other week per guidance based off of the county positivity rate. Testing was done on team members this last Monday; all results received so far have been negative. Please see our current case breakdown:

Confirmed Residents/Tenants/Staff: 0
Recovered Residents/Tenants/Staff: 55
Days Since Positive Test Result: 32

Our residents and tenants have been enjoying safe and socially distanced communal activities, dining and visits. As more residents and tenants spend time outdoors, we ask that friends and family help us to ensure COVID precautions by scheduling all visits in advance and to please, not approach any resident or tenant that may be outside.

Visits with our residents and tenants continue to be scheduled using Signup to ensure proper COVID screening and disinfection by our trained screener. Additional times have been opened for next weekend. You can schedule your visit on our Signup Group page at https://signup.com/go/nsgJOQE. If you are not able to visit during the offered times on Signup, please call our facilities to arrange a visitation time: Hope Health (nursing home visits) at 920-269-4386 and select “Nurse” or Hope Senior (assisted living visits) at 920-269-7667 and select “Caregiver”. We will do our best to accommodate a time that will work better for you.

Please call the facilities and speak with a member of our infection team if you are planning to take your loved one out. Recommendations on how to stay safe during Personal and Social Activities can be found here: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/daily-life-coping/personal-social-activities.html

Thank you for doing your part to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in our communities. As always, we will continue to do our part to keep your loved ones safe.

Julia Schramek RN, LNHA
Administrator

Dear Residents, Tenants and Family and Friends of Hope Health and Rehab / Hope Senior Living,

Hope Health and Hope Senior remains COVID free! Please see our current case breakdown:

Confirmed Residents/Tenants: 0
Confirmed Staff: 0
Recovered Residents/Tenants/Staff: 55
Days Since Positive Test Result: 25

Our residents and tenants have been enjoying safe and socially distanced communal activities, dining and visits. We were thrilled to get the opportunity to open the windows and enjoy the warm weather this week. As more residents and tenants spend time outdoors, we ask that friends and family help us to ensure COVID precautions by scheduling all visits in advance and to please, not approach any resident or tenant that may be outside.

Visits with our residents and tenants continue to be scheduled using Signup to ensure proper COVID screening and disinfection by our trained screener. Visitors for both Hope Health and Hope Senior using Signup will enter at Door 3 on Ashford Ave. You can schedule your visit on our Signup Group page at https://signup.com/go/nsgJOQE.

We understand that these open Signup time slots for visits may not fit all of our family and friends’ schedules. Please call Hope Health (nursing home visits) at 920-269-4386 and select “Nurse” or Hope Senior (assisted living visits) at 920-269-7667 and select “Caregiver” to arrange a time to visit. We will do our best to accommodate a time that will work better for you.

Additional CDC guidance received states that in most cases where residents leave the facility for less than 24 hours (family gatherings, medical appointments) and have not had close contact with someone with COVID-19, these residents may not need to quarantine upon return to the facility. These situations will each be considered on a case-by-case basis. Please call and speak with a member of our infection team if you are planning to take your loved one out. Recommendations on how to stay safe during Personal and Social Activities can be found here: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/daily-life-coping/personal-social-activities.html

Items for your loved one may continue to be dropped off at the contactless bin at the Hope Senior Living Activity Room entrance at any time or at Door 3 during your scheduled visit. Please continue to limit your drop off items to 1 grocery sized bag to allow our caregivers adequate time to disinfect all items. 

Thank you for doing your part to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in our communities. As always, we will continue to do our part to keep your loved ones safe.

Julia Schramek RN, LNHA
Administrator

Dear Residents, Tenants and Family and Friends of Hope Health and Rehab / Hope Senior Living,

We are pleased to report that the COVID testing for Hope Senior Living Tenants and Staff came back with all negative results. Hope Senior Tenants have been tested again yesterday and staff members will be tested again next Monday. Should results come back negative, all indoor visits, communal dining and activities will be able to resume on Thursday, April 1^st.

Please see our current case breakdown:

Confirmed Residents/Tenants: 0
Confirmed Staff: 0
Recovered Residents/Tenants/Staff: 55
Days Since Positive Test Result: 11

Hope Health continues staff COVID testing every other week per guidance. We continue to monitor for symptoms and perform temperature checks for all team members at the start of their shift and for anyone entering our buildings. Any team member exhibiting signs or symptoms is immediately excluded from work until cleared by our infection prevention team. This week, policies were updated to discontinue the use of disinfected scrubs and to ensure all team members with direct resident or tenant contact wear face shields for eye protection.

The Activity Department and Infection Team are working to safely plan events such as bringing back musicians, volunteers and pet therapy to our buildings.   

Our residents and tenants would love to have you visit! April visits will continue to be scheduled using Signup to ensure proper COVID screening and disinfection. The entrance and screening area for Hope Senior visits will change starting April 1st to door 3 on Ashford Ave. You can schedule your visits on our Signup Group page at https://signup.com/go/nsgJOQE.

Items for your loved one may continue to be dropped off at the contactless bin at the Hope Senior Living Activity room entrance or during your visit. Please continue to limit your drop off items to 1 grocery sized bag to allow our caregivers adequate time to disinfect all items. 

As always, Hope continues to support ways to help you have meaningful interactions with your loved one. Our team members will be happy to assist with video calls through Zoom and Skype. Please reach out to the facilities, Hope Health at 920-269-4386 and Hope Senior at 920-269-7667 to set up a time for video chats.

Thank you for doing your part to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in our communities. As always, we will continue to do our part to keep your loved ones safe.

Julia Schramek RN, LNHA
Administrator

Dear Residents, Tenants and Family and Friends of Hope Health and Rehab / Hope Senior Living,

We are pleased to report no new cases of COVID-19 for residents, tenants or team members this week! Please see our current case breakdown below:

Confirmed Residents/Tenants: 0
Confirmed Staff: 0
Recovered Residents/Tenants/Staff: 54
Days Since Positive Test Result: 40

Our next COVID Vaccine Clinic is next week on Tuesday, March 9^th.  Tenants of Hope Senior will receive their 2^nd dose and any new residents/tenants or team members wanting to start their first vaccine in the series will be able to do so.

As more folks are being vaccinated, we understand that there are questions if masks still need to be worn and if regular visits, activities and communal dining can resume. This information from the Department of Health Services COVID Vaccine website COVID-19 can help answer questions you may have. Vaccine Frequently Asked Questions states the following:

Yes, you still need to practice normal pandemic behavior after you have gotten two doses of the vaccine. Here is why:

• In the short run, it takes several weeks after getting the vaccine before it builds-up a protective immune response in your body. Until then, you are still vulnerable to get sick from the COVID-19 virus.
• The vaccine is very good at keeping the vaccinated person healthy and able to take care of their friends, family and community.
  • For those who are vaccinated and do not get sick, we don’t know yet if some virus particles can survive and reproduce in your body that you might to spread to others when you breathe, cough, or sneeze.
• Because the virus is still spreading, it is especially important to wear a mask and continue physical distancing to protect yourself and your family.

Hope continues all staff testing every other week per guidance. We continue to monitor for symptoms and perform temperature checks for all team members at the start of their shift, wear disinfected scrubs and gowns and use additional PPE measures for those residents/tenants on observation isolation. Any team member exhibiting signs or symptoms is excluded from work until cleared by our infection prevention team.

Hope Health and Hope Senior continue with communal activities and dining with transmission-based precautions in place. Hope Health and Hope Senior continue to hold indoor visitation but starting this month have extended our visits to all immediate family members. Up to 2 visitors may come together for these hour-long visits as long as both visitors reside in the same household.

Our “Outdoor” Visits allow visitors to be seated in a heated visitation vestibule with our residents/tenants seated inside the nursing home. These visits are safely held through a glass window – we’ll still call them “Outdoor” visits since our visitors will not be entering the main care or common areas nor having any close contact with our team. Visitors should bring a cell phone along to better hear your loved one through the glass partition. These 20 minute “Outdoor” Visits are open to all family and friends.

You can schedule your visits on our Signup Group page at https://signup.com/go/nsgJOQE.

Items for your loved one may continue to be dropped off at the contactless bin at the Hope Senior Living Activity room entrance. Please continue to limit your drop off items to 1 grocery sized bag to allow our caregivers adequate time to disinfect all items.

As always, Hope continues to support ways to help you have meaningful interactions with your loved one. Our team members will be happy to assist with video calls through Zoom and Skype. Please reach out to the facilities, Hope Health at 920-269-4386 and Hope Senior at 920-269-7667 to set up a time for video chats.

Thank you for doing your part to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in our communities. As always, we will continue to do our part to keep your loved ones safe.

Julia Schramek RN, LNHA
Administrator

Dear Residents, Tenants and Family and Friends of Hope Health and Rehab / Hope Senior Living,

We are pleased to report no new cases of COVID-19 for residents, tenants or team members this week. Please see our current case breakdown below:

Confirmed Residents/Tenants: 0
Confirmed Staff: 0
Recovered Residents/Tenants/Staff: 54
Days Since Positive Test Result: 32

Hope continues all staff testing every other week per guidance. We continue to monitor for symptoms and perform temperature checks for all team members at the start of their shift, wear disinfected scrubs and gowns and use additional PPE measures for those residents/tenants on observation isolation. Any team member exhibiting signs or symptoms is excluded from work until cleared by our infection prevention team.

The next COVID Vaccine Clinic will be held at Hope on March 9^th where tenants of Hope Senior will receive their 2^nd dose. Any new residents/tenants or team members wanting to start their first vaccine in the series will still be able to do so at this time. With more opportunities for our community members to receive the COVID-19 vaccine, we encourage you to consider receiving the shot and help do your part to get to the new normal.

Hope Health and Hope Senior are excited to offer indoor visits in March to any immediate family member. Up to 2 visitors may come at a time as long as both visitors reside in the same household.

Our “Outdoor” Visits now have the visitors seated in the heated visitation vestibule with our residents/tenants seated inside the nursing home. These visits are safely held through a glass window – we’ll still call them “Outdoor” visits since our visitors will not be entering the main care or common areas nor having any close contact with our team. Visitors should bring a cell phone along to better hear your loved one through the glass partition. These “Outdoor” Visits are open to all family and friends.

You can schedule your visit on our Signup Group page at https://signup.com/go/nsgJOQE.

Items for your loved one may be dropped off at the contactless bin at the Hope Senior Living Activity room entrance. You are able to drop off at this designated area at any time. Sorry, but we are not able to accept any items dropped off at the front entrances of Hope Health or Hope Senior. Please continue to limit your drop off items to 1 grocery sized bag to allow our caregivers adequate time to disinfect all items.

As always, Hope continues to support ways to help you have meaningful interactions with your loved one. Our team members will be happy to assist with video calls through Zoom and Skype. Please reach out to the facilities, Hope Health at 920-269-4386 and Hope Senior at 920-269-7667 to set up a time for video chats.

Thank you for doing your part to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in our communities. As always, we will continue to do our part to keep your loved ones safe.

Julia Schramek RN, LNHA
Administrator

Dear Residents, Tenants and Family and Friends of Hope Health and Rehab / Hope Senior Living,

Last week, as part of our required COVID-19 outbreak testing, Hope Health testing on residents that had not had a positive COVID test in the last 90 days. We are pleased to report that no cases of COVID-19 were found in residents. Routine staff testing has also come back with all negative results. Additionally, no residents of Hope Health, tenants at Hope Senior or staff members are exhibiting any signs of COVID-19.

 The team member that tested positive has completed their required isolation period and has been cleared to return to work by the county and our infection prevention team.

Confirmed Residents/Tenants: 0

Confirmed Staff: 0

Recovered Residents/Tenants/Staff: 54

Days Since Positive Test Result: 11

Hope remains in close communication with local and state health officials to ensure we are taking all the appropriate steps under current circumstances. We are also following guidance from the CDC and CMS to reduce the spread and impact of COVID-19.

Our 2^nd COVID-19 Vaccine Clinic will take place next Tuesday, February 9^th.  Residents and staff members will receive their second dose and tenants at Hope Senior will be able to receive their first dose on the date. Additionally, any staff member that did not receive their first dose last month, will have the opportunity to still receive the vaccine. We encourage those in the community to receive the vaccine when able to.

Hope Health will still need to hold off on indoor visits (except for compassionate care situations), salon services, communal dining and activities until next week as long as there are no additional cases detected. Indoor visits at Hope Senior (assisted living) will continue as scheduled as the positive case was isolated to just the nursing home. You can schedule a visit on our Signup Group page at https://signup.com/go/nsgJOQE.

Family and friends will be allowed to drop off 1 grocery size bag of personal items (snacks, cards, mail, toiletries, gifts) at our contactless drop-off area. Please, ensure that ALL items are clearly labeled with the resident/tenant’s name. Our designated drop-off is located at the Hope Senior Living Activity room entrance (east end of the building on Grove St). There is a bin located at the door where you can place the items. You can drop off at any time; our caregiving team checks the bin often. Give us a call at 920-269-4386 option 0 (zero) to let us know you have dropped off items that may not handle the cold weather well, such as sodas.

We also continue to allow deliveries from Heartfelt Flowers and Gifts (920-269-1277) and The Village Flower Shoppe (920-387-4540) any day of the week! These deliveries must come directly from these businesses (as opposed to family picking up and dropping off) as we have processes in place for safe receipt and delivery to your loved ones.  Please consider sending your loved one flowers to brighten their day.

Please consider joining us for our Drive-Thru Sweetheart Spaghetti Dinner on Thursday, February 11^th from 11am-6pm and Friday, February 12^th from 3pm-7pm. Spaghetti dinner plates are just $12 and funds go towards our resident and tenant activities at Hope. More information can be found on our Facebook Events Page.

As always, Hope continues to support ways to help you have meaningful interactions with your loved one. Our team members will be happy to assist with video calls through Zoom and Skype. Please reach out to the facilities, Hope Health at 920-269-4386 and Hope Senior at 920-269-7667 to set up a time for video chats.

We continue to urge our staff, family members and friends to wear a face covering while out in the community, practice social distancing, avoid crowds and practice hand hygiene often.

Thank you for doing your part to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in our communities. As always, we will continue to do our part to keep your loved ones safe.

Julia Schramek RN, LNHA
Administrator

Dear Residents, Tenants and Family and Friends of Hope Health and Rehab / Hope Senior Living,

Hope Health learned this week that a staff member has tested positive for COVID-19 placing the nursing home/rehab center back on outbreak status. The team member had not exhibited any signs or symptoms of COVID-19 and the positive case was discovered during our routine staff testing. This team member will not be allowed to return to work until cleared by the county and our Infection Prevention team.

Confirmed Residents/Tenants: 0

Confirmed Staff: 1

Recovered Residents/Tenants/Staff: 53

Days Since Positive Test Result: 4

Hope remains in close communication with local and state health officials to ensure we are taking all the appropriate steps under current circumstances. We are also following guidance from the CDC and CMS to reduce the spread and impact of COVID-19. Hope Health team members are wearing N95 or KN95 masks and continue to wear disinfected scrubs/gowns. Caregivers with any contact with residents also wear eye protection. For residents on COVID-19 observation (new admissions, off campus for appointments) staff wear additional disposable gowns, separate masks and face shields.

Hope is eagerly awaiting our 2^nd COVID-19 Vaccine Clinic on February 9^th where residents and staff will receive their second dose.  Tenants at Hope Senior will be able to receive their first dose on the date. Additionally, any staff member that did not receive their first dose last month, will have the opportunity to still receive the vaccine.

With the outbreak status at Hope Health (nursing home), we had to make the tough decision to hold off on indoor visits for the time being. Hope Health will also cease communal dining and activities until results come back for our resident testing and there are no additional positive staff cases for 14 days.

Indoor visits at Hope Senior (assisted living) will continue as scheduled as the positive case was isolated to just the nursing home. We are still hosting Outdoor visits for both Hope Health and Hope Senior Residents and Tenants. You can schedule a visit on our Signup Group page at https://signup.com/go/nsgJOQE. Our team will screen all visitors within 24 hours before each visit and again at arrival at the facility, provide required personal protective equipment, safe distancing and thorough disinfection between visits.

Please note: we do not allow any “window visits” at the resident/tenant windows at Hope Health and Hope Senior. This is for the safety of our visitors and to respect the privacy of our residents/tenants. Outdoor visitation is offered where family and friends can safely experience those “window visits” while your loved one is kept warm in our visitation vestibule. 

Family and friends will be allowed to drop off 1 grocery size bag of personal items (snacks, cards, mail, toiletries, gifts) at our contactless drop-off area. Please, ensure that ALL items are clearly labeled with the resident/tenant’s name. Our designated drop-off is located at the Hope Senior Living Activity room entrance (east end of the building on Grove St). There is a bin located at the door where you can place the items. You can drop off at any time; our caregiving team checks the bin often. Give us a call at 920-269-4386 option 0 (zero) to let us know you have dropped off items that may not handle the cold weather well, such as sodas.

We also continue to allow deliveries from Heartfelt Flowers and Gifts (920-269-1277) and The Village Flower Shoppe (920-387-4540) any day of the week! These deliveries must come directly from these businesses (as opposed to family picking up and dropping off) as we have processes in place for safe receipt and delivery to your loved ones.  Please consider sending your loved one flowers to brighten their day.

As always, Hope continues to support ways to help you have meaningful interactions with your loved one. Our team members will be happy to assist with video calls through Zoom and Skype. Please reach out to the facilities, Hope Health at 920-269-4386 and Hope Senior at 920-269-7667 to set up a time for video chats.

Thank you for doing your part to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in our communities. As always, we will continue to do our part to keep your loved ones safe.

Julia Schramek RN, LNHA
Administrator

Dear Residents, Tenants and Family and Friends of Hope Health and Rehab / Hope Senior Living,

Hope continues to remain COVID-19 free with no new cases in residents/tenants or team members. Please see our current case breakdown:

Confirmed Residents/Tenants: 0

Confirmed Staff: 0

Recovered Residents/Tenants/Staff: 53

Days Since Positive Test Result: 32

We continue to take the crucial steps in combating COVID looking forward to our next vaccine clinic. The clinic for the second dose at Hope Health is scheduled for February 9^th.  We are pleased to announce that Walgreens will be offering the Covid vaccine in this clinic to all Tenants at Hope Senior Living for their first vaccine. Just a friendly reminder to all that if you are a Power of Attorney for health care (POAHC) we will need another form signed for the administering of each dose of the vaccine.

Hope will continue to follow the guidance from the CDC, CMS and state and local health officials and take all appropriate steps for as long as we need to. This includes staff members continuing to wear disinfected scrubs/gowns and masks at all times. Caregivers in contact with folks on COVID-19 observation wear additional, disposable PPE.

We are very excited as are our tenants and residents that our beautician was back this week making our residents and tenants look great and continues to do so with COVID-19 precautions in place. She will be continuing at this time with her normal weekly visits doing the great work she does to provide the extra little boost in the residents and tenants day.  Communal dining with safe, social distancing is being offered to our residents and tenants again as well.

We have started indoor visitation with both facilities being off of outbreak status and our community positivity rate at 8.8%.  Those interested in doing these visits there are still openings to schedule your visit and February dates are now open and available to sign-up for.   Our team will screen all visitors within 24 hours before each visit and again at arrival at the facility, provide personal protective equipment, safe distancing and thorough disinfection between visits.

For those wanting to sign up for an indoor visit, there is a separate Signup Schedule for Hope Health (nursing home) and Hope Senior (assisted living) “Essential” indoor visits. We have opened up the “Essential Visitor” to sign up for an additional spot this month as we have many openings still available. Please call us at 920-269-4386 if you are unsure of your “Essential Visitor” status.

Please note: we do not allow any “window visits” at the resident/tenant windows at Hope Health and Hope Senior. This is for the safety of our visitors and to respect the privacy of our residents/tenants. Outdoor visitation is offered where family and friends can safely experience those “window visits” while your loved one is kept warm in our visitation vestibule. 

Scheduling for both indoor and outdoor visits is available on our Signup Group page at https://signup.com/go/nsgJOQE.

As always, Hope continues to support ways to help you have meaningful interactions with your loved one. Our team members will be happy to assist with video calls through Zoom and Skype. Please reach out to the facilities, Hope Health at 920-269-4386 and Hope Senior at 920-269-7667 to set up a time for video chats.

Thank you for doing your part to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in our communities. As always, we will continue to do our part to keep your loved ones safe.

Joshua Butler
Assistant Administrator

Dear Residents, Tenants and Family and Friends of Hope Health and Rehab / Hope Senior Living,

Hope continues to remain COVID-19 free with no new cases in residents/tenants or team members. Please see our current case breakdown:

Confirmed Residents/Tenants: 0

Confirmed Staff: 0

Recovered Residents/Tenants/Staff: 53

Days Since Positive Test Result: 25

Hope Health conducted its first COVID-19 vaccine clinic for our nursing home residents and staff members of both Hope Health and Hope Senior on Tuesday. This was a very exciting day for us as we take this crucial step in combatting COVID. The clinic for the second dose at Hope Health is scheduled for February 9^th.  We are hopeful the Hope Senior Living tenants will be able to receive their first dose on this date.

Hope will continue to follow the guidance from the CDC, CMS and state and local health officials and take all appropriate steps for as long as we need to. This includes staff members continuing to wear disinfected scrubs/gowns and masks at all times. Caregivers in contact with folks on COVID-19 observation wear additional, disposable PPE. Our beautician is back weekly serving our residents and tenants with COVID-19 precautions in place. Communal dining with safe, social distancing is being offered to our residents and tenants again as well.

We started indoor visitation last weekend with both facilities being off of outbreak status and our community positivity rate at 8.2%.  To ease this transition and to limit the number of community contacts in our buildings, each resident/tenant and their family has designated 1 “Essential Visitor” for these scheduled indoor visits. Our team will screen all visitors within 24 hours before each visit and again at arrival at the facility, provide personal protective equipment, safe distancing and thorough disinfection between visits.

For those wanting to sign up for an indoor visit, there is a separate Signup Schedule for Hope Health (nursing home) and Hope Senior (assisted living) “Essential” indoor visits. We have opened up the “Essential Visitor” to sign up for an additional spot this month as we have many openings still available. Please call us at 920-269-4386 if you are unsure of your “Essential Visitor” status.

Please note: we do not allow any “window visits” at the resident/tenant windows at Hope Health and Hope Senior. This is for the safety of our visitors and to respect the privacy of our residents/tenants. Outdoor visitation is offered where family and friends can safely experience those “window visits” while your loved one is kept warm in our visitation vestibule. 

Scheduling for both indoor and outdoor visits is available on our Signup Group page at https://signup.com/go/nsgJOQE.

As always, Hope continues to support ways to help you have meaningful interactions with your loved one. Our team members will be happy to assist with video calls through Zoom and Skype. Please reach out to the facilities, Hope Health at 920-269-4386 and Hope Senior at 920-269-7667 to set up a time for video chats.

Thank you for doing your part to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in our communities. As always, we will continue to do our part to keep your loved ones safe.

Julia Schramek, RN LNHA

Administrator

Dear Residents, Tenants and Family and Friends of Hope Health and Rehab / Hope Senior Living,

Hope remains COVID-19 free with no new cases in residents/tenants or team members! Please see our current case breakdown:

• Confirmed Residents/Tenants: 0
• Confirmed Staff: 0
• Recovered Residents/Tenants/Staff: 53
• Days Since Positive Test Result: 18

Hope Health is excited for our first COVID-19 vaccine clinic scheduled for this coming Tuesday, January 12^th.  Our residents and team members that provided consent will be receiving the Moderna vaccine through the federal partnership with Walgreens Pharmacy. Walgreens and our Infection Prevention team will coordinate the vaccine clinic right at our facility. The clinic for the second dose is scheduled for February 9^th. Hope Senior Living tenants and staff will receive the clinic at a later date when distribution for assisted living is determined.

We encourage anyone that is able to receive the COVID-19 vaccine to thoughtfully consider receiving it. The vaccine is our next step to a return to normalcy but it will not happen overnight. It will still take community effort with social distancing and mask wearing to slow the spread of COVID-19. Hope will continue to follow the guidance from the CDC, CMS and state and local health officials and take all appropriate steps for as long as necessary.

With county positivity rates below the “Red” 10% level, we are able and required to begin indoor visitation for residents and tenants this weekend. To ease this transition and continue to limit the number of contacts in our buildings, each resident/tenant and their family has designated 1 “Essential Visitor” for scheduled indoor visits. Our team will screen all visitors within 24 hours before each visit and again at arrival at the facility, provide personal protective equipment, safe distancing and thorough disinfection between visits.

Please note: we do not allow any “window visits” at the resident/tenant windows at Hope Health and Hope Senior. This is for the safety of our visitors and to respect the privacy of our residents/tenants. Outdoor visitation is offered where family and friends can safely experience those “window visits” while your loved one is kept warm in our visitation vestibule. 

Scheduling for both indoor and outdoor visits is available on our Signup Group page at https://signup.com/go/nsgJOQE.

Please note, there is a separate Signup Schedule for Hope Health (nursing home) and Hope Senior (assisted living) “Essential” indoor visits. There are many visitation time slots open yet for both indoor and outdoor visits. Our folks would love to see you!

As always, Hope continues to support ways to help you have meaningful interactions with your loved one. Our team members will be happy to assist with video calls through Zoom and Skype. Please reach out to the facilities, Hope Health at 920-269-4386 and Hope Senior at 920-269-7667 to set up a time for video chats.

Just a reminder that Hope will continue to allow deliveries from Heartfelt Flowers and Gifts (920-269-1277) and The Village Flower Shoppe (920-387-4540) any day of the week. These deliveries must come directly from these businesses (as opposed to family picking up and dropping off) as we have processes in place for safe receipt and delivery to your loved ones.  Please consider sending your loved one flowers to brighten their day.

Thank you for doing your part to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in our communities. As always, we will continue to do our part to keep your loved ones safe.

Julia Schramek, RN LNHA
Administrator

Happy New Year to our Residents, Tenants and Family and Friends of Hope Health and Rehab / Hope Senior Living.

We are pleased report that we have no additional cases of COVID-19 in our residents and tenants here at Hope. The one COVID-19 positive staff member on isolation at home has been cleared to return to work by the county and our Infection Prevention team on 12/31/2020. Additionally, there are no current clusters of 3 or more staff members exhibiting symptoms at this time. We are happy to ring in the New Year COVID free!

Please see the table for our current confirmed case breakdown.

• Confirmed Residents/Tenants: 0
• Confirmed Staff: 0
• Recovered Residents/Tenants and Staff: 53
• Days since a resident/tenant or staff member has tested positive: 11

Hope is eagerly awaiting our first COVID-19 vaccine clinic scheduled for January 12^th. We encourage anyone that is able to receive the COVID-19 vaccine to thoughtfully consider receiving it. We all must do our part to put an end to this pandemic and get back to some sense of normalcy.

Hope still remains on outbreak status until 14 days after the end of the last positive resident’s isolation period. The county positivity rate has dropped to 9.4% which means we will be able to allow indoor visitation starting January 9^th! In order to minimize the number of contacts within the facilities, each resident and tenant has chosen 1 designated “Essential Visitor” to be able to visit inside the building. Outdoor visitation is still being offered and our residents/tenants have truly enjoyed being able to see family and friends at our designated visitation area.

Scheduling for both indoor and outdoor visits is available on our Signup Group page at https://signup.com/go/nsgJOQE. Sign up for the indoor visits will be open 1/2/2021 at 8am. Please note, there is a separate Signup Schedule for Hope Health (nursing home) and Hope Senior (assisted living) “Essential” indoor visits.

Residents or tenants on COVID-19 precautionary observation (such as new admissions or those returning for appointments, family gathering off Hope grounds) will not be able to have indoor or outdoor visitors until the end of their 2-week observation period.  Please call to inquire about your loved one’s ability to have visitors.

Indoor visits will require a <24 hours COVID-19 screening and an additional screening upon entry into the facility. The <24 hours screening will be sent by email the evening before the visit; please help us fulfill this screening requirement by replying to the email prior to your visit. If the screening is not completed, you may not be able to see your loved one. Masks continue to be required for all persons on the Hope Health and Hope Senior grounds.

Hope continues to support ways to help you have meaningful interactions with your loved one. We encourage families to send cards, pictures and recordings of family and friends sharing holiday stories and greetings to provide support to our residents and tenants. Our team members will be happy to assist with video calls through Zoom and Skype. Please reach out to the facilities, Hope Health at 920-269-4386 and Hope Senior at 920-269-7667 to set up a time for video chats.

Items for your loved one may be dropped off at the contactless bin at the Hope Senior Living Activity room entrance. You are able to drop off at this designated area at any time. Sorry, but we are not able to accept any items dropped off at the front entrances of Hope Health or Hope Senior. Please continue to limit your drop off items to 1 grocery sized bag to allow our caregivers adequate time to disinfect all items.

Thank you for doing your part to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in our communities. As always, we will continue to do our part to keep your loved ones safe. We wish you all a happy and healthy New Year!

Julia Schramek, RN LNHA
Administrator

Dear Resident/Tenant and Family and Friends of Hope Health and Rehab / Hope Senior Living,

Late Wednesday night, Hope received notification that one (1) more resident has tested positive for COVID-19. This resident was tested as part of our required resident testing on Monday, 12/14/2020. This resident had already been on strict isolation and closely monitored by skilled nursing staff.

Since the last update, eight residents had completed their isolation period after their COVID-19 diagnosis. We are sad to report that 2 of those residents had not fully recovered from COVID-19 and passed away this week. Our thoughts are with the family, friends and caregivers during this difficult time.

No additional staff members have been identified as being COVID positive from routine testing conducted last week and there are no clusters of 3 or more staff members exhibiting symptoms at this time. Routine testing was conducted on Monday, 12/14 and we are awaiting those results.

Please see the table for our current confirmed case breakdown.

• Confirmed Residents/Tenants: 2
• Confirmed Staff: 1
• Recovered Residents/Tenants and Staff: 50
• Days since a resident/tenant or staff member has tested positive: 4

Hope remains in close communication with local and state health officials to ensure we are taking all the appropriate steps under current circumstances. We are also following guidance from the CDC and CMS to reduce the spread and impact of COVID-19.

Hope is eagerly awaiting the arrival of the COVID-19 vaccine for our residents/tenants and staff. We appreciate everyone’s quick response in completing consents for the vaccine. Hope Health encourages anyone that is able to receive the COVID-19 vaccine to thoughtfully consider receiving it. We all must do our part to put an end to this pandemic and hopefully get life back to normal sooner.

All team members continue to wear N95 or KN95 masks while in the facility and disinfected scrubs/cloth gowns along with face shields when in direct contact with residents or tenants. Additionally, team members are donning disposable gowns and disposable face shields for any interaction with COVID-19 positive residents.  

With positive cases remaining in residents at Hope Health and the continued high county positivity rate at 18.4%, we will continue to hold off on indoor visitation at our facilities. We understand that this necessary precaution is very difficult for our residents/tenants and their loved ones. Hope is asking our family and friends to complete the following survey to gauge interest in continuing outdoor visitation even during this cold winter weather. https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/VJJQF3T

Hope continues to support ways to help you have meaningful interactions with your loved one. We encourage families to send cards, pictures and recordings of family and friends sharing holiday stories and greetings to provide support to our residents and tenants. Our team members will be happy to assist with video calls through Zoom and Skype. Please reach out to the facilities, Hope Health at 920-269-4386 and Hope Senior at 920-269-7667 to set up a time for video chats.

Family and friends may continue to drop off 1 grocery size bag of items for your loved one. Hope’s caregiving team needs to disinfect all items; it is a very time-consuming task to disinfect each item so please respect the 1 bag limit.  We ask that ALL items are clearly labeled with the resident/tenant’s name. Our designated contact-less drop off area is located at the Hope Senior Living Activity room entrance (east end of the building on Grove St). There is a bin located at the door where you can place the items. You can drop off at any time. Just give us a call at 920-269-4386 option 0 (zero) to let us know you have dropped off items.

Our Amazon Wish List also has ideas for sending packages of support to our residents, tenants and team. Our team has been so grateful for the comfort items received. https://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/wishlist/VMHVF5QISFK6/ref=cm_wl_huc_title.

Thank you for doing your part to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in our communities. As always, we will continue to do our part to keep your loved ones safe.

Julia Schramek, RN LNHA
Administrator

Dear Resident/Tenant and Family and Friends of Hope Health and Rehab / Hope Senior Living,

Hope received results from required resident/tenant testing and routine staff testing conducted on Monday, 12/7 and learned that 1 resident and 1 additional team member have tested positive for COVID-19. Residents/tenants with COVID positive results continue to be placed on strict isolation, closely monitored by skilled nursing staff and treated per their preference on their Advance Directive. The newly diagnosed positive team member had been exhibiting symptoms and was already on quarantine at home awaiting COVID-19 test results. This team member will not be able to return to work until cleared by the infection team at Hope and the Dodge County Health Department.

Since the last update on 12/8, four additional team members have become symptomatic and are on quarantine at home per CDC guidelines. One staff member that had completed their period for isolation remains symptomatic and will not return to work until fully recovered.

We are pleased to report that 2 more residents have recovered from COVID-19, completed their isolation period and have returned to their previous residence at Hope Health. Five additional staff members have recovered from their COVID-19 diagnosis and have met the CDC return to work guidelines. We expect more residents and team members to recover over this weekend.

Please see the table for our current confirmed case breakdown.

• Confirmed Residents/Tenants: 9
• Confirmed Staff: 1
• Recovered Residents/Tenants and Staff: 42
• Days since a resident/tenant or staff member has tested positive: 1

All team members continue to wear N95 or KN95 masks while in the facility and disinfected scrubs/cloth gowns along with face shields when in direct contact with residents or tenants. Additionally, team members are donning disposable gowns and disposable face shields for any interaction with COVID-19 positive residents.  

Hope remains in close communication with local and state health officials to ensure we are taking all the appropriate steps under current circumstances. We are also following guidance from the CDC and CMS to reduce the spread and impact of COVID-19.

With positive cases in our residents at Hope Health, we will continue to hold off on outdoor visitation. We understand that this necessary precaution is very difficult for our residents/tenants and their loved ones. Hope continues to support ways to help you have meaningful interactions with your loved one. We encourage families to send cards, pictures and recordings of family and friends sharing holiday stories and greetings to provide support to our residents and tenants. Our team members will be happy to assist with video calls through Zoom and Skype. Please reach out to the facilities, Hope Health at 920-269-4386 and Hope Senior at 920-269-7667 to set up a time for video chats.

Family and friends may continue to drop off 1 grocery size bag of items to be properly disinfected by our caregiving team. Please, ensure that ALL items are clearly labeled with the resident/tenant’s name. Our designated drop off area is located at the Hope Senior Living Activity room entrance (east end of the building on Grove St). There is a bin located at the door where you can place the items. You can drop off at any time. Just give us a call at 920-269-4386 option 0 (zero) to let us know you have dropped off items.

Our Hope Giving Trees have been displayed at Piggly Wiggly in Lomira. Each ornament has a gift idea for our residents and tenants for our Hope Christmas Party. All gifts must be received by Monday, 12/14 to ensure proper sit time for decontamination before Santa makes his special deliveries. 

Our Amazon Wish List also has ideas for sending packages of support to our residents, tenants and team. Our team has been so grateful for the comfort items already received from family and friends. If you would like to treat our team to a meal, gift cards are appreciated!

https://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/wishlist/VMHVF5QISFK6/ref=cm_wl_huc_title.

Thank you for doing your part to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in our communities. As always, we will continue to do our part to keep your loved ones safe.

Julia Schramek, RN LNHA
Administrator

Dear Resident/Tenant and Family and Friends of Hope Health and Rehab / Hope Senior Living,

We are pleased to report that since our last update that 1 additional resident has recovered from COVID-19, completed their isolation period and has returned to their previous residence at Hope Health.

With routine staff testing and rapid point of care testing conducted Monday, 11/30 and throughout this week, we learned that 1 new resident and 2 team members have tested positive for COVID-19.  Staff members testing positive remain isolated at home until cleared to work by our infection team at Hope. Four additional team members have become symptomatic and are on quarantine per CDC guidelines. Those staff members exhibiting COVID19 symptoms are also on quarantine at home per CDC guidelines.  

It is with a heavy heart that we report that two residents have passed away this week due to complications from COVID-19. Our thoughts are with the family and friends of these residents during this difficult time.

Please see the table for our current confirmed case breakdown.

• Confirmed Residents/Tenants: 13
• Confirmed Staff: 11
• Recovered Residents/Tenants and Staff: 29

We have reached the point of positive cases at Hope Health where newly diagnosed residents are being isolated in their room as opposed to moving them to the COVID-19 unit. We continue to have separate, dedicated nursing staff caring for the COVID-19 positive residents. All team members continue to wear N95 or KN95 masks while in the facility and disinfected scrubs/cloth gowns along with face shields when in direct contact with residents or tenants. Additionally, team members are donning disposable gowns for any interaction with COVID-19 positive residents.  

Hope remains in close communication with local and state health officials to ensure we are taking all the appropriate steps under current circumstances. We are also following guidance from the CDC and CMS to reduce the spread and impact of COVID-19.

With positive cases in our residents at Hope Health, we will continue to hold off on outdoor visitation. We understand that this necessary precaution is very difficult for our residents/tenants and their loved ones. Hope continues to support ways to help you have meaningful interactions with your loved one. We encourage families to send cards, pictures and recordings of family and friends sharing holiday stories and greetings to provide support to our residents and tenants. Our team members will be happy to assist with video calls through Zoom and Skype. Please reach out to the facilities, Hope Health at 920-269-4386 and Hope Senior at 920-269-7667 to set up a time for video chats.

Family and friends may continue to drop off 1 grocery size bag of items to be properly disinfected by our caregiving team. Please, ensure that ALL items are clearly labeled with the resident/tenant’s name. Our designated drop off area is located at the Hope Senior Living Activity room entrance (east end of the building on Grove St). There is a bin located at the door where you can place the items. You can drop off at any time. Just give us a call at 920-269-4386 option 0 (zero) to let us know you have dropped off items.

Our Hope Giving Trees have been displayed at Piggly Wiggly in Lomira. Each ornament has a gift idea for our residents and tenants for Santa to deliver at our Hope Christmas Party. Please help spread the word to others in the community to help make our folk’s holiday a little brighter this year.

Our Amazon Wish List also has ideas for sending packages of support to our residents, tenants and team. Our team has been so grateful for the comfort items already received from family and friends. If you would like to treat our team to a meal, gift cards are appreciated!

https://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/wishlist/VMHVF5QISFK6/ref=cm_wl_huc_title.

Thank you for doing your part to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in our communities. As always, we will continue to do our part to keep your loved ones safe.

Julia Schramek, RN LNHA
Administrator

Dear Resident/Tenant and Family and Friends of Hope Health and Rehab / Hope Senior Living,

Rapid point of care antigen testing conducted on Monday and today identified seven additional residents at Hope Health to be positive for COVID-19. All positive residents were immediately isolated and are being closely monitored by skilled nursing staff. Testing today also confirmed two tenants at Hope Senior to be COVID-19 positive as well. These tenants are being isolated in private apartments and are being closely monitored by dedicated staff. Four residents that had been on isolation in the COVID-19 unit had been cleared to return to their previous residence at Hope Health this week.

Two additional staff members have tested positive over the weekend and one staff member tested positive today. We are pleased to report that two staff members that had previously been on isolation at home have been cleared to return to work by our infection team and the County Health Department.  

Below is our current confirmed case breakdown:

• Confirmed Residents/Tenants: 15
• Confirmed Staff: 13
• Recovered Residents/Tenants and Staff: 24

We know this is a difficult time for everyone. We will continue to provide you with updates as they become available. Please know that we are strictly adhering to all directions from the local and state health departments and in close communication with our Medical Director.

Please feel free to reach out with any questions at 920-269-4386.

Julia Schramek, RN LNHA
Administrator

Dear Resident/Tenant and Family and Friends of Hope Health and Rehab / Hope Senior Living,

We hope that you had a wonderful Thanksgiving and despite the challenging year, have much to be grateful for.

With routine staff testing and rapid point of care testing conducted last Thursday 11/19 and throughout this week, we learned that 3 additional residents at Hope Health and 11 more staff members are positive for COVID-19. Positive residents were immediately relocated to our sealed COVID-19 isolation unit where they are cared for by dedicated nursing staff. Staff members remain isolated at home until cleared to work by our infection team at Hope. Our team is monitoring all residents and team members closely and conducting rapid point of care testing for anyone exhibiting symptoms in order to quickly identify and properly treat cases.

Please see the table for our current confirmed case breakdown.

• Confirmed Residents/Tenants: 10
• Confirmed Staff: 12
• Recovered Residents/Tenants and Staff: 18

Hope remains in close communication with local and state health officials to ensure we are taking all the appropriate steps under current circumstances. We are also following guidance from the CDC and CMS to reduce the spread and impact of COVID-19 such as:

• Follow up testing for all residents/tenants after a confirmed case
• Enhanced infection control precautions
• Screening residents, staff, and essential visitors for expanded list of symptoms
• Restricting visitation and entry of people to the building
• Testing staff and residents for COVID-19 based on current protocols and availability
• Postponing communal activities
• Dropping off necessary items for the designated unit via contactless strategies
• Utilizing disposable products when possible for our COVID-19 positive residents
• Staff utilizing N95 masks when caring for COVID-19 positive residents and when there is a positive case confirmed in a staff member

With positive cases in our residents at Hope Health, we will continue to hold off on outdoor visitation. We understand that this necessary precaution is very difficult for our residents/tenants and their loved ones. Hope continues to support ways to help you have meaningful interactions with your loved one. We encourage families to send cards, pictures and recordings of family and friends sharing holiday stories and greetings to provide support to our residents and tenants. Our team members will be happy to assist with video calls through Zoom and Skype. Please reach out to the facilities, Hope Health at 920-269-4386 and Hope Senior at 920-269-7667 to set up a time for video chats.

Knowing that many family members use the visitation time to drop off essential items (snacks, cards, mail, toiletries, gifts), we are still allowing drop off of those items. Family and friends are allowed to drop off 1 grocery size bag of items at a time as all items need to be properly disinfected by our caregiving team. Please, ensure that ALL items are clearly labeled with the resident/tenant’s name. Also note: our designated drop off area has changed to the Hope Senior Living Activity room entrance (east end of the building on Grove St). There are bins located at the door where you can place the items. You can drop off at any time. Just give us a call at 920-269-4386 option 0 (zero) to let us know you have dropped off items.

Our Hope Giving Trees have been displayed at Piggly Wiggly in Lomira. Each ornament has a gift idea for our residents and tenants for Santa to deliver at our Hope Christmas Party. Please help spread the word to others in the community to help make our folk’s holiday a little brighter this year.

Our Amazon Wish List also has ideas for sending packages of support to our residents, tenants and team. Our team has been so grateful for the comfort items already received from family and friends. If you would like to treat our team to a meal, gift cards are appreciated!

https://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/wishlist/VMHVF5QISFK6/ref=cm_wl_huc_title.

Thank you for doing your part to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in our communities. As always, we will continue to do our part to keep your loved ones safe.

Julia Schramek, RN LNHA
Administrator

Dear Resident/Tenant and Family and Friends of Hope Health and Rehab / Hope Senior Living,

Rapid point of care antigen testing is currently being conducted daily for our Hope Health residents with our recent outbreak in order to quickly identify any additional developing cases. Testing conducted on Sunday afternoon identified one (1) resident to be positive for COVID-19. Testing conducted on Hope Health residents this afternoon revealed an additional two (2) residents to be positive. All positive residents were immediately isolated and moved to the COVID-19 unit where they are being closely monitored by skilled nursing staff.

Below is our current confirmed case breakdown:

• Confirmed Residents/Tenants: 7
• Confirmed Staff: 1
• Recovered Residents/Tenants and Staff: 18

We know this is a difficult time for everyone. We will continue to provide you with updates as they become available. Please know that we are strictly adhering to all directions from the local and state health department.

Please feel free to reach out with any questions at 920-269-4386.

Julia Schramek, RN LNHA
Administrator

Dear Resident/Tenant and Family and Friends of Hope Health and Rehab / Hope Senior Living,

Routine staff testing conducted on November 12^th, revealed one (1) Hope Health staff member to be positive for COVID. All residents at Hope Health and tenants at Hope Senior were then tested Monday along with all team members. With this testing, we learned last night that one (1) resident at Hope Health was positive for COVID-19. Our infection prevention nurse conducted rapid point of care antigen testing on all residents last night and discovered that one (1) additional resident is also positive for COVID-19. We immediately took measures to isolate the affected residents by opening up a COVID unit with negative pressure rooms, sealed plastic barriers and dedicated team members that will not work with unaffected residents immediately after caring for our COVID positive folks.

Additionally, a Hope Senior team member began exhibiting mild symptoms while at work and was tested using a rapid point of care antigen test. Rapid testing allowed us to quickly identify this positive. This team member will remain on isolation at home until cleared by our infection team at Hope and by Dodge County Public Health. Rapid point of care testing was also conducted yesterday on the tenants at Hope Senior; thankfully, these results all came back negative! We are also pleased to report that all staff members that had tested positive last week and our tenant that had previously tested positive have all recovered.

Please see the table for our current confirmed case breakdown.

Hope remains in close communication with local and state health officials to ensure we are taking all the appropriate steps under current circumstances. We are also following guidance from the CDC and CMS to reduce the spread and impact of COVID-19 such as:

• Follow up testing for all residents/tenants after a confirmed case
• Enhanced infection control precautions
• Screening residents, staff, and essential visitors for expanded list of symptoms
• Restricting visitation and entry of people to the building
• Testing staff and residents for COVID-19 based on current protocols and availability
• Postponing communal activities
• Dropping off necessary items for the designated unit via contactless strategies
• Utilizing disposable products when possible for our COVID-19 positive residents
• Staff utilizing N95 masks when caring for COVID-19 positive residents and when there is a positive case confirmed in a staff member

At this time the county positivity rate is currently at 18.6%.  Wisconsin continues to be at crisis level. We plead for the community’s continued support to stop the spread of COVID-19 during the upcoming holiday. We understand that it is hard to stay safe at home but we need our community’s help to keep our residents, tenants, staff and their families safe. Please go to www.dhs.wisconsin.gov/news/releases/111220.htm for information on celebrating the holidays safely.

With positive cases in our residents at Hope Health, we had to make the decision to cancel all outdoor visits for the rest of this month. We understand that this necessary precaution is very difficult for our residents/tenants and their loved ones. Hope continues to support ways to help you have meaningful interactions with your loved one. We encourage families to send cards, pictures and recordings of family and friends sharing holiday stories and greetings to provide support to our residents and tenants. Our team members will be happy to assist with video calls through Zoom and Skype. Please reach out to the facilities, Hope Health at 920-269-4386 and Hope Senior at 920-269-7667 to set up a time for video chats.

Knowing that many family members use the visitation time to drop off essential items (snacks, cards, mail, toiletries, gifts), we are still allowing drop off of those items. Family and friends will be allowed to drop off 1 grocery size bag of items at a time as all items need to be properly disinfected by our caregiving team. Please, ensure that ALL items are clearly labeled with the resident/tenant’s name. Also note: our designated drop off area has changed to the Hope Senior Living Activity room entrance (east end of the building on Grove St). There are bins located at the door where you can place the items. You can drop off at any time. Just give us a call at 920-269-4386 option 0 (zero) to let us know you have dropped off items.

We are able to allow deliveries from Heartfelt Flowers and Gifts (920-269-1277) and The Village Flower Shoppe (920-387-4540) any day of the week! These deliveries must come directly from these businesses (as opposed to family picking up and dropping off) as we have processes in place for safe receipt and delivery to your loved ones.  Please consider sending your loved one flowers to brighten their day for the upcoming holidays.

Thank you for doing your part to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in our communities. As always, we will continue to do our part to keep your loved ones safe.

Julia Schramek, RN LNHA
Administrator

Dear Resident/Tenant and Family and Friends of Hope Health and Rehab / Hope Senior Living,

As reported earlier this week, we received confirmation that a tenant at Hope Senior tested positive for COVID-19. This tenant had not been symptomatic and had been tested in response to a staff member receiving a positive result. This tenant remains on strict isolation and staff members are taking all necessary precautions to prevent the spread to other tenants and team members. All other tenants at Hope Senior and the residents at Hope Health were tested on Monday, November 9th and those results all came back NEGATIVE.

With mandatory staff testing also conducted on Thursday, November 5^th and Monday, November 9^th, we learned that 4 additional team members are positive for COVID-19. These team members had not been exhibiting any symptoms, will be on quarantine at home and are not able to return to work until cleared by our infection team at Hope and by Dodge County Public Health. Contact tracing is not finding transmission to be between staff members but from contacts in the community.

Please see the table for our current confirmed case breakdown. Because we are not accepting any admissions that are COVID-19 positive, we have adjusted our case breakdown table.

At this time the county positivity rate is currently at 19.9%.  Wisconsin is at crisis level, setting records for COVID-19 cases. We need the community’s continued help and support to stop the spread of COVID-19 in order to help keep our vulnerable residents and tenants safe. We understand that it is hard to stay safe at home with the holidays approaching. Please go to www.dhs.wisconsin.gov/news/releases/111220.htm for information on celebrating the holidays safely. We urge you to continue to avoid crowds, wear a face covering and practice frequent and thorough hand hygiene.

We will continue to monitor the community levels and the impact it has on positive cases in our facility. Our signup for outdoor visitation is still open for visits the week of Thanksgiving, however, please understand that these may be cancelled depending on the case situation. Visits can be scheduled at: https://signup.com/go/nsgJOQE.  Family and friends will be allowed to drop off 1 grocery size bag of items (snacks, magazines, toiletries) during the scheduled visit time even if the visits are cancelled and our team will disinfect the items prior to giving to your loved one. You can drop off the bag of items in the Door 3 visitation area. Just give us a call at 920-269-4386 option 0 (zero) to let us know you will be bringing items.

We have received some recent guidance on food items brought in by family and friends for loved ones. Since there is a possibility of COVID being transmitted on food, we will no longer be able to accept items that cannot be disinfected or reheated (such as a jello salad). Baked goods will need to be shelf stable for at least 3 days in order for proper time decontamination. Homemade cookies will be accepted but please understand that those cookies will be “quarantined” for 3 days before they can be given to your loved one. We will no longer be accepting homemade breads, cakes or brownies. Rest assured, our Activity and Dietary Teams are working hard to provide our residents and tenants with homemade comfort food items.

We continue to allow deliveries from Heartfelt Flowers and Gifts (920-269-1277) and The Village Flower Shoppe (920-387-4540) any day of the week! These deliveries must come directly from these businesses (as opposed to family picking up and dropping off) as we have processes in place for safe receipt and delivery to your loved ones.  Please consider sending your loved one flowers to brighten their day for the upcoming holidays.

Hope continues to support ways to help you have meaningful interactions with your loved one. We encourage families to send cards, pictures and recordings of family and friends sharing holiday stories and greetings to provide support to our residents and tenants. Our team members will be happy to assist with video calls through Zoom and Skype. Please reach out to the facilities, Hope Health at 920-269-4386 and Hope Senior at 920-269-7667 to set up a time for video chats.

Thank you for doing your part to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in our communities. As always, we will continue to do our part to keep your loved ones safe.

Julia Schramek, RN LNHA
Administrator

Dear Resident/Tenant and Family and Friends of Hope Health and Rehab / Hope Senior Living,

We want to inform you that we have received lab confirmation today that a tenant at Hope Senior tested positive for COVID-19. This tenant had not been exhibiting any signs of COVID and remains in a private apartment. We have also received notification that 3 additional staff members have come back with positive results so far from Thursday’s mandatory staff testing. These team members were also not exhibiting any signs of COVID. No other tenants, residents or staff are exhibiting any symptoms at this time.

Resident and tenant safety are our top priority. We are doing everything we can to ensure we stop the spread of COVID-19 within Hope Health and Hope Senior, including staying in very close communication with local and state health officials to ensure we are taking all the appropriate steps.

We encourage you to call Hope Health at 920-269-4386 or Hope Senior at 920-269-7667 for updates on the status of your loved one. We understand that you are concerned, but it is crucial that we continue to take measures to reduce the spread of this virus, such as holding off on visitations, salon services and communal dining. We also understand that connecting with family members is incredibly important to our residents. Family members are encouraged to connect with their loved ones through video chat, phone calls, texting, or social media formats.

We need your help in battling COVID-19. Please visit the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) website to learn how you can help prevent the spread in our community.

We know this is a difficult time for everyone. We will continue to provide you with updates as they become available. Please know that we are strictly adhering to all directions from the local and state health department.

We know that you may have questions and we encourage you to contact our center:
Hope Health and Rehabilitation
Julia Schramek 920-325-4814
Steve Kuranz 262-275-4141

Sincerely, 
Steve Kuranz, Executive Director

Dear Resident/Tenant and Family and Friends of Hope Health and Rehab / Hope Senior Living,

As reported earlier this week, a newly confirmed case of COVID-19 in a staff member over the weekend placed Hope Health and Hope Senior back on outbreak status and prompted the testing of Hope Health residents on Monday along with our mandatory staff testing. All resident results came back negative! We did, however, receive confirmation yesterday that another staff member tested positive with Monday’s testing. With this positive result, we had tested all tenants at Hope Senior yesterday and are awaiting those results.

If a resident/tenant tests positive, we will directly contact the residents/tenants and their representative(s) of their condition and implement protocols for their care and treatment. We will also send an update message to those on our COVID-19 email update list as well as post an announcement on our website and Facebook page. Due to government privacy requirements, we cannot divulge specific information about the individuals who have confirmed or suspected COVID-19, unless they are your family member and you have the necessary permissions to receive such information.

All COVID positive staff members and any staff members exhibiting symptoms remain on quarantine at home and are not able to return to work until cleared by our infection team at Hope and by Dodge County Public Health. Hope continues to stay in close communication with local and state health officials to ensure we are taking all the appropriate steps under current circumstances. Our Infection Prevention team at Hope continues to review guidance to ensure we are putting procedures in place to keep our residents, tenants and staff safe.

Please see the table for our current confirmed case breakdown:

At this time the county positivity rate is currently at 18.7%.  We need your help to stop the spread of COVID within our community. Please, continue to avoid crowds, stay home if able, wear a face covering if out in the community, and practice frequent and thorough hand hygiene.

All team members continue to wear PPE (personal protective equipment) which includes a N95 or KN95 mask while in the facility. Team members with direct contact with residents/tenants additionally wear disinfected scrubs/cloth gowns along with eye protection. Thank you to those that continue to donate gowns, gloves, masks, disinfectant and hand sanitizer to help support our efforts at preventing the transmission of COVID-19 throughout our building.

With the continued rising high county positivity rate and positive cases placing Hope on outbreak status, we have made the tough decision to hold off on salon services by our beautician and outdoor visitation at this time. Hope will continue to allow compassionate care visitation such as for end of life or special essential circumstances. We are hoping to resume outdoors visitation the week of Thanksgiving.

The holidays will certainly look different this year and we will share guidance for those families that wish to take their loved one out to spend time with family. Hope will offer additional activities and events throughout the holiday season to lift the spirits of those we care for. We encourage families to send cards, pictures and recordings of family and friends sharing holiday stories and greetings to provide support to our residents and tenants.

We continue to encourage interactions with your loved one through phone, Zoom and Skype. Please reach out to the facilities, Hope Health at 920-269-4386 and Hope Senior at 920-269-7667 to set up a time for a video chat.

We also continue to accept deliveries of packages from USPS, UPS and FedEx. Our residents/tenants have enjoyed receiving comfort items delivered right to the facility. Our Amazon wish list is still available if you would like to contribute a treat for our residents or hard-working team. Thanks to all that continue to gift our residents and staff with your generosity! https://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/wishlist/VMHVF5QISFK6/ref=cm_wl_huc_title

Thank you for doing your part to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in our communities. As always, we will continue to do our part to keep your loved ones safe.

Julia Schramek, RN LNHA
Administrator

Dear Resident/Tenant and Family and Friends of Hope Health and Rehab / Hope Senior Living,

Hope Health and Rehabilitation received confirmation yesterday that a staff member has tested positive for COVID-19. This staff member was showing no symptoms of COVID but had been tested last Thursday as part of our mandatory staff testing. This staff has not worked since Wednesday, October 28^th. Today, we are testing all team members as part of our required twice weekly requirement as well as testing all Hope Health residents with the recent positive test result placing us back on outbreak status.

Please see the table below for our current case breakdown.

With being on outbreak status, all team members are wearing N95 or K95 masks while in the facility in addition to wearing disinfected scrubs and eye protection when in contact with residents or tenants. Residents will be tested weekly and staff members will continue to be tested twice a week.

We continue to following guidance from the CDC and CMS to reduce the spread and impact of COVID-19, such as:

• Follow up testing for all residents/tenants after a confirmed case
• Enhanced infection control precautions
• Screening residents, staff, and essential visitors for expanded list of symptoms
• Restricting visitation and entry of people to the building
• Testing staff and residents for COVID-19 based on current protocols and availability
• Preparing a separate unit for our COVID-19 positive residents
• Plans to install a sealed barrier to further promote infection control
• Dropping off necessary items for the designated unit via limited contact strategies
• Utilizing disposable products when possible for our COVID-19 positive residents

Our team continues to follow strict precautions at Hope Health and Hope Senior. Hope continues to stay in close communication with local and state health officials to ensure we are taking all the appropriate steps under current circumstances. Our Infection Prevention team at Hope continues to review guidance to ensure we are putting procedures in place to keep our residents, tenants and staff safe. Visitation (aside from compassionate care, end of life visits) will be on hold until we receive further guidance from the Dodge County Health Department and our Medical Director.

We encourage you to call Hope Health and Rehab at 920-269-4386 for updates on the status of your loved one. We understand your concern for your loved one but we must continue to restrict visitation to reduce the spread of this virus. We highly encourage interactions through phone, Zoom and Skype. Please reach out to the facilities, Hope Health at 920-269-4386 and Hope Senior at 920-269-7667 to set up a time for a video chat.

We continue to urge our staff, family members and friends to wear a face covering while out in the community, practice social distancing, avoid crowds and practice hand hygiene often.

Thank you for doing your part to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in our communities. As always, we will continue to do our part to keep your loved ones safe.

Julia Schramek RN, LNHA
Administrator

Dear Resident/Tenant and Family and Friends of Hope Health and Rehab / Hope Senior Living,

Hope Health / Hope Senior Remains negative with no positive cases of COVID-19 for any residents or tenants since the beginning of the pandemic. As it is said in the News our caregivers are working on the front lines of the pandemic and are truly HERO’s and love the work they do.  Thank you also for those that have shown their wonderful support for our team in their own way with positive calls, thoughtful gifts, and support of their loved ones. Additionally, all staff testing conducted last week returned with negative results. We continue weekly testing of staff based off of Dodge County’s COVID-19 positivity rate for the week of 18^th thru the 24^th.

Please see the table for our current confirmed case breakdown:

Hope continues to stay in close communication with local and state health officials to ensure we are taking all the appropriate steps under current circumstances. Our Infection Prevention team at Hope continues to review guidance to ensure we are putting procedures in place to keep our residents, tenants and staff safe.

Team members with direct contact with residents/tenants continue to wear disinfected scrubs/cloth gowns along with masks and eye protection. For any resident/tenant on COVID observation, team members additionally wear an N95 or K95 mask.

County Positivity:  At this time, we have been updated from CMS that the current COVID positivity rate for Dodge County has now reached High (Red), which CMS determines as more than 10% of all test results being positive.  Dodge County current positivity rate has now reached 12.8% as of CMS’s most recent numbers provided on 10/21 for data obtained for the week of 10/14.

What does this mean?  The Facility is now changing to testing all staff members twice weekly to be in compliance with CMS and DHS.  Also, we are not eligible at this time to conduct any indoor visitation except for compassionate care situations.  We have finalized all policies and have received additional equipment to implement these visits once we are able to do so.  At present, per CMS guidance we will be able to start to schedule these visits only once the Dodge County positivity rate falls below 10% and stays below for a period of 14 days.

Visitation:  We will continue with outdoor visits only at this time. Please dress accordingly and plan for the weather. All currently scheduled outdoor visits will remain the same at this time.  In November, the days visitation will be available will be slightly different. The new signup dates for November will be posted soon. With the plexiglass shield now in place, our residents are staying warm in the visitation room. Please call if you need assistance with signing up for a visitation time: 920-269-4386.

All visitors need to have a COVID screening done within 24 hours of the visitation time. Visitors will continue to receive an email prior to their visit. In such cases where visitors are not able to respond via email, please call the facility directly and complete 24hr screening with a staff member.  If a response is not received, the visitation will need to be cancelled. Your loved ones are our number one priority and they love to see you!! Please help support these visits with completing the screening within 24hr prior to the visit. Calls will no longer be placed for screening responses not received.  Hope will also continue to restrict visitations for 14 days for those residents/tenants that are on COVID observation isolation (new admissions, symptomatic or those with appointments off campus). Please call Hope Health 920-269-4386 or Hope Senior 920-269-7667 if there is a question on your loved one’s ability to have visitation.

With the colder weather coming and understanding that not all family and friends will be able to sit outdoors for a visit, we highly encourage interactions with your loved one through phone, Zoom and Skype. Please reach out to the facilities, Hope Health at 920-269-4386 and Hope Senior at 920-269-7667 to set up a time for a video chat.

We also continue to accept deliveries of packages from USPS, UPS and FedEx. Our residents/tenants have enjoyed receiving comfort items delivered right to the facility. Our Amazon wish list is still available if you would like to contribute a treat for our residents or hard-working team. Thanks to all that continue to gift our residents and staff with your generosity! https://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/wishlist/VMHVF5QISFK6/ref=cm_wl_huc_title

Joshua Butler 
Assistant Administrator

Dear Resident/Tenant and Family and Friends of Hope Health and Rehab / Hope Senior Living,

Hope Health / Hope Senior is holding strong with no positive cases of COVID-19 for any residents or tenants since the beginning of the pandemic. We are very proud of our team and thankful to our residents/tenants and their visitors for all their efforts to prevent transmission to those we care for. Additionally, all staff testing conducted last week returned with negative results. We continue weekly testing of staff based off of Dodge County’s COVID-19 positivity rate.  Please see the table for our current confirmed case breakdown:

Hope continues to stay in close communication with local and state health officials to ensure we are taking all the appropriate steps under current circumstances. Our Infection Prevention team at Hope continues to review guidance to ensure we are putting procedures in place to keep our residents, tenants and staff safe.

Team members with direct contact with residents/tenants continue to wear disinfected scrubs/cloth gowns along with masks and eye protection. For any resident/tenant on COVID observation, team members additionally wear an N95 or K95 mask.

We have been receiving many questions on how family and friends will be able to see their loved ones during the colder months. CDC and CMS guidance continues to set limits on the allowance of visitors in the building. We are able to allow “essential visitors” as deemed necessary for the psycho-social wellbeing of those we care for. Our infection prevention team worked on finalizing procedures this week for the phasing in of visitors in the building. In order to be fair to all families while still limiting community exposure, we have decided to allow each resident/tenant to designate one “essential visitor” to come for visits in the building. Our team has started to speak with the residents/tenants and their representatives this week on choosing their “essential visitor”.  These visits are anticipated to start at the beginning of November. These “essential visitors” will be sent a separate online Signup to reserve their visitation time. Other family and friends that are not designated as the “essential visitor” will still be able to use the Hope SignUp at https://signup.com/go/nsgJOQE for an outdoor visit as long as the weather allows. With the plexiglass shield now in place, our residents are staying warm in the visitation room; visitors should plan to dress for the cooler weather as you will be still outside during the visit. Please call if you need assistance with signing up for a visitation time: 920-269-4386.

All visitors need to have a COVID screening done within 24 hours of the visitation time. Visitors will continue to receive a call or email prior to their visit. If a response is not received, the visitation will need to be cancelled. Hope will also continue to restrict visitations for 14 days for those residents/tenants that are on COVID observation isolation (new admissions, symptomatic or those with appointments off campus). Please call Hope Health 920-269-4386 or Hope Senior 920-269-7667 if there is a question on your loved one’s ability to have visitation.

Please note that the allowance of visitation will be determined by the community positivity status. Should Dodge County reach crisis level, Hope will only allow visitation for compassionate care reasons such as for end of life.

With the colder weather coming and understanding that not all family and friends will be able to sit outdoors for a visit, we highly encourage interactions with your loved one through phone, Zoom and Skype. Please reach out to the facilities, Hope Health at 920-269-4386 and Hope Senior at 920-269-7667 to set up a time for a video chat.

We are allowing deliveries to be received from Heartfelt Flowers and Gifts (920-269-1277) and The Village Flower Shoppe (920-387-4540) any day of the week. These deliveries must come directly from these businesses (as opposed to family picking up and dropping off) as we have processes in place for safe receipt and delivery to your loved ones.  Please consider sending your loved one flowers to brighten their day!

We also continue to accept deliveries of packages from USPS, UPS and FedEx. Our residents/tenants have enjoyed receiving comfort items delivered right to the facility. Our Amazon wish list is still available if you would like to contribute a treat for our residents or hard-working team. Thanks to all that continue to gift our residents and staff with your generosity! https://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/wishlist/VMHVF5QISFK6/ref=cm_wl_huc_title.

Thank you for doing your part to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in our communities. As always, we will continue to do our part to keep your loved ones safe.

Julia Schramek RN, LNHA
Administrator

Dear Resident/Tenant and Family and Friends of Hope Health and Rehab / Hope Senior Living,

Hope Health / Hope Senior remains with no current positive cases of COVID-19 in staff, residents or tenants. Additionally, there are no clusters of 3 or more staff, residents or tenants exhibiting symptoms at this time. All results from last week’s required testing for staff came back with negative results.

Please see the table for our current confirmed case breakdown:

Hope continues to stay in close communication with local and state health officials to ensure we are taking all the appropriate steps under current circumstances. Our Infection Prevention team at Hope continues to review guidance to ensure we are putting procedures in place to keep our residents, tenants and staff safe.

We plan to continue our outdoor visitation through October. We have planned to keep our residents/tenants comfortable with additional heating and a plexiglass shield added to the current visitation area. Visitors should plan to dress for the cooler weather. October visitation times are available on SignUp at https://signup.com/go/nsgJOQE. Please call if you need assistance with signing up for a visitation time: 920-269-4386.

All visitors need to have a COVID screening done within 24 hours of the visitation time. Visitors will continue to receive a call or email prior to their visit. If a response is not received, the visitation will need to be cancelled. Hope will also continue to restrict visitations for 14 days for those residents/tenants that are on COVID observation isolation (new admissions, symptomatic or those with appointments off campus). Please call Hope Health 920-269-4386 or Hope Senior 920-269-7667 if there is a question on your loved one’s ability to have visitation.

During scheduled visitation, family and friends are welcome to drop off 1 grocery size bag of items (snacks, magazines, toiletries) and our team will disinfect the items prior to giving to your loved one. We continue to accept deliveries of packages from USPS, UPS and FedEx. Our wish list is still available if you would like to send a care package to our residents/tenants or team. https://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/wishlist/VMHVF5QISFK6/ref=cm_wl_huc_title

Our team is here to support our residents, tenants, their families and friends and will continue to find ways to help you have meaningful interactions with your loved one through phone, Zoom and Skype. Please reach out to the facilities, Hope Health at 920-269-4386 and Hope Senior at 920-269-7667 to set up a time for a video chat.

Our infection prevention team continues to working on the planning, policies, and procedures involved with safely hosting the resident’s/tenant’s designated essential visitor at both Hope Health and Hope Senior. Plexiglass partitions are being constructed to facilitate these visits safely. Our team will be speaking with residents/tenants and their representatives next week to designate the essential visitor for indoor visits.

Our residents and team are pleased to have begun socially distanced, small group activities and communal dining this week. In order to keep COVID transmission precautions, dining and activities are limited to 4 per meal/activity with 1 person per table and is on a scheduled rotation to ensure all residents and tenants have the opportunity to participate.

Thank you for doing your part to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in our communities. As always, we will continue to do our part to keep your loved ones safe. As always, we will continue to do our part to keep your loved ones safe.

Julia Schramek RN, LNHA
Administrator

Dear Resident/Tenant and Family and Friends of Hope Health and Rehab / Hope Senior Living,

Hope Health / Hope Senior remains with no current positive cases of COVID-19 in staff, residents or tenants and as of last Saturday, is off of outbreak status! We have no clusters of 3 or more staff, residents or tenants exhibiting symptoms at this time. All results from last week’s required testing came back negative.

Please see the table for our current confirmed case breakdown:

Hope continues to stay in close communication with local and state health officials to ensure we are taking all the appropriate steps under current circumstances. Our Infection Prevention team at Hope continues to review guidance to ensure we are putting procedures in place to keep our residents, tenants and staff safe.

With no longer being on outbreak status, our team members are able to wear surgical masks while in the facility instead of N95s or KN95s. For contact or care with residents/tenants on observation isolation (suspected for COVID-19 due to newly admitted or those that returned from an event or appointment off campus), N95 or KN95 masks are still worn. Team members with direct contact with residents/tenants continue to wear disinfected scrubs/cloth gowns along with eye protection.

We will continue our outdoor visitation through October. We have planned to keep our residents/tenants comfortable with additional heating and a plexiglass shield added to the current visitation area. Visitors should plan to dress for the cooler weather. October visitation times will be posted soon; those on the email update list will receive a notice when times are open for reservation at: https://signup.com/go/nsgJOQE. Please call if you need assistance with signing up for a visitation time: 920-269-4386.

During scheduled visitation, family and friends are welcome to drop off 1 grocery size bag of items (snacks, magazines, toiletries) and our team will disinfect the items prior to giving to your loved one. We continue to accept deliveries of packages from USPS, UPS and FedEx. Our wish list is still available if you would like to send a care package to our residents/tenants or team. https://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/wishlist/VMHVF5QISFK6/ref=cm_wl_huc_title

Our team is here to support our residents, tenants, their families and friends and will continue to find ways to help you have meaningful interactions with your loved one through phone, Zoom and Skype. Please reach out to the facilities, Hope Health at 920-269-4386 and Hope Senior at 920-269-7667 to set up a time for a video chat.

Our infection prevention team at Hope continues to review the new guidance issued by CMS late last week regarding in-facility visitation and is working on the planning, policies, and procedures involved with safely facilitating the resident’s/tenant’s designated essential visitor at both Hope Health and Hope Senior.

Our beautician, Donna returned last week and has started providing salon services to our residents and tenants again under strict precautions. We are so excited to have her back! It may take some time for her to catch up on the perms, haircuts, sets, etc. so we appreciate the patience and understanding from our residents/tenants and their families. Please call me at 920-269-4386 if you need to know your loved one’s available funds for salon services.

Hope Health and Hope Senior is also working on policies and procedures for socially distanced, small group activities and communal dining anticipated to start the first of October.

All of these recent changes to promote our resident’s and tenant’s psychosocial wellbeing are dependent not only on our facility’s COVID-19 status but also the county’s positivity rate. We cannot emphasize enough the importance for our team, our residents/tenants and their loved ones and also the community to continue to take measures to stop the transmission of COVID-19. Wear a mask or face covering when out in public, avoid crowds, practice diligent hand hygiene and continue to do your part to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in our communities.

As always, we will continue to do our part to keep your loved ones safe.

Julia Schramek RN, LNHA
Administrator

Dear Resident/Tenant and Family and Friends of Hope Health and Rehab / Hope Senior Living,

Hope Health / Hope Senior currently has no current positive cases of COVID-19 in staff, residents or tenants! Additionally, we have no clusters of 3 or more staff, residents or tenants exhibiting symptoms at this time. All results from last week’s required testing of residents and staff came back negative.

Staff members and residents at Hope Health were tested this week per the new CMS testing requirements. The frequency of testing at Hope is based off of the county’s COVID-19 positivity rate; Dodge County remains at 6.9% which indicates we are to test weekly. Also, under the updated testing guidance, Hope will test both staff and residents every 3-7 days until we are cleared of our outbreak status (14-days free of new positive cases).

If a resident/tenant does test positive, we will direly contact the residents/tenant and their representative(s) of their condition and implement protocols for their care and treatment. We will also send a message to those on our COVID-19 email update list as well as post an announcement on our website and Facebook page. Due to government privacy requirements, we cannot divulge specific information about the individuals who have confirmed or suspected COVID-19, unless they are your family member and you have the necessary permissions to receive such information.

Please see the table for our current confirmed case breakdown:

Hope continues to stay in close communication with local and state health officials to ensure we are taking all the appropriate steps under current circumstances. Our Infection Prevention team at Hope continues to review guidance to ensure we are putting procedures in place to keep our resident, tenants and staff safe.

All team members continue to wear PPE (personal protective equipment) which includes a N95 or KN95 masks for all team members while in the facility. Team members with direct contact with residents/tenants additionally wear disinfected scrubs/cloth gowns along with eye protection. We are grateful to the families that have donated gowns, gloves, masks, disinfectant and hand sanitizer to help support our efforts at preventing the transmission of COVID-19 throughout our building.

We are planning to continue our outdoor visitation and our infection team is working on a plan for visits as the weather gets colder. We will send an update via email and post on our Facebook page when plans have been approved and finalized. Visits can be reserved at: https://signup.com/go/nsgJOQE. October visitation times will be posted soon. Please call if you need assistance with signing up for a visitation time: 920-269-4386. Additional guidance has just come out this week regarding in-facility visitation. Our team is reviewing the guidance and will consult with our Medical Director on how and when this can be safely done at Hope.

Before each scheduled visit, a pre-screening needs to be conducted within 24 hours in addition to the screening done at arrival for your visit. If this pre-screening is not done, the visitation will be cancelled. You may receive this pre-screening by phone call or email. We also need to know if any additional visitors will be joining for the scheduled visit as we will need to pre-screen those visitors as well.

During scheduled visitation, family and friends are welcome to drop off 1 grocery size bag of items (snacks, magazines, toiletries) and our team will disinfect the items prior to giving to your loved one. We continue to accept deliveries of packages from USPS, UPS and FedEx.

Hope Health and Hope Senior also continue to pick up flowers/gifts for our residents/tenants every Thursday from Heartfelt Flowers and Gifts (920-269-1277) and The Village Flower Shoppe (920-387-4540). Orders for The Village Flower Shoppe will be picked up at Piggly Wiggly in Lomira. Flowers/gifts are picked up at 4pm so please plan your orders accordingly.

Our team is here to support our residents, tenants, their families and friends and will continue to find ways to help you have meaningful interactions with your loved one through phone, Zoom and Skype. Please reach out to the facilities, Hope Health at 920-269-4386 and Hope Senior at 920-269-7667 to set up a time for a video chat.

Thank you for doing your part to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in our communities. As always, we will continue to do our part to keep your loved ones safe.

Julia Schramek RN, LNHA
Administrator

Dear Resident/Tenant and Family and Friends of Hope Health and Rehab / Hope Senior Living,

Hope Health / Hope Senior currently has one (1) staff member on quarantine at home that is positive for COVID-19. This staff member had been one of the cluster of 3 or more staff members reported last week to be exhibiting symptoms of COVID-19. The other team member’s symptoms have resolved and COVID test returned negative. The positive staff member will not return to work until cleared by Hope’s infection prevention team and the Dodge County Department of Health. We have no clusters of 3 or more staff, residents or tenants exhibiting symptoms at this time.

As noted in the update last week, CMS issued an interim rule that requires nursing homes to routinely test staff for COVID-19 which became effective on September 2^nd. The frequency of testing is based off of the county’s COVID-19 positivity rate. Currently, Dodge County is at 6.9% which indicates we are to test staff members weekly. We have received testing supplies again and tested all staff members along with Hope Health residents this last Wednesday. Under the updated testing guidance, Hope will test staff and residents every 3-7 days until we are cleared of our outbreak status (14-days free of new positive cases).

Please see the table for our confirmed case breakdown:

Hope continues to stay in close communication with local and state health officials to ensure we are taking all the appropriate steps under current circumstances. We are also following guidance from the CDC and CMS to reduce the spread and impact of COVID-19 such as:

• Follow up testing encouraged for all residents/tenants after a confirmed case
• Enhanced infection control precautions
• Screening residents, staff, and essential visitors for expanded list of symptoms
• Restricting visitation and entry of people to the building
• Testing staff and residents for COVID-19 based on current protocols and availability
• Postponing communal activities
• Creating a separate unit for our COVID-19 positive residents
• Plans to install a sealed barrier to further promote infection control
• Utilizing disposable products when possible for our COVID-19 positive residents
• Staff utilizing N95 masks when caring for COVID-19 positive residents and when there is a positive case confirmed in a staff member
• Face coverings required for all visitors when on Hope grounds.

All team members continue to wear PPE (personal protective equipment) which includes a N95 or KN95 masks for all team members while in the facility. Team members with direct contact with residents/tenants additionally wear disinfected scrubs/cloth gowns along with eye protection. We are grateful to the families that have donated gowns, gloves, masks, disinfectant and hand sanitizer to help support our efforts at preventing the transmission of COVID-19 throughout our building.

Scheduled visitation will still be able to continue for the time being. Hope will be required to cancel all visitation if a resident/tenants tests positive for COVID-19. Visits can be reserved at: https://signup.com/go/nsgJOQE.  We will reach out to each visitor prior to the visitation to conduct a symptom pre-screening as well as a screening at arrival to our facility. Please call if you need assistance with signing up for a visitation time: 920-269-4386.

Family and friends will be allowed to drop off 1 grocery size bag of items (snacks, magazines, toiletries) during the scheduled visit and our team will disinfect the items prior to giving to your loved one. We continue to accept deliveries of packages from USPS, UPS and FedEx. We also continue to pick up flowers/gifts for our residents/tenants from Heartfelt Flowers and Gifts (920-269-1277) and The Village Flower Shoppe (920-387-4540). Orders for The Village Flower Shoppe will be picked up at Piggly Wiggly in Lomira. Flowers/gifts are picked up every Thursday at 4pm so please plan your orders accordingly.

Our team is here to support our residents, tenants, their families and friends and will continue to find ways to help you have meaningful interactions with your loved one through phone, Zoom and Skype. Please reach out to the facilities, Hope Health at 920-269-4386 and Hope Senior at 920-269-7667 to set up a time for a video chat.

Thank you for doing your part to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in our communities. As always, we will continue to do our part to keep your loved ones safe.

Julia Schramek RN, LNHA
Administrator

Dear Resident/Tenant and Family and Friends of Hope Health and Rehab / Hope Senior Living,

As reported with our update last week, a newly confirmed case of COVID-19 in a staff member placed Hope Health and Hope Senior back on COVID positive status and prompted the testing of Hope Health residents. All resident tests came back negative. However, one additional staff member that had already been on quarantine at home tested positive late last week. Additionally, there is one cluster of 3 or more staff members exhibiting symptoms. All COVID positive staff members and those exhibiting symptoms will remain on quarantine at home and will not return to work until cleared by our infection team at Hope and by Dodge County Public Health. Hope continues to stay in close communication with local and state health officials to ensure we are taking all the appropriate steps under current circumstances.

All positive COVID cases in staff members at Hope thus far had been traced to contacts in the community. No cases have been found to be due to transmission between co-workers.

No residents or tenants have tested positive for COVID-19 at Hope Health or Hope Senior since the start of the pandemic. Our current testing guideline for residents is: when there is a newly diagnosed case in a staff member or resident/tenant when the facility has been COVID free for 14 days or when a resident/tenant is exhibiting signs symptoms of COVID-19 and other possible diagnoses have been ruled out. 

Please see the table for our confirmed case breakdown:

Last week, CMS issued an interim rule that requires nursing homes to routinely test staff for COVID-19 effective September 2^nd. The frequency of testing is based off of the county’s COVID-19 positivity rate. Currently, Dodge County is at 5% which indicates we must test our staff members 1x per week. We have been able to order testing supplies again and Hope will resume mandatory testing of all staff members next week.

All team members continue to wear N95 or KN95 masks while in the facility and continue to wear disinfected scrubs/cloth gowns along with eye protection when in direct contact with residents or tenants. N95 masks, KN95 masks, latex gloves, disposable gowns and Lysol or Clorox Spray remain especially challenging for us to obtain. This PPE (personal protective equipment) and disinfecting equipment is essential for us to provide safe care to those we serve and to protect our team. Please reach out to us at 920-269-4386 if you are able to help provide any of these items. We are so very grateful to the families that have donated these items and made calls on our behalf to help support our efforts at preventing the transmission of COVID-19 throughout our building.

Scheduled visitation will still be able to continue for the time being.  Visits can be scheduled at: https://signup.com/go/nsgJOQE.  We will reach out to each visitor prior to the visitation to conduct a symptom pre-screening as well as a screening at arrival to our facility. Please call if you need assistance with signing up for a visitation time: 920-269-4386. Family and friends will be allowed to drop off 1 grocery size bag of items (snacks, magazines, toiletries) during the scheduled visit and our team will disinfect the items prior to giving to your loved one. We continue to accept deliveries of packages from USPS, UPS and FedEx. Our residents/tenants have enjoyed receiving comfort items delivered right to the facility.

Face coverings/masks are required when on our facility grounds whether it be for the outdoor scheduled visits or entrance into the facility for compassionate care end of life visitation. Please, pass this information along to other family members that may not receive these updates.

We have received recent guidance from the Division of Quality Assurance for On-Site Hair Salon and Barber services and are working to get those amenities back for our residents and tenants soon!

Our team is here to support our residents, tenants, their families and friends and will continue to find ways to help you have meaningful interactions with your loved one through phone, Zoom and Skype. Please reach out to the facilities, Hope Health at 920-269-4386 and Hope Senior at 920-269-7667 to set up a time for a video chat.

Thank you for doing your part to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in our communities. Please take extra precautions this Labor Day weekend with travel and gatherings. As always, we will continue to do our part to keep your loved ones safe.

Julia Schramek RN, LNHA
Administrator

Dear Resident/Tenant and Family and Friends of Hope Health and Rehab / Hope Senior Living,

We have learned today that a member of our team that had been on self-quarantine at home has tested positive for COVID-19. This team member been out of our facility since Sunday and will not be allowed to return to work until cleared by the Dodge County Health Department. With news of this positive test result, all residents at Hope Health have been swabbed for testing today.

Please see the table for our confirmed case breakdown:

Hope is staying in very close communication with local and state health officials to ensure we are taking all the appropriate steps under current circumstances. We are also following guidance from the CDC and CMS to reduce the spread and impact of COVID-19, such as:

• Enhanced infection control precautions
• Screening residents, staff, and essential visitors for expanded list of symptoms
• Restricting visitation and entry of people to the building
• Testing staff and residents for COVID-19 based on current protocols and availability
• Postponing communal activities
• Creating a separate unit for our COVID-19 positive residents
• Plans to install a sealed barrier to further promote infection control
• Dropping off necessary items for the designated unit via minimal contact strategies
• Utilizing disposable products when possible for our COVID-19 positive or suspected residents

All team members are back to wearing N95 or KN95 masks while in the facility and continue to wear disinfected scrubs/cloth gowns along with eye protection when in direct contact with residents or tenants.

Staff were unable to receive testing this week as our facility has been limited on the number of testing supplies available. Our infection team had decided to prioritize our limited supplies for the testing of residents/tenants should a positive case be reported or suspected or if there is a newly reported positive staff member, such as the case today.

N95 masks, KN95 masks, latex gloves, disposable gowns and Lysol or Clorox Spray remain especially challenging for us to obtain. This PPE (personal protective equipment) and disinfecting equipment is essential for us to provide safe care to those we serve and to protect our team. Please reach out to us at 920-269-4386 if you are able to help provide any of these items. We are so very grateful to the families that have donated these items to help support our efforts at preventing the transmission of COVID-19 throughout our building.

Scheduled visitation will still be able to continue for the time being. Should a resident or tenant test positive for COVID-19, we will need to place future visits on hold until Hope returns to COVID negative status. These carefully planned visitation times for our residents and tenants are available at https://signup.com/go/nsgJOQE.  We will reach out to each visitor prior to the visitation to conduct a symptom pre-screening as well as a screening at arrival to our facility. All visitors will be required to wear a face covering and please do not visit if you are ill. Residents or tenants on COVID-19 precautionary observation will not be able to have visitors. Please call to inquire about your loved one’s ability to have visitors or to have a team member assist you with signing up for a visitation time: 920-269-4386.

Starting in September, family members will be able to drop off items (snacks, magazines, toiletries) for our residents and tenants during the scheduled visitation times. Please limit the number of items to 1 bag in order to allow our team time to properly disinfect prior to giving to your loved one. We continue to accept deliveries of packages from USPS, UPS and FedEx. Our residents/tenants have enjoyed receiving comfort items delivered right to the facility.

We are here to support our residents, tenants, their families and friends and will continue to find ways to help you have meaningful interactions with your loved one through phone, Zoom and Skype. Our team members are happy to assist with these calls. Please reach out to the facilities, Hope Health at 920-269-4386 and Hope Senior at 920-269-7667 to set up a time for the video chats.

Thank you for doing your part to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in our communities. As always, we will continue to do our part to keep your loved ones safe.

Julia Schramek RN, LNHA
Administrator

Dear Resident/Tenant and Family and Friends of Hope Health and Rehab / Hope Senior Living,

We remain COVID-19 free for residents/tenants and staff at Hope Health and Hope Senior. There are no clusters of 3 or more residents/tenants or staff with respiratory symptoms at our facilities at this time.

Please see the table for our confirmed case breakdown:

Team members wear surgical masks when in our facility and disinfected scrubs/cloth gowns along with eye protection when in direct contact with residents or tenants. The team continues to wear N95 or KN95 masks for any contact with residents/tenants on observation isolation (newly admitted residents/tenants or those that returned from an event or appointment off campus). Staff will continue to get tested every other week as long as we can receive the testing kits.

N95 masks, KN95 masks, latex gloves, disposable gowns and Lysol or Clorox Spray are especially challenging for us to obtain. This PPE (personal protective equipment) and disinfecting equipment is essential for us to provide safe care to those we serve and to protect our team. Please reach out to us at 920-269-4386 if you are able to help provide any of these items.

We know you are missing your loved ones, but it is crucial that we continue to limit visitation to reduce the spread of this virus to others. Carefully planned visitation times for our residents and tenants are available on https://signup.com/go/nsgJOQE.  All visitors will be required to wear a face covering. Please do not visit if you are ill. We need to limit visitation sign ups to 2 per month for each visitor so we can ensure all family member have a fair opportunity see their loved ones. Residents or tenants on COVID-19 precautionary observation will not be able to have visitors. Please call to inquire about your loved one’s ability to have visitors or to have a team member assist you with signing up for a visitation time: 920-269-4386.

Starting in September, family members will be able to drop off items (snacks, magazines, toiletries) for our residents and tenants during the scheduled visitation times. Please limit the number of items to 1 bag in order to allow our team time to properly disinfect prior to giving to your loved one. We continue to accept deliveries of packages from USPS, UPS and FedEx. Our residents/tenants have enjoyed receiving comfort items delivered right to the facility.

We are here to support our residents, tenants, their families and friends and will continue to find ways to help you have meaningful interactions with your loved one through phone, Zoom and Skype. Our team members are happy to assist with these calls. Please reach out to the facilities, Hope Health at 920-269-4386 and Hope Senior at 920-269-7667 to set up a time for the video chats.

Our Amazon wish list is still available if you would like to contribute a treat for our residents or hard-working team. Thanks to all that continue to gift our residents and staff with your generosity! https://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/wishlist/VMHVF5QISFK6/ref=cm_wl_huc_title.

Thank you for doing your part to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in our communities. As always, we will continue to do our part to keep your loved ones safe.

Julia Schramek RN, LNHA
Administrator

Dear Resident/Tenant and Family and Friends of Hope Health and Rehab / Hope Senior Living,

We are pleased to report that we remain COVID free for residents/tenants and staff at Hope Health and Hope Senior. There are no clusters of 3 or more residents/tenants or staff with respiratory symptoms at our facilities at this time.

Please see the table for our confirmed case breakdown:

Being COVID- 19 free, our staff was relieved to be able to switch back to using surgical masks when in our facility. All team members continue to wear disinfected scrubs/cloth gowns and eye protection when in direct contact with all residents or tenants. We continue to wear N95 or N95 masks for any contact with residents/tenants on observation isolation (newly admitted residents/tenants or those that returned from an appointment off campus).

N95 masks, KN95 masks, latex gloves and disposable gowns and now Lysol or Clorox Spray are challenging for us to obtain. This PPE (personal protective equipment) and disinfecting equipment is essential for us to provide safe care to those we serve and to protect our team. Please reach out to us at 920-269-4386 if you are able to help provide any of these items.

Our residents and tenants have been delighted with the recent family visits. Visitation times are available on Hope’s Signup.com events page under Hope Health and Hope Senior Visit: https://signup.com/go/nsgJOQE. Reminder that visitations are planned with strict COVID-19 precautions, so please be sure to wear a face covering and do not visit if you are ill. September visitation times will be posted on our Signup page on August 15^th. We will need to start limiting the sign ups to 2 per month for each visitor in order to ensure all family member have a fair opportunity to sign up to see their loved ones. Please call and speak with one of our team members at Hope if you need assistance with signing up for a visitation time: 920-269-4386.

We continue to support ways to help you have meaningful interactions with your loved one through phone calls, Zoom and Skype. Our team members are happy to assist with these calls. Please reach out to the facilities, Hope Health at 920-269-4386 and Hope Senior at 920-269-7667 to set up a time for video chats.

Hope Health and Hope Senior continue to team with Heartfelt Flowers and Gifts (920-269-1277) and The Village Flower Shoppe (920-387-4540) for special gifts and flowers for your loved ones. Our team has arranged to pick up these items weekly to deliver safely at Hope. Orders for The Village Flower Shoppe will be picked up at Piggly Wiggly in Lomira. Flowers/gifts are picked up every Thursday at 4pm so please plan your orders accordingly.

We are hoping to plan another Drive By and Wave Event soon! Stay posted for more information in the next few weeks.

Thank you for doing your part to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in our communities. As always, we will continue to do our part to keep your loved ones safe.

Julia Schramek RN, LNHA
Administrator

Dear Resident/Tenant and Family and Friends of Hope Health and Rehab / Hope Senior Living,

We are happy to report that we currently are COVID free for residents/tenants and staff at Hope Health and Hope Senior. Additionally, there are no clusters of 3 or more residents/tenants or staff with respiratory symptoms at our facilities at this time.

Please see the table for our confirmed case breakdown:

Hope remains in close communication with local and state health officials to ensure we are taking all the appropriate steps under current circumstances. We are also following guidance from the CDC and CMS to reduce the spread and impact of COVID-19 such as:

• Follow up testing encouraged for all residents/tenants after a confirmed case
• Enhanced infection control precautions
• Screening residents, staff, and essential visitors for expanded list of symptoms
• Restricting visitation and entry of people to the building
• Testing staff and residents for COVID-19 based on current protocols and availability
• Postponing communal activities
• Creating a separate unit for our COVID-19 positive residents
• Plans to install a sealed barrier to further promote infection control
• Dropping off necessary items for the designated unit via contactless strategies
• Utilizing disposable products when possible for our COVID-19 positive residents
• Staff utilizing N95 masks when caring for COVID-19 positive residents and when there is a positive case confirmed in a staff member
• Any staff member with prolonged exposure of a COVID positive person out in the community is placed on quarantine at home and not able to return to work for 14 days.

All team members continue to wear N95 masks along with gowns/disinfected scrubs and eye protection when in contact with our residents and tenants. N95 masks, KN95 masks, latex gloves and disposable gowns continue to be a challenge for us to obtain. This PPE (personal protective equipment) is essential for us to provide safe care to those we serve and to protect our team. Please reach out to us at 920-269-4386 if you are able to help provide any of these items.

Our visits between residents/tenants and their families have been very successful. These visits are carefully planned with strict COVID precautions in place. Visitation times are available on Hope’s Signup.com events page under Hope Health and Hope Senior Visit: https://signup.com/go/nsgJOQE. Please call and speak with one of our team members at Hope if you need assistance with signing up for a visitation time: vc920-269-4386. There are several slots remaining yet for visits this month. September visitation times will be posted on our Signup page on August 15th.

We continue to support ways to help you have meaningful interactions with your loved one through phone calls, Zoom and Skype. Our team members are happy to assist with these calls. Please reach out to the facilities, Hope Health at 920-269-4386 and Hope Senior at 920-269-7667 to set up a time for video chats.

Hope Health and Hope Senior continue to team with Heartfelt Flowers and Gifts (920-269-1277) and The Village Flower Shoppe (920-387-4540) for special gifts and flowers for your loved ones. Our team has arranged to pick up these items weekly to deliver safely at Hope. Orders for The Village Flower Shoppe will be picked up at Piggly Wiggly in Lomira. Flowers/gifts are picked up every Thursday at 4pm so please plan your orders accordingly.

Thank you for doing your part to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in our communities. As always, we will continue to do our part to keep your loved ones safe.

Julia Schramek RN, LNHA
Administrator

Dear Resident/Tenant and Family and Friends of Hope Health and Rehab / Hope Senior Living,

We are pleased to announce that there are no current confirmed positive cases of COVID-19 at Hope Health and Hope Senior! Likewise, there are no clusters of 3 or more residents/tenants or staff with respiratory symptoms at our facilities at this time.

Please see the table for our confirmed case breakdown:

Hope remains in close communication with local and state health officials to ensure we are taking all the appropriate steps under current circumstances. We are also following guidance from the CDC and CMS to reduce the spread and impact of COVID-19.

All team members continue to wear N95 masks along with gowns/disinfected scrubs and eye protection when in contact with our residents and tenants. N95 masks, KN95 masks, latex gloves and disposable gowns continue to be a challenge for us to obtain. This PPE (personal protective equipment) is essential for us to provide safe care to those we serve and to protect our team. Please reach out to us at 920-269-4386 if you are able to help provide any of these items.

We were excited to start visitation again for our family and friends this week. These visits are carefully planned with strict COVID precautions in place. Our original plan for visits occurring through a designated window with communication through a speaker device unfortunately didn’t go as smoothly as planned. We sincerely apologize to those first few visitors that had trouble speaking with their loved one. We have since decided to move forward with socially distanced, face to face visits. Visitation times are available on Hope’s Signup.com events page under Hope Health and Hope Senior Visit: https://signup.com/go/nsgJOQE. Please call and speak with one of our team members at Hope if you need assistance with signing up for a visitation time: 920-269-4386.

Our next scheduled Drive By Drop Off Event for difficult to ship gifts/items planned for August 9^th. You can find more details on our Signup.com events page. Please note that we continue to accept items for our residents and tenants through USPS, UPS and FedEx deliveries and have processes in place to properly disinfect all items received.

Please join us for our annual Brat/Burger Fry coming up August 6^th, 7^th and 8^th from 10am-6pm. We will be holding it be drive-thru style in our parking lot behind Hope Health. Please help spread the word as this event is our largest fundraiser for our Activity Fund at Hope Health and Hope Senior.

We continue to support ways to help you have meaningful interactions with your loved one through phone, Zoom and Skype. Our team members are happy to assist with these calls. Please reach out to the facilities, Hope Health at 920-269-4386 and Hope Senior at 920-269-7667 to set up a time for video chats.

Hope Health and Hope Senior continue to team with Heartfelt Flowers and Gifts (920-269-1277) and The Village Flower Shoppe (920-387-4540) for special gifts and flowers for your loved ones. Our team has arranged to pick up these items weekly to deliver safely at Hope. Orders for The Village Flower Shoppe will be picked up at Piggly Wiggly in Lomira. Flowers/gifts are picked up every Thursday at 4pm so please plan your orders accordingly.

Thank you for doing your part to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in our communities. As always, we will continue to do our part to keep your loved ones safe.

Julia Schramek RN, LNH
Administrator

Dear Resident/Tenant and Family and Friends of Hope Health and Rehab / Hope Senior Living,

Hope Health and Hope Senior continue to takes strides to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in our facilities. While there have been several cases of staff members testing positive since the start of the pandemic, we have had no cases of COVID-19 in any of our residents or tenants here at Hope. At this time, no residents/tenants are showing signs of COVID-19.

Since our update on July 20^th, one of the two COVID-19 confirmed staff members has been cleared by Dodge County Public Health to return to work and one remains on self-quarantine at home. There are no clusters of 3 or more residents/tenants or staff with respiratory symptoms at our facilities at this time.

Please see the table for our current confirmed case breakdown:

Hope remains in very close communication with local and state health officials to ensure we are taking all the appropriate steps under current circumstances. We are also following guidance from the CDC and CMS to reduce the spread and impact of COVID-19.

All team members continue to wear N95 masks along with gowns/disinfected scrubs and eye protection when in contact with our residents and tenants. N95 masks, KN95 masks, latex gloves and disposable gowns continue to be a challenge for us to obtain. This PPE (personal protective equipment) is essential for us to provide safe care to those we serve and to protect our team. Please reach out to us at 920-269-4386 if you are able to help provide any of these items.

Hope Health and Hope Senior are thrilled to announce the start of in-person visits for our residents and tenants! These visits will be planned with COVID prevention in mind and with strict precautions in place. Visitation times are available on Hope’s Signup.com events page under Hope Health and Hope Senior Visit: https://signup.com/go/nsgJOQE. Please call and speak with one of our team members at Hope if you need assistance with signing up for a visitation time: 920-269-4396.

All other visits as well as item drop offs continue to be restricted in order to reduce the spread of COVID-19 to our residents, tenants and team. We have our next scheduled Drive By Drop Off Event for difficult to ship gifts/items planned for August 9^th. You can find more details on our Signup.com events page. Please note that we continue to accept items for our residents and tenants through USPS, UPS and FedEx deliveries and have processes in place to properly disinfect all items received.

We continue to support ways to help you have meaningful interactions with your loved one through phone, Zoom and Skype. Our team members are happy to assist with these calls. Please reach out to the facilities, Hope Health at 920-269-4386 and Hope Senior at 920-269-7667 to set up a time for these face to face video chats.

Hope Health and Hope Senior continue to team with Heartfelt Flowers and Gifts (920-269-1277) and The Village Flower Shoppe (920-387-4540) for special gifts and flowers for your loved ones. Our team has arranged to pick up these items weekly to deliver safely at Hope. Orders for The Village Flower Shoppe will be picked up at Piggly Wiggly in Lomira. Flowers/gifts are picked up every Thursday at 4pm so please plan your orders accordingly.

Thank you again to all that participated in our Drive By Parade and Brat Fry last week! It was such a success that we have decided to go ahead with our annual Brat/Burger Fry coming up August 6^th – 8^th from 10am-6pm. Like our Brat Fry last week, it will be drive-thru style in our parking lot behind Hope Health but with the addition of burgers, cheese burgers and hot dogs along with the brats. Please help spread the word as this event is our largest fundraiser for our Activity Fund at Hope Health and Hope Senior.

Thank you for doing your part to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in our communities. As always, we will continue to do our part to keep your loved ones safe.

Julia Schramek RN, LNHA
Administrator

Dear Resident/Tenant and Family and Friends of Hope Health and Rehab / Hope Senior Living,

Our mandatory staff testing last week resulted in 1 staff member testing positive. This staff member was not showing any signs of COVID and is on self-quarantine at home until cleared by Dodge County Public Health. 

With the positive case, all residents of Hope Health were tested this morning. Results should be received by the end of this week. No residents or tenants are showing signs of COVID-19 at this time.

Please see the table for our current confirmed case breakdown:

Again, with contract tracing conducted, we feel that COVID-19 is not spreading throughout our building and that staff are contracting the virus through contacts out in the community. We continue to take extra measures in our facility: all staff wearing N95 masks, direct care staff wearing gowns or disinfected scrubs and face protection, practicing strict hand hygiene, maintaining social distancing on the floor and when on breaks and thorough disinfecting of all equipment. 

We also urge our staff, family members and friends to wear a mask when out in the community, practice social distancing, avoid crowds and practice hand hygiene often.

Thank you for doing your part to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in our communities. As always, we will continue to do our part to keep your loved ones safe.

Julia Schramek RN, LNHA
Administrator

Dear Resident/Tenant and Family and Friends of Hope Health and Rehab / Hope Senior Living,

As reported in our update on July 6th, with mandatory staff testing conducted July 1st, 1 staff member tested positive for COVID-19. We learned yesterday that an additional staff member that had been on self-quarantine at home since June 27th tested positive when asked by Hope to obtain community-based testing prior to returning to work. This staff member will remain on self-quarantine until cleared by Dodge County Public Health.

All Hope Senior Living tenants were tested this week. 1 symptomatic resident at Hope Health was also tested. We are still awaiting those results.

Please see the table for our current confirmed case breakdown:

The staff members that have tested positive thus far have not had any prolonged exposure with each other in our facility. With contract tracing conducted, we strongly feel that COVID-19 is not spreading throughout our building but staff are contracting the virus through contacts out in the community. We continue to take extra measures in our facility: all staff wearing N95 masks, direct care staff wearing gowns or disinfected scrubs and face protection, maintaining social distancing on the floor and when on breaks and thorough disinfecting of all equipment.

We had to make the tough decision to hold off on our staff testing this week. With limits placed on the amount of testing kits we can order, staff testing was cancelled to ensure we have enough kits available to use for testing residents and tenants if they develop symptoms of COVID-19. We plan to hold staff testing next week and will continue to evaluate our supply.

Hope remains in very close communication with local and state health officials to ensure we are taking all the appropriate steps under current circumstances.

We continue to closely monitor our PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) usage. We still request donations of disposable gowns and N95 masks. Please reach out to us at 920-269-4386 if you are able to help provide any of these items. We are so grateful to all that have donated these much needed supplies!

Following guidance, Hope Health and Hope Senior continue to restrict visitation including sidewalk and window visits to reduce the spread of COVID to our vulnerable population. We are working out the details for scheduling in-person, safe window visits at a designated location at our facility and are excited to begin these in the next few weeks!

We are here to support our residents, tenants, their families and friends and will continue to find ways to help you have meaningful interactions with your loved one through phone, Zoom and Skype. Our team members are happy to assist with these calls. Please reach out to the facilities, Hope Health at 920-269-4386 and Hope Senior at 920-269-7667 to set up a time for the video chats.

Hope Health and Hope Senior have teamed up with Heartfelt Flowers and Gifts (920-269-1277) and The Village Flower Shoppe (920-387-4540) to arrange staff pickup weekly for your loved ones at Hope. Staff will pick up the items every Thursday at 4pm so please plan your orders accordingly. Orders for The Village Flower Shoppe will be picked up at Piggly Wiggly in Lomira. Our residents and tenants have been so excited to receive these special deliveries.

Please note that we still continue to accept items for our residents and tenants through USPS, UPS and FedEx deliveries and have processes in place to properly disinfect all items received. We continue to restrict any drop off of any items brought to the doors of Hope Health and Hope Senior. We host a monthly Drop Off event for family and friends. Please contact us if you would like information on these events.

Working with our Registered Dietician, we have made the decision to allow donations of fresh fruits and produce from our resident/tenant’s family gardens. Please call our Dietary Manager, Terri Janzer at 920-269-4386 for information on how to safely donate.

Thank you for doing your part to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in our communities. As always, we will continue to do our part to keep your loved ones safe.

Julia Schramek RN, LNHA
Administrator

To Our Residents/Tenants and Family Members:

We want to inform you that at Hope Health and Rehabilitation Center we have one (1) additional staff member with a confirmed case of COVID-19. This case was discovered as a result of our weekly mandatory staff testing; this staff member was not showing any signs of COVID-19 prior to testing.

This staff member has been immediately placed on quarantine at home and will not be allowed to return to work until guidance allows.

Our three previous COVID-19 positive staff members have thankfully, recovered. Please see the table below for our confirmed case breakdown:

Due to government privacy requirements, we cannot divulge specific information about the individuals who have confirmed or suspected COVID-19.

No residents or tenants are suspected at this time however, we will conduct testing on the folks we serve these week because of the new positive case.

The safety and wellbeing of our residents remains our top priority. We continue to do what we can to limit the spread of COVID-19 within Hope Health and Hope Senior. We continue to take measures based on guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to reduce the spread and impact of COVID-19.

Please know that we are adhering to guidelines from the local and state health departments, which continue to evolve as we learn more about this virus. Hope will continue to provide you updates. We know that you may have questions and we encourage you to contact our center.

Sincerely,

Julia Schramek RN, Administrator

To Our Residents/Tenants and Family Members:

We want to inform you that at Hope Health and Rehabilitation Center we have two (2) additional staff members with a confirmed case of COVID-19. These cases were discovered as a result of our weekly mandatory staff testing; they were not showing any signs of COVID-19 prior to testing.

Upon being notified of the staff members’ positive status, Hope has immediately restricted those staff members from working and they are on quarantine at home. These staff members will not be allowed to return to work for at least 14 days and clearance from Dodge County Public Health. The last date either staff worked at Hope was 6/26/2020.

Due to government privacy requirements, we cannot divulge specific information about the individuals who have confirmed or suspected COVID-19, unless they are your family member and you have the necessary permissions to receive such information.

No residents, are suspected at this time.

The safety and wellbeing of our residents is our top priority. We are doing what we can to limit the spread of COVID-19 within Hope Health and Hope Senior, including staying in very close communication with local and state health officials to ensure we are taking all the appropriate steps under current circumstances. We continue to take measures based on guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to reduce the spread and impact of COVID-19.

We need our community’s support in preventing COVID-19 so that we can continue to give great care for your loved ones. Please visit the CDC website (www.cdc.gov/coronavirus) to learn how you can help prevent the spread in our community.

This is a difficult time for everyone. We will continue to provide you with updates. Please know that we are adhering to guidelines from the local and state health departments, which continue to evolve as we learn more about this virus. We know that you may have questions and we encourage you to contact our center. Please call us at 920-269-4386 or visit our website hopehealthandrehab.com for updates.

Sincerely,

Julia Schramek RN, Administrator

Dear Resident/Tenant and Family and Friends of Hope Health and Rehab / Hope Senior Living,

Hope Health received an Infection Focused Survey earlier this week from CMS through the Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS) and the Division of Quality Assurance (DQA). Hope is proud to report that we received no citations during this survey event! We received great feedback from our surveyor on our efforts we are taking to prevent the spread of COVID in our facility.

Results from our latest mandatory staff testing and resident/tenants COVID testing conducted on June 17, 2020 came back this week with and again Hope has no new positive cases. We continue close monitoring and COVID assessments for each resident/tenant. Any resident that shows symptoms will be placed on precautions and tested. All staff continue to get tested weekly and will be placed on self-quarantine at home if showing any COVID symptoms.

With our previous positive staff case, we still remain at 1 Confirmed case until that staff member is cleared by Dodge County Public Health to return to work. That staff member is waiting on follow up testing and is anticipated to return to work soon.

We currently have 0 clusters of three or more staff and/or residents and tenants with new onset of respiratory symptoms within 72 hours of each other. Please see the table for our confirmed case breakdown:

Hope is staying in very close communication with local and state health officials to ensure we are taking all the appropriate steps under current circumstances. We are also following guidance from the CDC and CMS to reduce the spread and impact of COVID-19, such as:

• Follow up testing encouraged for all residents/tenants after a confirmed case
• Enhanced infection control precautions
• Screening residents, staff, and essential visitors for expanded list of symptoms
• Restricting visitation and entry of people to the building
• Testing staff and residents for COVID-19 based on current protocols and availability
• Postponing communal activities
• Creating a separate unit for our COVID-19 positive residents
• Plans to install a sealed barrier to further promote infection control
• Dropping off necessary items for the designated unit via contactless strategies
• Utilizing disposable products when possible for our COVID-19 positive residents
• Staff utilizing N95 masks when caring for COVID-19 positive or suspected residents

Hope continues to closely monitor our PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) usage. We still request donations of disposable gowns and N95 masks. Please reach out to us at 920-269-4386 if you are able to help provide any of these items.

We understand how difficult it is to not be able to see your loved ones, but it is crucial that we continue to restrict visitation to reduce the spread COVID to our vulnerable population. For Hope, this also includes sidewalk and window visits and dropping off of any items. Even during any of our “Drive By” events, we need all family and friends to remain in their vehicles. We have reached out to our DQA Regional Field Office Director regarding allowing visitation at Hope Health and Hope Senior and have been informed that visitation is not yet allowed. Thank you for your continued patience and understanding.

Hope Health and Hope Senior are planning another Drive By Drop Off event on Sunday, July 12^th from 3pm-5pm. This is a designated special drop off opportunity to supply your loved ones with those difficult to ship items (sodas, fridge snacks). This drop off will help minimize community contacts (and potential COVID transmission) while also allowing staff the time to properly disinfect items before they get to the folks we care for.

We’re again using SignUp.com to organize our upcoming Drop Off event. Family and friends can go to: https://signup.com/go/RVksqTV  to sign up for a drop off time. You can also sign up by calling Hope at 920-269-4386 and speaking to one of the office assistants. Once you sign up, we will send you the details on the Drop Off. Sorry, we are not able to accept any items that are dropped off at the door; you can only drop off at the designated area. By signing up, we can plan to assist your resident/tenant out on the porch to see you and wave hello while you drive by after dropping off their items.

Our team members are happy to assist with phone calls and video calls using Zoom or Skype to help you stay connected with your loved one. Please reach out to the facilities, Hope Health at 920-269-4386 and Hope Senior at 920-269-7667 to set up a time for the video chats.

Our Amazon wish list is also still available if you would like to contribute a treat for our residents or hard-working team. We truly appreciate the gifts for our residents and staff! https://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/wishlist/VMHVF5QISFK6/ref=cm_wl_huc_title.

Thank you for doing your part to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in our communities. As always, we will continue to do our part to keep your loved ones safe.

Julia Schramek RN, LNHA
Administrator

Dear Resident/Tenants and Family and Friends of Hope Health and Rehab / Hope Senior Living,

Results from our latest mandatory staff testing and resident/tenants COVID testing conducted on June 10, 2020 came back this week with no positive cases! With this result, no resident/tenant COVID testing was conducted this week. We continue close monitoring and COVID assessments for each resident/tenant and any resident that shows symptoms will be tested. All staff continue to get tested weekly.

With our previous positive staff case, we still remain at 1 Confirmed case until that staff member is cleared by Dodge County Public Health to return to work. That staff member is on the mend and expected to return to Hope soon.

We currently have 0 clusters of three or more staff and/or residents and tenants with new onset of respiratory symptoms within 72 hours of each other. Please see the table for our confirmed case breakdown:

Hope is staying in very close communication with local and state health officials to ensure we are taking all the appropriate steps under current circumstances. We are also following guidance from the CDC and CMS to reduce the spread and impact of COVID-19, such as:

• Follow up testing encouraged for all residents/tenants after a confirmed case
• Enhanced infection control precautions
• Screening residents, staff, and essential visitors for expanded list of symptoms
• Restricting visitation and entry of people to the building
• Testing staff and residents for COVID-19 based on current protocols and availability
• Postponing communal activities
• Creating a separate unit for our COVID-19 positive residents
• Plans to install a sealed barrier to further promote infection control
• Dropping off necessary items for the designated unit via contactless strategies
• Utilizing disposable products when possible for our COVID-19 positive residents
• Staff utilizing N95 masks when caring for COVID-19 positive residents

Hope continues to closely monitor our PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) usage. We still request donations of disposable gowns and N95 masks. Please reach out to us at 920-269-4386 if you are able to help provide any of these items. After our conformed positive case, direct caregivers began using their N95 masks and we have started to utilize the Battelle Decontamination System. This week, we successfully shipped and received back 2 shipments of our N95 masks decontaminated and ready to be reused. You can learn more about Battelle at www.battelle.org.

We know you are missing your loved ones, but it is crucial that we continue to restrict visitation to reduce the spread of this virus to others. For Hope, this includes restricting window visits and dropping off of any items. Even during our “Drive By” events, we need all family and friends to remain in their vehicles. We look forward to visits again in the future and our team continues to work on plans for how visitation might be phased back when the guidance allows.

We are here to support our residents, tenants, their families and friends and will continue to find ways to help you have meaningful interactions with your loved one through phone, Zoom and Skype. Our team members are happy to assist with these calls. Please reach out to the facilities, Hope Health at 920-269-4386 and Hope Senior at 920-269-7667 to set up a time for the video chats.

Please consider sending you loved one some flowers/gifts to help brighten their day. We’ve teamed up with Heartfelt Flowers and Gifts (920-269-1277) and The Village Flower Shoppe (920-387-4540) to arrange staff pickup weekly for your loved ones at Hope. Staff will pick up the items every Thursday at 4pm. Orders for The Village Flower Shoppe will be picked up at Piggly Wiggly in Lomira.

Our Amazon wish list is also still available if you would like to contribute a treat for our residents or hard-working team. We truly appreciate the gifts for our residents and staff! https://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/wishlist/VMHVF5QISFK6/ref=cm_wl_huc_title.

This is a difficult time for everyone. We will continue to provide you with updates and strive for transparency.  Please, contact us with any questions. You can call Hope Health or Hope Senior, email me at jschramek@hopehealthandrehab.com, follow us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/HopeHealthandRehabHopeSeniorLiving/ or visit our website www.hopehealthandrehab.com for updates on the COVID status and our plans to keep our residents, tenants, staff and community safe.

Thank you for doing your part to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in our communities. As always, we will continue to do our part to keep your loved ones safe.

Julia Schramek RN, LNHA
Administrator

Dear Resident/Tenants and Family and Friends of Hope Health and Rehab / Hope Senior Living,

We want to provide you with an update on the situation at Hope regarding the novel coronavirus or COVID-19, including the number confirmed cases as well as efforts we are undertaking. The safety and wellbeing of our residents is our top priority. We are doing what we can to limit the spread of COVID-19 within Hope Health and Hope Senior.

With our mandatory staff testing conducted on June 3, 2020 have had 1 confirmed case of COVID-1. Since then, we have 1 cluster of three or more staff with new onset of respiratory symptoms within 72 hours of each other, including the confirmed case. Any staff members exhibiting symptoms are sent home to self-quarantine. We follow guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), including return to work guidance, for staff who test positive.

Please see the table for our confirmed case breakdown:

If a resident/tenant tests positive, we will contact directly the residents/tenant and their representative(s) of their condition and implement protocols for their care and treatment. We will also send a message to those on our COVID-19 email update list as well as post an announcement on our website and Facebook page. Due to government privacy requirements, we cannot divulge specific information about the individuals who have confirmed or suspected COVID-19, unless they are your family member and you have the necessary permissions to receive such information.

We know you are concerned about your loved one, but it is crucial that we restrict visitation to reduce the spread of this virus to others. Our team continues to work on plans for how visitation might be phased back in for our residents and tenants at Hope when the guidance allows.

Hope is staying in very close communication with local and state health officials to ensure we are taking all the appropriate steps under current circumstances. We are also following guidance from the CDC and CMS to reduce the spread and impact of COVID-19, such as:

• Follow up testing encouraged for all residents/tenants after a confirmed case
• Enhanced infection control precautions
• Screening residents, staff, and essential visitors for expanded list of symptoms
• Restricting visitation and entry of people to the building
• Testing staff and residents for COVID-19 based on current protocols and availability of tests
• Postponing communal activities
• Creating a separate unit for our COVID-19 positive residents
• Plans to install a sealed barrier to further promote infection control
• Dropping off necessary items for the designated unit via contactless strategies
• Utilizing disposable products when possible for our COVID-19 positive residents
• Staff utilizing N95 masks when caring for COVID-19 positive residents

We also understand that connecting with family members is incredibly important to our residents. Family members are encouraged to connect with their loved ones through video chat, calling, texting, or on social media. Please reach out to the facilities, Hope Health at 920-269-4386 and Hope Senior at 920-269-7667 to set up a time for the video chats on our tablets.

This is a difficult time for everyone. We will continue to provide you with updates. Please know that we are adhering to guidelines from the local and state health departments, which continue to evolve as we learn more about this virus.  We encourage you to contact us with any questions. Please call us, email me at jschramek@hopehealthandrehab.com, follow us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/HopeHealthandRehabHopeSeniorLiving/ or visit our website www.hopehealthandrehab.com for updates on the COVID status at Hope Health and Hope Senior.

To help lighten the spirits of our resident/tenants, families and staff during this challenging time, we have planned another Drive and Wave Parade for Father’s Day weekend on June 20^th starting at 11am with a Drive By Brat Fry to follow immediately after. Funds raised for the Brat Fry will go towards our new activity van fund so we can safely take our residents on outings off Hope grounds. Save the date and watch for more details posted this week.

Thank you for doing your part to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in our communities. As always, we will continue to do our part to keep your loved ones safe.

Julia Schramek RN, LNHA
Administrator

To Our Residents and Family Members:

We want to inform you that at Hope Health and Rehabilitation Center we have one (1) staff member with a confirmed case of COVID-19. Upon being notified of the staff member’s positive status, Hope Health immediately restricted the staff member from working. The staff member will not be allowed to return to work for at least 14 days. The staff member had no symptoms of COVID-19 while at work. The last date the staff worked at Hope Health was 6/4/2020.

No residents, are suspected at this time.

The safety and wellbeing of our residents is our top priority. We are doing what we can to limit the spread of COVID-19 within Hope Health and Rehabilitation Center, including staying in very close communication with local and state health officials to ensure we are taking all the appropriate steps under current circumstances.

We are taking steps based on guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to reduce the spread and impact of COVID-19, such as:

• Enhanced infection control precautions
• Screening residents, staff, and essential visitors for expanded list of symptoms
• Restricting visitation and entry of people to the building
• Testing staff and residents for COVID-19 based on current protocols and availability of tests
• Postponing communal activities
• Creating a separate unit for our COVID-19 positive residents
• installing a sealed barrier to further promote infection control
• Dropping off necessary items for the designated unit via contactless strategies
• Utilizing disposable products when possible for our COVID-19 positive residents
• Staff utilizing N95 masks when caring for COVID-19 positive residents

Due to government privacy requirements, we cannot divulge specific information about the individuals who have confirmed or suspected COVID-19, unless they are your family member and you have the necessary permissions to receive such information.

We know you are concerned about your loved one, but it is crucial that we restrict visitation to reduce the spread of this virus to others. We will contact you directly if your loved one is suspected or diagnosed with COVID-19.

We also understand that connecting with family members is incredibly important to our residents. Family members are encouraged to connect with their loved ones through video chat, calling, texting, or on social media. Please speak to a member of our activities or social services department for assistance with video chat.

We need your help in battling COVID-19. Please visit the CDC website (www.cdc.gov/coronavirus) to learn how you can help prevent the spread in our community, since continued spread in the larger community increases the chance the virus will work its way into our building.

This is a difficult time for everyone. We will continue to provide you with updates. Please know that we are adhering to guidelines from the local and state health departments, which continue to evolve as we learn more about this virus.

We know that you may have questions and we encourage you to contact our center. Please call us at 920-269-4386 or visit our website hopehealthandrehab.com for updates.

Sincerely,

Steve Kuranz, Executive Director

 

Dear Family and Friends of Hope Health and Rehab / Hope Senior Living Residents and Tenants,

Hope Health and Hope Senior residents, tenants and staff continue to remain free of COVID-19. We have conducted our second wave of testing this week with weekly testing now mandatory for all staff members. We will notify residents/tenants and their representative as soon as reasonably possible via phone and email if a case of COVID-19 is detected. Updates will be posted on our website and Facebook page as well.

Baseline testing of residents and all staff is a necessary step in the direction towards phasing in visitation in the future. Hope is anxiously awaiting guidance from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on how to allow visitation. We are continuing to follow their guidance which includes restricting all visitation, except for certain compassionate care reasons, such as end-of-life. Our team is working on plans for how visitation might be phased back in for our residents and tenants at Hope when the guidance allows.

Hope continues to closely monitor our PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) usage. We still ask for any donations of gowns (disposable or cloth), disposable gloves, hand soap, sanitizers and Lysol Disinfectant Spray. Please reach out to us at 920-269-4386 if you are able to help provide any of these items.

We are committed to helping our residents and tenants stay connected to families and friends by supporting meaningful interactions through phone, Zoom and Skype. Please reach out to the facilities, Hope Health at 920-269-4386 and Hope Senior at 920-269-7667 to set up a time for the video chats on our tablets. Residents and tenants are encouraged to limit calls on facility devices to 20 minutes at a time to ensure fair use of the items and ample time to properly disinfect between use.

Hope Health and Hope Senior have teamed up with Heartfelt Flowers and Gifts (920-269-1277) and The Village Flower Shoppe (920-387-4540) to arrange staff pickup weekly for your loved ones at Hope. Staff will pick up the items every Thursday at 4pm. Orders for The Village Flower Shoppe will be picked up at Piggly Wiggly in Lomira.

Our Amazon wish list is still available if you would like to contribute a treat for our residents or hard-working team. Thanks to all that continue to gift our residents and staff with your generosity! https://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/wishlist/VMHVF5QISFK6/ref=cm_wl_huc_title.

Two exciting events at Hope to add to your calendars:

Sunday, June 14^th from 3pm-5pm Hope will offer another Drive By Drop Off, a designated special drop off opportunity to supply your loved ones with those difficult to ship items (sodas, snacks, clothing, gifts) on Sunday, June 14^th from 3pm-5pm. This drop off will help minimize community contacts (and potential COVID transmission) while also allowing staff the time to properly disinfect items before they get to the folks we care for.

Although our last Drive By Drop Off was a success, we’ve decided to schedule specific times for family and friends to arrive at the facility to bring items. We’d love for you to be able to see your resident or tenant out on the porch to wave and say hello while you drive by and signing up for a time will better help us facilitate that. We’re using SignUp.com to organize our upcoming event.

Here’s how it works in 3 easy steps:
1. Click this link to go to our invitation page on SignUp.com: https://signup.com/login/entry/536998975791792070
2. Enter your email address: (You will NOT need to register an account on SignUp.com)
3. Sign up! Choose your spot – SignUp.com will send you an automated confirmation and reminders. Easy!
Once you sign up, we will send you the details on the Drop Off. Sorry, but we still will not be able to accept any items that are dropped off at the door.

We are also excited to plan another Drive and Wave Parade for Father’s Day weekend on June 20^th along with a Brat Fry for our new activity van fund. Save the date and watch for more details in the next few weeks!

Thank you for doing your part to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in our communities. As always, we will continue to do our part to keep your loved ones safe.

Julia Schramek RN, LNHA
Administrator

Dear Family and Friends of Hope Health and Rehab / Hope Senior Residents and Tenants,

Hope Health and Hope Senior Living are very pleased to announce that with the 143 residents/tenants and staff that were tested for COVID-19 last week, all results came back negative! Hooray!

Moving forward and following the guidance from the CDC and WI Department of Health Services, we plan to have all staff test weekly along with our current screening upon entry to the facility. We continue close monitoring and COVID assessments for each resident/tenant and any resident that shows symptoms will be tested. Having baseline testing of residents and all staff is a necessary step in the direction towards phasing in visitation of some sort. However, as businesses and public areas reopen, there is an increased risk of COVID-19 spreading to our vulnerable nursing home residents. We will still continue with our current visitor and non-essential staff restrictions but are working on plans for how visitation will look in the hopefully not too distant future.

Our Infection Prevention Team requested a Tele-Infection Control Assessment and Response evaluation which was conducted this week through the Wisconsin HAI (Healthcare Associated Infection) Prevention Program. They were very pleased with our plans, policies and procedures that we have set in place and made several suggestions that our team will work on implementing such as increasing resident/tenant hand hygiene before and after using the telephone or tablets, ensuring non-staff healthcare personnel are not using their own PPE, and conducting more frequent audits to ensure compliance of our policies.

Still planning for the possibility of COVID-19 cases in our facility, the team at Hope Health has decided to use the therapy room exclusively for any COVID-19 positive residents with plans to create an even more separate unit with a barrier installed and assign staff to work that unit exclusively. Hope Health and Hope Senior have created Emergency Staffing Plans should there be any positive cases detected in residents/tenants and/or staff.

Hope continues to closely monitor our PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) usage. We still ask for any donations of gowns (disposable or cloth), disposable gloves, hand soap and sanitizers. Please reach out to us at 920-269-4386 if you are able to help provide any of these items. Hope is ready to work with the Battelle Decontamination System for our N95 masks as another way to help preserve PPE. You can learn more about this system at www.battelle.org.

We are here to support our residents, tenants, their families and friends and will continue to find ways to help you have meaningful interactions with your loved one through phone, Zoom and Skype. Our team members are happy to assist with these calls. Please reach out to the facilities, Hope Health at 920-269-4386 and Hope Senior at 920-269-7667 to set up a time for the video chats. Please note that starting this week are encouraging a 20 minute at a time limit on the facility shared devices (cordless phones, tablets) so that we can ensure fair use of these items and ample time to properly disinfect between use.

Hope Health and Hope Senior have teamed up with Heartfelt Flowers and Gifts (920-269-1277) and The Village Flower Shoppe (920-387-4540) to arrange staff pickup weekly for your loved ones at Hope. Staff will pick up the items every Thursday at 4pm. Orders for The Village Flower Shoppe will be picked up at Piggly Wiggly in Lomira.

Our Amazon wish list is still available if you would like to contribute a treat for our residents or hard-working team. Thanks to all that continue to gift our residents and staff with your generosity! https://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/wishlist/VMHVF5QISFK6/ref=cm_wl_huc_title.

We are excited to plan another Drive and Wave Parade for Father’s Day weekend on June 20^th. Save the date and watch for more details in the next few weeks!

Thank you for doing your part to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in our communities. As always, we will continue to do our part to keep your loved ones safe.

Julia Schramek RN, LNHA
Administrator

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Dear Family and Friends of Hope Health and Rehab / Hope Senior Residents and Tenants,

Hope Health and Hope Senior Living residents, tenants and staff continue to remain free of COVID-19.

As businesses have begun opening their doors, we have been receiving many inquiries on when Hope Health and Hope Senior will be lifting visitor restrictions. Our business is the health and safety of our residents, tenant and staff. At this time, we continue to follow the guidance from CMS and our healthcare associations and not permit visitors at Hope Health and Hope Senior. Window visits continue to be restricted for our facilities as well. These interventions are necessary to continue to slow the spread of COVID-19 to vulnerable nursing home residents. Again, we thank everyone for their patience and understanding by abiding by Hope Health and Hope Senior’s current restrictions.

Please know that we are here to support our wonderful residents, tenants, their families, and their friends. We will continue to find ways to help you have meaningful interactions with your loved one through phone, Zoom and Skype. Our team members are happy to assist with these calls. Please reach out to the facilities, Hope Health at 920-269-4386 and Hope Senior at 920-269-7667 to set up a time for the video chats.

With the Badger Bounce Back initiative, Gov. Evers and the Department of Public Health have recommended baseline COVID testing of all residents and staff in skilled nursing facilities. After careful review of the guidance, Hope Health and Hope Senior began testing for COVID-19 for all consenting residents, tenants and staff this week. We anticipate receiving results early next week. If there is a positive case of COVID-19 detected in any resident, tenants or staff member, we will notify all staff, residents, tenants and their family/representative that a positive COVID test has been detected in our buildings. We will make those notifications as soon as possible and will be ready to address your concerns and answer any questions.

Hope continues to closely monitor our PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) usage. We still ask for any donations of gowns (disposable or cloth), disposable gloves, hand soap and sanitizers. Please reach out to us at 920-269-4386 if you are able to help provide any of these items. Hope is ready to work with the Battelle Decontamination System for our N95 masks as another way to help preserve PPE. You can learn more about this system at www.battelle.org

Since our Mother’s Day flower pickup and drop off went so well and our resident/tenants were thrilled to receive the beautiful arrangements, we have decided to team with Heartfelt Flowers and Gifts (920-269-1277) and The Village Flower Shoppe (920-387-4540) to arrange staff pickup weekly for your loved ones at Hope. Staff will pick up the items every Thursday at 4pm. Orders for The Village Flower Shoppe will be picked up at Piggly Wiggly in Lomira.

Our Amazon wish list has been updated with more goodies for both residents/tenants and staff. Thanks to all that continue to gift our residents and staff with your generosity! https://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/wishlist/VMHVF5QISFK6/ref=cm_wl_huc_title.

Thank you for doing your part to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in our communities. As always, we will continue to do our part to keep your loved ones safe.

Julia Schramek RN, LNHA
Administrator

Dear Family and Friends of Hope Health and Rehab / Hope Senior Residents and Tenants,

Hope Health and Hope Senior Living residents, tenants and staff continue to remain COVID-19 free! If there is a positive case of COVID-19 detected in any resident or staff member, we will notify all staff, residents and their family/representative as soon as possible and will be ready to address your concerns and answer any questions. If you have not done so already, please provide us an email address so we can get pertinent information and updates out to you quickly. You can send a message to jschramek@hopehealthandrehab.com or call the facilities and we’ll update your contact information.

By now, you have likely heard that the Wisconsin Supreme Court on May 13 overturned Wisconsin’s “Safer-at-Home” Order, which had prohibited many businesses – like restaurants, nonessential retail stores, and bars – from allowing customers to enter their premises. Those businesses are now able to begin reopening, unless a local county/municipal order dictates they remain closed.

We want all our resident’s family and friends to understand that a federal directive to restrict visitation at nursing facilities remains active. The federal directive is not affected by the Wisconsin Supreme Court decision.

The federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a formal memo on March 13 related to restricting visitation in nursing homes, except for certain compassionate care situations, such as end-of-life situations.

Further, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) continues to recommend restrictions on visitation in all LTC settings.

We at Hope Health and Rehab / Hope Senior Living are doing everything we can to prevent the spread of COVID-19, which poses serious health risks to elderly residents. We know that the current federal directive on visitation is difficult, but right now, these interventions are needed to slow the spread of COVID-19 to vulnerable nursing home residents. We will continue to restrict visitation, window visits and dropping off of all items at Hope Health and Hope Senior. Our residents are spending as much time as they can outdoors when weather permits and we want to ensure that our residents can enjoy that time safely. We thank everyone for their patience and understanding by abiding by Hope Health and Hope Senior’s current restrictions in order to keep our residents, tenants and staff safe.

We have designated a special drop off/pick up of seasonal clothing items and those difficult to ship treats (sodas, snacks) on Sunday, May 17^th from 3pm-5pm. You MUST call the facility or email jschramek@hopehealthandrehab to still sign up for the drop off and receive instructions on the exchange.

Please know that we are here to support our wonderful residents, tenants, their families, and their friends. We will continue to find ways to help you have meaningful interactions with your loved one through phone, Zoom and Skype. Our team members are happy to assist with these calls. Please reach out to the facilities, Hope Health at 920-269-4386 and Hope Senior at 920-269-7667 to set up a time for the video chats.

In accordance with the Badger Bounce Back initiative, Gov. Evers and the Department of Public Health have recommended baseline COVID testing of all residents and staff in skilled nursing facilities. After careful review of the guidance and considering how testing will affect those we care for, Hope has decided to proceed with offering COVID testing for all residents and staff. As our assisted living is on the same campus, Hope Senior tenants and staff have ability to also participate in testing. Our team is working on obtaining consents with the plan to begin testing of residents/tenants and staff next week. For those family members assisting residents with healthcare decision making, if you have not received a call to give consent by early next week, please let us know.

We continue to closely monitor our PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) usage. Staff are changing into cleaned, disinfected scrubs when arriving for their shift and having them cleaned and disinfected at Hope when they leave at the end of their shift. It’s a bit of extra effort for our team but we feel taking these extra steps will help reduce the chance of transmission in our facilities. Thank you to those that have donated masks and cloth gowns! Your kindness and consideration for our residents and staff is much appreciated. Hope is ready to work with the Battelle Decontamination System for our N95 masks as another way to help preserve PPE. You can learn more about this system at www.battelle.org

We continue to request donations of gowns (disposable or cloth), disposable gloves, hand soap and sanitizers. Please reach out to us at 920-269-4386 if you are able to help provide any of these items.

Our Amazon wish list been updated with more goodies for both residents/tenants and staff. Thanks to all that continue to gift our residents and staff with your generosity! https://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/wishlist/VMHVF5QISFK6/ref=cm_wl_huc_title.

Thank you for doing your part to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in our communities. As always, we will continue to do our part to keep your loved ones safe.

Julia Schramek RN, LNHA
Administrator

Dear Family and Friends of Hope Health and Rehab / Hope Senior Residents and Tenants,

Hope Health and Hope Senior Living are proud say we remain COVID-19 free for residents, tenants and staff.

We thank everyone for their patience and understanding as we continue to restrict all visitors and set firm measures on receiving deliveries. We know it is a frustrating time for the residents/tenants and their family and friends but we will continue to give great care and will get through this together.

If there is a positive case of COVID-19 detected in any resident or staff member, we will notify all staff, residents and their family/representative as soon as possible and will be ready to address your concerns and answer any questions. If you have not done so already, please provide us an email address so we can get pertinent information and updates out to you quickly. You can send a message to jschramek@hopehealthandrehab.com or call the facilities and we’ll update your contact information.

As many of you may have heard or seen on the news this week, Gov. Evers announced COVID testing availability for all nursing home residents and staff during the month of May. Residents and facilities have the choice of participating in the testing or not and seeing as Hope Health has no current COVID symptoms in any resident or staff member and our lab, Consultant’s Lab is able to provide quick testing and turn around if needed for residents, Hope is still weighing the benefits of wide scale testing and the effects it may have on our residents.

As we are continuing to monitor our PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) usage, we have determined this week to take steps to preserve our gown usage. After discussion with the Dodge County Health Department, we decided to instruct staff to bring scrubs, lab coats or cloth gowns to only be worn while at the facilities and to be cleaned with our disinfecting laundry solutions at Hope Health and Hope Senior. We feel these extra steps will help prevent any transmission coming into the facility at the start of the shift or traveling back into the community with staff at the end of their shift. Our team members are so gracious and adaptable to the changes and will do whatever they can to keep your loved ones safe. All staff will continue to wear masks at all times throughout the facility and goggles/face shields for any interactions in resident rooms or tenant apartments.

Hope has signed up with the Battelle Decontamination System for our N95 masks. Fortunately, Hope Health and Hope Senior have not needed to use our fit tested N95 masks yet, but should a positive case be detected in our facilities, we are prepared with stock that will be able to be decontaminated up to 20 times with this system. You can learn more about this system at www.battelle.org

We are still seeking donations of gowns (disposable or cloth), disposable gloves, hand soap and sanitizers. Please reach out to us at 920-269-4386 if you are able to help provide any of these items.

Our residents continue to remain in touch with their family and friends with phone calls, texting, Facebook, and video calls. Skype and Zoom meetings are available and our team members are happy to assist with setting up these video calls. Please reach out to the facilities, Hope Health at 920-269-4386 and Hope Senior at 920-269-7667 to set up a time for the video chats.

Residents and tenants were thrilled to enjoy McDonald’s dine in last week Friday. We have procedures in place for staff to pick up meals and have contactless drop off at Hope on their day away from the facility. It was a nice treat for the residents and tenants and we will plan more of these fun meals.

Staff have also been grateful to receive donated lunches again this week. It is always appreciated! Activity items and treats continue to be shipped in and our folks are truly enjoying them. Our Amazon wish list been updated with more goodies for both residents/tenants and staff. https://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/wishlist/VMHVF5QISFK6/ref=cm_wl_huc_title.

We have designated Sunday, May 17^th from 2pm-4pm to hold a seasonal clothing exchange. We know that some residents/tenants want to clear their closets of winter items and make room for the warmer weather clothes. Call Hope Health or Hope Senior or email me to let us know your resident/tenant would like to have their clothes swapped. You will be able to drive up to the car port (no need to leave the vehicle) and we will ensure all items received are properly disinfected before bringing them into the facility. You may also drop off those difficult to ship items (like sodas).

Thank you for doing your part to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in our communities. As always, we will continue to do our part to keep your loved ones safe. Have a wonderful Mother’s Day weekend and know that we will give your mommas and grandmas much love this Mother’s Day.

Julia Schramek RN, LNH
Administrator

Dear Family and Friends of Hope Health and Rehab / Hope Senior Residents and Tenants,

Hope Health and Hope Senior Living continues to remain COVID-19 free for residents, tenants and staff. We are grateful for all the well wishes, words of encouragement and prayers as we work hard to remain healthy and safe.

If there is a positive case of COVID-19 detected in any resident or staff member, we will notify all staff, residents and their family/representative as soon as possible.

Hope wishes to remain transparent with our families and the community on our buildings’ COVID status and how we are working to keep our residents, tenants and staff protected. We have been providing updates on our Hope Health and Rehabilitation / Hope Senior Living Facebook page, our website at www.hopehealthandrehab.com, by mail and by email for any family member that has provided HHRC or HSL with an email address. However, we do not want to bombard you with duplicate information and would prefer to send updates out via social media and email instead of “snail mail”. If you have not received an email update, please send a message to jschramek@hopehealthandrehab.com and I will add you to our email update list.

We thank you all for being supportive of our efforts to keep our residents, tenants and staff safe by heeding the Safer At Home initiative and understanding the request to avoid any trips to our facilities. We have received some inquiries on window visits and although some facilities may be allowing those, we feel it is safer for our residents, staff and community to hold off on these types of visits for the time being.  As the weather gets nicer and more residents and tenants are spending time outdoors (social distancing, of course), we have to ensure that any transmission by visitors is avoided. Hope will continue to evaluate this based on the guidance we receive. We certainly understand that remaining connected to family is essential and feel that we can offer ways to connect without the need to drop by the facility.

We have been having great success keeping residents in touch with their family and friends with Skype and Face Time video calls. Zoom meetings are available as well. Our residents really enjoy these chances to see and talk to family. Please call the facilities, Hope Health at 920-269-4386 and Hope Senior at 920-269-7667 to set up a time for the video chats.

Our caregivers and housekeepers continue to wear full PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) at all times in resident care areas. Staff have been fitted and assigned N95 masks this week. We continue to monitor usage quantities and adjust conservation procedures as recommended by the CDC in order to extend our use of PPE.  We are still seeking donations of gowns, hand soap and sanitizer. Please reach out to us at 920-269-4386 if you are able to help provide any of these items.

Just a reminder with Mother’s Day approaching, are working with Heartfelt Flowers & Gifts here in Lomira for family and friends to place orders for Mom and Grandma. Please call Heartfelt at 920-269-1277 by Wednesday, May 6th, and Nancy will help you pick the perfect gift or arrangement for Mom. Hope will arrange pick up of the flowers and gifts and deliver to your loved ones at Hope Health and Hope Senior for Mother’s Day.

Staff are so grateful for the lunches that have provided by resident/tenant family members as tour team members are not able to leave the facility during their shift. Our residents and tenants are so happy to know their community is thinking of them by sending snacks, games and puzzle books from the Amazon Wish List. Everything sent is greatly appreciated! https://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/wishlist/VMHVF5QISFK6/ref=cm_wl_huc_title.

Thank you for doing your part to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in our communities. As always, we will continue to do our part to keep your loved ones safe. 

Julia Schramek RN, LNHA
Administrator

Dear Family and Friends of Hope Health and Rehab / Hope Senior Residents and Tenants,

We are pleased to report that Hope Health and Hope Senior Living continues to remain COVID-19 free for residents, tenants and staff. Please know that if there is a positive case of COVID-19 detected in any resident or staff member, we will notify all staff, residents and their family/representative as soon as possible and for sure within 12 hours.

Last week, we designated our conference room for COVID+ cases on our Long Hall and our therapy room for cases on our Medicare Hall. Tenants at Hope Senior will remain in their private apartments if tested positive. Policies have been updated and staff have been well trained on procedures to follow should a resident or tenant test positive for COVID-19.

Our PPE (personal protective equipment) stock continues to remain adequate. We continue to monitor usage quantities and adjust procedures in order to keep our stock maintained. With careful tracking and usage, we have been able to adjust our use time to 1 shift for masks and 3 shifts for gowns. Soap and sanitizer from our regular suppliers, however, has been trickling in. We are still seeking donations of pump bottles of hand soap and sanitizer. Larger size gowns (2x-3x) have been difficult to order as well. Please reach out to us at 920-269-4386 if you are able to help provide any of these items.

Terri, our dietary manager, has had to make some changes to the menus with some items needing to be substituted by our food distributor during the pandemic. She has been able to substitute similar items (meat for a meat, vegetable for a vegetable) but just a heads up that our resident’s printed menus may be a little different. We will post the most current menu on our Community Channel (Channel 2).

With Mother’s Day approaching, we know that you may want to bring gifts or flowers to the facility to celebrate Mom’s special day. Please understand that we still must follow the Safe At Home order and not allow visitation or drop off of items at the facility. We do, however have a plan with Heartfelt Flowers & Gifts right here in Lomira where families can place an order and Hope will pick it up and deliver it to your loved one. Please call Heartfelt at 920-269-1277 by Wednesday, May 6th, and Nancy will help you pick the perfect gift or arrangement for Mom.

Our residents and staff would like to thank everyone for the encouraging words and gifts sent to the facility! If you would like to designate a gift from our Amazon Wish List to a certain resident or building (Hope Health or Hope Senior), please add that name in the gift message and we can be sure it goes to the right person. https://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/wishlist/VMHVF5QISFK6/ref=cm_wl_huc_title.

Keep those Skype calls, video messages, and Zoom meetings coming! It means a lot for our residents and tenants to have the opportunity to hear your voice and see family faces. Please call the facilities, Hope Health at 920-269-4386 and Hope Senior at 920-269-7667 to set up a time for the video chats.

Again, thank you for doing your part to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in our communities. We are thinking about all of you as well and hope you are remaining healthy. As always, we will continue to do our part to keep your loved ones safe. 

Julia Schramek RN, LNHA
Administrator

Dear Family Members,

Developments continue to occur rapidly regarding COVID-19. Since I wrote to you last here are some updates for you:

1. On Thursday March 12, 2020 and Friday March 13, 2020, I met with residents and tenants at all four of our locations informing them of our intent to restrict all visitors to our homes. The residents were very understanding and had some excellent comments and questions. Our team reached out to family members of our residents to update them.
2. By Friday March 13, 2020 all of our buildings were closed to visitors.
3. On Saturday March 14, 2020 we received guidance to eliminate communal dining and activities. We immediately began strategizing how to safely implement this guidance.
4. On Sunday March 15, 2020 I met with our teams to continue to strategize ways to implement CDC and CMS recommendations.

Research by the CDC indicates the best way to stop the spread of COVID-19 is limit outside visitors to our facilities. Also, within the building Social Distancing should help limit the spread of the virus, thus the guidance to discontinue communal dining and activities. We understand the negative impact Social Distancing can have on our residents and are providing activities to all

We have been diligent in screening our team of caregivers for signs and symptoms of the virus. Before each shift, staff members are required to take their temperature and document if they have any symptoms of the virus. If the staff member has fever or symptoms, they are not allowed to work.

Also, we are monitoring all of our residents on a daily basis to determine if they have a fever or symptoms of the virus. As always, we will keep you up to date on a regular basis regarding your loved one.

Our teams have reviewed our infection control practices and we are providing additional deep cleaning of our facilities.

We do not yet know how long we will need to live and work under these challenging circumstances but I am extremely proud of the way our team of caregivers have pulled together to continue to assure we Give Great Care to our residents. I am hopeful these measures will help shorten the impact of this virus.

Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions or comments.

Sincerely,
Steve Kuranz, Executive Director