Update: Preparedness and Management of Coronavirus/COVID-19 

COVID-19 restrictions across the country are easing as states work to balance reopening of the economy with efforts to keep people safe from the virus.  
 
While many safety protocols remain in place for those we serve in our senior living communities, we’re pleased to provide a number of ways for our residents to safely connect with family and friends. These connections are vitally important to the health and well-being of those we serve. Most recently, several of our communities have begun welcoming scheduled care visits from designated Essential Caregivers, and in our Minnesota communities, we are following guidance from the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) on how to safely re-open to visitors, while protecting the health of our residents and team members. 
 
Rose Senior Living has had an interdisciplinary Health Safety Team working full time since late February to lead our ongoing COVID-19 safety measures. The virus most dramatically impacts older adults—the people we serve every day. The risk for adverse outcomes increases at age 60, with the highest incidence of risk at age 80 and above. We continue our focus on the health and safety of those we serve and our team members, having implemented numerous safety protocols to reduce the occurrence and transmission of the disease. And we are prepared to safely care for residents who may be on COVID precautions.  
 As an organization, we are committed to transparent and timely reporting of any occurrences of the virus to our assisted living, memory care and long-term care residents, their family members, our team members, and to our state and federal health agencies. We continue to carefully follow guidelines provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), and our local and state health agencies in our ongoing effort to minimize the transmission of COVID-19 in our communities.   We thank our dedicated and trained caregivers.  
 
Together, we will combat COVID-19. 
 
 

Ways to Connect

• Essential Caregiver Visits: Many of our communities are welcoming designated care providers back to the community, following strict safety protocols. More details available from each community.
• Indoor Visits: We are following MDH guidelines on safely re-opening our communities to indoor visits. Each community is regularly assessing their current status as it relates to the Department of Health guidance. More details are available from each community.
• Outdoor Visits: We are welcoming extended family and friends for these visits, following specific Department of Health safety protocols. Some communities offer “Connection Stations.” More details available from each community.
• Window Visits: Open window visits are welcomed, with physical distancing of 6 feet. More details available from each community.
• Letters, phone calls, text messaging

Ongoing Safety Protocols for Assisted Living, Memory Care, Long-Term Care

•  Resident Screening: Routinely conducting health screening  
• Team Member Health Screening: Checking temperatures on arrival and at the end of shifts
• Essential Caregiver Screening and personal protective equipment: Sign-in and health screening on arrival and appropriate PPE for duration of visit
• Masks for all outdoor visits  
• In-room activities as well as some safe distanced group activities in many of our communities  
• Safely distanced dining or in-room dining
• The use of face masks and all appropriate PPE by team members to reduce transmission of the virus
• Those we serve are wearing face masks when receiving cares or when out of their apartments
• We’re prepared to care for individuals on COVID precautions, following all safety protocols for isolation, PPE and care
• We continue to focus on infection control and prevention, following all CDC guidelines
• We have identified a dedicated part of our campuses, should it be needed, to care for our residents who may be recovering from COVID-19 and still be on COVID precautions  
• We’ve established a Resident & Family Resource Line (1-844-614-2498) for approved resident representatives to call with health questions about their loved ones - available from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. CDT Monday through Friday  
   

Indoor Visitor Policies

• The Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) recently issued overarching guidance on criteria recommendations for safely re-opening our community to visitors as we continue to protect the health of our residents and team members. This is referenced as Level 2 reopening by MDH. This guidance includes a recommendation on limiting extended visitor guidelines if there has been an active case of COVID-19 at the community within the past 28 days or if the number of cases in the county is greater than 10 per 10,000 residents. Each community will be evaluating their status and updating residents and families on a weekly basis.
• In many of our communities, we’ve implemented Essential Caregiver visits, designating specific individuals that are able to schedule time to come in and resume or provide many of those care services. Details are available at each community. We are carefully following the guidelines provided by our Departments of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
• We are following the guidelines provided by our Departments of Health for those living in our independent living communities. We continue to encourage the use of masks and safe physical distancing of 6-feet. We also continue to follow established prevention procedures in these buildings, including frequent hand washing and the cleaning and disinfecting of shared areas and frequently touched surfaces, among other steps. 
    

New Residents

Testing

We are partnering with our state health agencies for guidance on proactive testing for residents and team members in several of our communities. This testing is a helpful tool in identifying potential asymptomatic COVID-19 positive cases that may not otherwise be identified, to support our goal of reducing the transmission of the virus at our communities. 

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