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Good evening all
Just curious what your thoughts and current policies are regarding new
admissions to aged care facilities and quarantine.At present in our facility we are quarantining new admissions from the
community or hospital for 14 days. This is following a recommendation from
our local PHN.Are others following a similar policy? What are your thoughts on perhaps
COVID testing new admissions and ceasing quarantine on return of negative
testing?Thank you
Lucas Lloyd
Clinical Operations Manager
Chaffey Aged Care, Merbein, VICMESSAGES POSTED TO THIS LIST ARE SOLELY THE OPINION OF THE AUTHOR, AND DO NOT REPRESENT THE OPINION OF ACIPC.
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Hi Lucas,
Victorian Department of Health and Human Services are pretty clear about asymptomatic testing that is only done for targeted blitz testing or if directed by DHHS. We are not doing any asymptomatic tests on our residents nor are we isolating them for 14 days. We are closely monitoring all our residents and we do an individual risk assessment on anyone who has returned from another healthcare facility. There is nothing in the aged care plan that suggests that all admissions and returning residents should be tested and isolated- see section 3.3.3
https://www.dhhs.vic.gov.au/aged-care-sector-coronavirus-disease-covid-19Regards,
Kelly
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Subject: [ACIPC_Infexion_Connexion] Quarantine of new admissions to aged careGood evening all
Just curious what your thoughts and current policies are regarding new admissions to aged care facilities and quarantine.At present in our facility we are quarantining new admissions from the community or hospital for 14 days. This is following a recommendation from our local PHN.
Are others following a similar policy? What are your thoughts on perhaps COVID testing new admissions and ceasing quarantine on return of negative testing?
Thank you
Lucas Lloyd
Clinical Operations Manager
Chaffey Aged Care, Merbein, VIC
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HI Lucas,
All entering should be COVID19 tested but you must also follow you state health guidelines. Any slips may cause harm to your patients and team AND a huge political and media backlash. Tread carefully. Good luck.
Kind regards
Karen
Karen Booth
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Australian Primary Health Care Nurses Association
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president@apna.asn.au | http://www.apna.asn.auGood evening all
Just curious what your thoughts and current policies are regarding new admissions to aged care facilities and quarantine.
At present in our facility we are quarantining new admissions from the community or hospital for 14 days. This is following a recommendation from our local PHN.
Are others following a similar policy? What are your thoughts on perhaps COVID testing new admissions and ceasing quarantine on return of negative testing?
Thank you
Lucas Lloyd
Clinical Operations Manager
Chaffey Aged Care, Merbein, VIC
MESSAGES POSTED TO THIS LIST ARE SOLELY THE OPINION OF THE AUTHOR, AND DO NOT REPRESENT THE OPINION OF ACIPC.
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