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June 8, 2021 Dear Family Members Hello, I hope this email finds you well. My name is Patrick McDonnell, and I am the new Administrator at Shady Knoll Health Care Center. I am excited to be returning to Athena Health Care Systems where I started my career in 1998. I practice an open-door policy with… Continue Reading Continue reading
May 10th, 2021 Dear Families, This week, we celebrate National Nurses Home Week, which begins on May 6th each year since 1974 and ends on May 12th, in honor of Florence Nightingale’s birthday. We have events planned every day to celebrate with both our staff and residents. Ice cream truck, live music, and a picnic… Continue Reading Continue reading
April 21st, 2021 Dear Families, We hope this email finds you healthy and as optimistic as we are about the continuing decline in COVID cases in our surrounding community. Considering these encouraging numbers, we will begin to take a slightly different approach with these weekly email updates to you, focusing more on recreation activities taking… Continue Reading Continue reading
April 12th 2021 Dear Families, Our facility is still open! There have been no new residents with COVID diagnosis since January 3rd! Please review the new guidance which allows for LOA with family when the facility is COVID free. The facility is required to go over “best practices” when taking out loved ones and we… Continue Reading Continue reading
Due to prior obligations, this week’s community meeting with our administrator, Tim Flaherty, will be cancelled. The meetings will resume next week as scheduled (every Wednesday at 4pm). I apologize for the inconvenience. March 31st, 2021 Dear Families, At long last – we have new guidance from the CDC on nursing home visitation! This new… Continue Reading Continue reading
Click below for an update on our visitation plan, based on CT DPH and CDC guidance, effective 3/16/2021: Visitation Guidance (CT)… Continue reading
March 3, 2021 Dear Families, Hope you are all doing well. I’ve very excited at the prospect of opening up the facility to indoor supervised social distance visits with our residents. We are coming up on a 14 day cycle where no resident or staff member has tested positive. Emily, the Recreation Director, will… Continue Reading Continue reading
February 25th Dear Families, Hope you all are well. We currently have no residents who have a COVID + diagnosis. However, one employee tested positive last week. The law states that we must stay on lock-down for 14 days after a positive in the building. I am encouraging all families to update the… Continue Reading Continue reading
February 9th, 2021 Dear Families, As always, we hope this letter finds you safe and healthy as we begin the New Year! We still have 1 employee out with COVID-19 and there are no upcoming vaccine clinics scheduled. I will update you as soon as I hear differently We are very excited that our residents… Continue Reading Continue reading
February 4th Dear Families, Hope you all are well, We currently have no residents with COVID-19. We did however have an employee test positive during our last round of monitoring. We do see a major decline in infection rates in both our facility and the community. If you are interested in the zoom meeting held… Continue Reading Continue reading
