PIONEER RIDGE LONG TERM CARE AND SENIOR SERVICES NEWSLETTER - December 2022, January, February 2023

PIONEER RIDGE LONG TERM CARE AND SENIOR SERVICES NEWSLETTER December 2022, January, February 2023 A MESSAGE FROM THE ADMINISTRATOR By the time this edition of our Newsletter hits your desks, our Christmas and New Year’s celebrations will have come and gone and the Home will be preparing for Valentine’s Day. [...] I would like to send out a huge thank you to all the staff, residents, families and external partners who contributed to the beautiful decorations and lights that brightened up our Home during the holiday season. [...] The goal is that all LTC homes, hospitals, and other care facilities will transition to using the IDDSI framework, so that we will all end up “speaking the same language” in regards to texture modified diets and fluid consistencies, which will help to improve the care & safety for our residents across our homes, hospitals and in the community. [...] What each resident has been deemed ‘safe’ to chew/swallow will still be the food they receive, however the terminology in care plans and on the diet sheets will be adjusted to fit the new framework. [...] • Guidance was added enabling PHU discretion to advise pausing communal dining and activities if the home is experiencing a facility-wide outbreak where transmission is uncontrolled, the rate of increase in cases or severity is significant and the benefits of closing communal activities are greater than the harms caused to resident wellbeing.