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For the latest information re: how Little Flower is handling COVID-19:
- Please call 215.344.9426 for a daily update from Administrator, Rosemary Port RN, NHA.
- You may also check our Facebook page for updates.
Here is a list of Strategies for Prevention of COVID-19 that we have implemented, following the recommendations of the Federal government and the PA Department of Health:
- Monitoring of residents twice daily for temperature elevation or changes in pulse oximetry readings
- Visitor Restriction
- Social Distancing
- In-Room Dining
- Virtual Activities/Communication with Residents and Family Members
- Employee/ Essential Non-Employee Screening through Main Entrance (screening includes questions, temperature recording, administering proper personal protective equipment (PPE) and the directive to wash hands prior to entrance)
- Masking for residents when they leave their rooms for any reason
- Creation of a COVID-19 Isolation Unit/ Observation Unit for any positive or suspected positive COVID-19 residents
- Fit-testing of N-95 masks
- N-95 masks, isolation gowns, gloves and face shields for use with COVID-19 residents
- Proper personal protective equipment (PPE) for use with non-COVID-19 residents (including surgical masks)
- Sanitizing high touch surfaces in the building twice daily
- Inservicing of all departments on the proper donning and doffing of personal protective equipment (PPE) and proper hand hygiene technique
- Proactive testing of all residents and employees for COVID-19
- Pre-employment screening now to include testing for COVID-19 prior to start date
- All admissions to facility must be tested 48 hours prior to admission for COVID-19
- Alcohol-Based hand rub (ABHR) dispensers are available at the entrance, the hallways and each resident room
- Monitoring employee callouts for any respiratory symptoms/fever that may require testing for the virus and follow up with Occupational Health at Holy Redeemer
- Surveillance testing of all employees
- ProTex90 Sanitizing Treatment throughout our building
