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Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is an infectious disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). It was first identified in December 2019 in Wuhan, China, and has resulted in an ongoing pandemic. The first case in the UK was confirmed in late January 2020 and as of June there has been more than 40,000 deaths in the UK as a result.
The listed symptoms of COVID-19 are:
A high temperature
This means you feel hot to touch on your chest or back (you do not need to measure your temperature).
A new, continuous cough
This means coughing a lot for more than an hour, or 3 or more coughing episodes in 24 hours (if you usually have a cough, it may be worse than usual).
A loss or change to your sense of smell or taste
This means you’ve noticed you cannot smell or taste anything, or things smell or taste different to normal.
If you present with any of these symptoms you must self-isolate for 7 days from when the symptoms started. Anyone who does not have symptoms must self-isolate for 14 days from when the first person in your home started having symptoms.
If your symptoms are mild, remain at home, should you notice they have deteriorated, do not go to your GP or a Hospital contact 111 and follow the advice provided.
To contain COVID-19 the government has identified the individuals in the public at the highest risk and asked those to isolate for a minimum period of 12 weeks from 29th March 2020. This includes the most elderly in the population. All full list of conditions under shielding can be found via the NHS website via this link – https://digital.nhs.uk/coronavirus/shielded-patient-list#timings
COVID-19 Visitors Policy
The UK remains in the containment phase of tracing coronavirus cases to prevent it spreading in the community. Charlton Grange are committed to ensuring that we keep all our residents, patients and staff as safe as possible and as a preventative measure we are asking visitors, including family members and friends, to minimise visits to our care homes and hospitals until further notice.
We have not taken this decision lightly, and appreciate that this may cause some discomfort, but feel that this is a necessary step to take. If there is a situation that requires a non-routine visit, we would ask that you discuss this with us to ensure that the appropriate precautionary measures are taken to limit any potential risk.
In addition, we are limiting visits overall, and visits from the local community and external entertainment are cancelled for the foreseeable future. Our staff will do all they can to ensure that life in our services remains as comfortable and sociable as possible. We will still ensure that vital medical visits are made and will be sure that only visitors who are not displaying symptoms come in, and that they wash their hands on entering.
We would really appreciate your support with these measures, and please be reassured that we are closely following and complying with the Public Health authorities to ensure that we keep our residents and patients safe, and that our staff are supported to continue to deliver great care. In the unfortunate situation that we do have a case we will need to stop all visiting completely and will inform you accordingly.
COVID Policies
To prevent spreading the disease we have adhered to the advice issue by Public Health, NHS and Government and carried out the following:
- Have taken all reasonable steps to help the staff who are to work from home, work at home.
- All reasonable steps to maintain a 2m distance whilst at work
- Where it is not possible to maintain a 2m distance we have done everything practical to reduce transmission
- Adapted our cleaning, handwashing, and hygiene procedures in line with advice provided
- Have increased the number of hand sanitising station across the home
- Carried out a COVID-19 risk assessment and shared the results with all staff
- Have vowed to remain open and honest with all families and staff members about risk and open cases.
- Will refuse to accept any new admissions that are COVID positive or have not undergone any testing
- Mandatory for all staff to wear face masks at all times
- Taken the decision to double our stock prevision to avoid where possible being caught national stock shortage
- Signed our clinical team up for training to undertake COVID-19 testing to avoid any unnecessary visits from external bodies
In addition to this we are investing in technology to continue to improve the care we deliver to ensure none of our residents are at a loss during this pandemic. An increase in technology also allows us to further limit visits to the home to provide our residents with the maximum possible protection.
Charlton Grange its management and team will strive to protect its residents to the best of our abilities, this may mean making the difficult decision to limit the visits to the home to video only unless absolutely necessary.
We would also like to extend our gratitude and thanks to the families our residents for putting their trust in us, and to the community for the support we have received through these unprecedented times.
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