Dear John Clarke Community,
Greetings on this warm, summer day as we continue our strange odyssey living
with COVID-19. I am relieved to report that, as of this writing, our Nursing Center
remains COVID free.
We have been delighted to be able to start welcoming visitors back to the Nursing
Center to meet with their friends and loved ones. The reunions have brought some
of us to tears to witness. For those who are unable to come to the center personally,
we encourage you to reach out to our Recreation Department to schedule a video
call.
We are very appreciative of the kind donations that friends and families have made
to the Community over the last few months. Our staff and residents appreciate the
gifts of lunches, breakfast pastries and other goodies that have been delivered as
well as the wonderful charitable gifts that have been made. We have used some of
the donation money to purchase extra iPads for Nursing Center residents to “visit”
their loved ones with. THANK YOU!
I am deeply grateful to all our staff for their dedication to the residents of our
Community. They have made many personal sacrifices to ensure that they remain
safe and practice infection control recommendations to stay healthy. Each staff
member has been coming in weekly for COVID swab testing – an unpleasant,
sometimes painful, process.
I am very much looking forward to the day when we can open our doors up without
hesitation and invite the world back in.
Warm Regards, Joan
