Flu Vaccination or Mask During Flu Season
All visitors and staff who are in resident areas (in Home, Hospital or Terrace) must wear a mask or have the flu vaacination.
What if I have not received the flu vaccine? Can I visit a resident at Menno Place?
If you are visiting Menno Home, Menno Hospital or Terrace East, you must either receive a flu vaacination or wear a mask in resident areas during flu season. Masks are provided at every entrance to these areas.
When is the “flu season”?
Flu season usually runs from December to the end of March.
Additional Resources
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Influenza – or the flu – can be a serious contagious disease, which is spread by droplet transmission through close contact with an infected person. Infected individuals are highly contagious and can transmit the virus for 24 hours before they show any symptoms.
Each year, there are approximately 3,500 deaths from influenza and its complications across Canada. Influenza causes by far the most deaths among vaccine-preventable diseases, outpacing all others combined.
Hospitalized patients and seniors in residential care are more vulnerable to influenza than healthy adults. The vaccine is also less effective in the elderly and those with compromised immune systems, making it even more important that their caregivers and visitors are vaccinated.
Gillian’s Tote Bags @ Fireside
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Scottish Dancers – Jan 26th
/in Family and FriendsFamily Council – Home & Hospital
/in Family and FriendsYou are invited to join us!
Family and Friends (Family Council) Connections
Thursday, January 17, 2019
*New Time 3:00 – 4:00pm
*New Location Hospital Conference Room
(Front Entrance of Menno Hospital near Fireside Café – little hallway to your left just past Receptionist – Leslie’s desk)
Coffee, Tea, Refreshments are provided
On January 17, 2019 Family and Friends (Family Council) will have Dale Carlisle (Rehab Therapist) come to discuss the SCOPE project. SCOPE is a program designed as part of a research project from the University of Alberta called TREK. SCOPE stands for: Safer Care of Older People in residential Environments. Front line care staff and leadership members from various facilities are selected and guided through a year long process that educates and supports them as they develop and implement positive changes to benefit residents.
Mobility and Falls Prevention is the focus of Menno Hospital’s TREK/SCOPE Research Project and is being carried out on West 2 by an interdisciplinary team made up of HCA (care aide) Recreation, Rehab and Nursing leaders. The team is called the Menno Mobility Squad (M&M’s) and throughout the next year they will be working to encourage residents to lead a more active lifestyle in order to maintain their strength as a means to reducing or preventing falls.
Their aim is: By April 2019, to implement an approach to an active lifestyle for residents that reduces falls by 50% . Their motto is: “Mobility within your ability”.
The project is currently focused on W2 Hospital during this development phase but it is anticipated that the positive results from it will be implemented through the Menno Campus going forward.
Trish Giesbrecht (Manger of Care and QI Lead) will also be joining the group to discuss her role and how she can be a support for family members.
Apartments: January Highlights
/in Family and FriendsJanuary 2019
Rexall Pharmacy Presentations: “Digestive Health”
• Primrose: January 3rd at 2 pm – Activity Room
• Terrace/Pavilion: January 14th – Terrace East 1st Floor Lounge
Hearing Clinics:
• Terrace/Pavilion: January 3rd at 2:00 pm – Terrace East 1st Floor Lounge
• Primrose: January 3rd at 3:30 pm – Primrose Activity Room
Ukulele Performance:
Terrace Dining Room – January 19th at 3:00 pm
Show and Tell:
• Pavilion: January 23rd 2-4 pm Dining Room
• PG: January 24th 2-4-Primrose Activity Room
• Terrace: January 11th – Terrace 1st Floor Lounge
Carver Family Performance:
Terrace Dining Room – January 30th at 2:30 PM
Bus Trips:
January 17th: All day bus trip: Fly Over Canada
January 25th: Morning shopping trip
January 25th : Afternoon trip to Langley Farm Museum
January 31st: Evening Dinner Out
Home & Hospital: January Highlights
/in Family and FriendsJanuary 2019
January 08 @ 10:30am – Concert in Care Hospital Chapel
January 09 @ 10:30am – Saints Alive Hospital Chapel
January 12 @ 2:00pm – Jean’s school of music Hospital Chapel
January 10 – Mike’s Critter’s @ 1:30 –Home MPR/ 2:30pm @ Hospital Chapel
January 26 @ 2:00pm – Highland Dance group Hospital Chapel
Jean’s Academy of Music Performance -Jan 12th
/in Family and FriendsFlu Vaccination or Mask During Flu Season
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All visitors and staff who are in resident areas (in Home, Hospital or Terrace) must wear a mask or have the flu vaacination.
What if I have not received the flu vaccine? Can I visit a resident at Menno Place?
If you are visiting Menno Home, Menno Hospital or Terrace East, you must either receive a flu vaacination or wear a mask in resident areas during flu season. Masks are provided at every entrance to these areas.
When is the “flu season”?
Flu season usually runs from December to the end of March.
Additional Resources
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Influenza – or the flu – can be a serious contagious disease, which is spread by droplet transmission through close contact with an infected person. Infected individuals are highly contagious and can transmit the virus for 24 hours before they show any symptoms.
Each year, there are approximately 3,500 deaths from influenza and its complications across Canada. Influenza causes by far the most deaths among vaccine-preventable diseases, outpacing all others combined.
Hospitalized patients and seniors in residential care are more vulnerable to influenza than healthy adults. The vaccine is also less effective in the elderly and those with compromised immune systems, making it even more important that their caregivers and visitors are vaccinated.
Concert in Care -Jan 8th
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