Flu Season: Don’t Forget to Wear Your Flu Season Visitor Badge!
During Flu Season (December through March), all visitors at Menno Home, Hospital, and Terrace East must wear a mask or have the flu vaccination.
At all sign-in areas, you will find a badge to wear. For one-time visits, there are stick-on badges for you to indicate that you’ve had a flu shot or that you are choosing to wear a mask. Masks are also available at the sign-in area.
For frequent visitors, you can choose a clip-on badge which you can keep. A pink badge indicates that you have had a flu shot. A green badge indicates that you have not had a flu shot and are electing to wear a mask.
Thank you for protecting your family and friends at Menno Home from the spread of influenza!
Influenza Policy in Effect – All Visitors Must Have Flu Vaccine or Wear Mask
As of today, Wednesday, December 4, the Fraser Health Influenza Control Program Policy is in effect at Menno Home, Menno Hospital and Terrace East, Assisted Living.
Influenza causes the most deaths among vaccine-preventable diseases, outpacing all others combined. Each year in Canada approximately 3,500 people die from the flu and its complications. Hospitalized patients and seniors in residential care are usually more vulnerable than healthy adults.
To help protect this vulnerable population and the people who care for them, in 2012 Fraser Health implemented the Influenza Control Program Policy, which required health care workers and visitors to get the flu vaccine or to wear a mask in all patient care areas during flu season.
Fraser Health is implementing its Influenza Control Program Policy, effective Wednesday, December 4th, 2019. This policy requires that all staff and visitors, who have not received a flu shot, are required to wear a surgical mask when they are in the “resident care areas” (which means any area within Menno Home, Hospital and Assisted Living that is accessible to the residents who live here).
Masks will be available at the Nursing desks on each unit and the front entrances at Menno Home and Hospital. For Assisted Living, masks will be available at the front entrance.
Your participation for the health and safety of our residents will be required and greatly appreciated.
Thank you,
The Infection Prevention and Control Committee at Menno Place
