{"id":20771,"date":"2022-01-13T02:40:54","date_gmt":"2022-01-13T02:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.whiddon.com.au\/?page_id=20771"},"modified":"2022-07-15T02:16:15","modified_gmt":"2022-07-15T02:16:15","slug":"update-to-whiddon-narrabri-ry-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.whiddon.com.au\/comms\/update-to-whiddon-narrabri-ry-employees\/","title":{"rendered":"Update to Whiddon Narrabri Robert Young employees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>13 January 2022<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Further to our last update to you, pleasingly, the local Public Health Unit have advised that the outbreak at Whiddon Narrabri &#8211; Robert Young is over, and we can once again welcome back visitors from Tuesday. Our final PCR swabs came back negative. While we&#8217;re pleased with this information, we do have 4x employees still isolating with COVID-19. A big <strong>thank you <\/strong>for the fantastic job you&#8217;ve each done in dealing with the outbreak and keeping our residents safe. We appreciate your support during this time.<\/p>\n<p>We ask that you keep the following in mind:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Continue to wear your N95 masks and face shields, and follow the <strong>green PPE signage guidelines<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Rapid Antigen Testing will continue to be required every day<\/li>\n<li>Meals, tea breaks and handovers will continue in the wing you are located. Reminder that breaks are to be staggered and socially distanced where possible<\/li>\n<li>Kitchen access remains restricted to kitchen staff only. Our care team will provide meals to residents in their dining halls<\/li>\n<li>Residents will remain in their respective wings<\/li>\n<li>Visits will recommence from Tuesday and outings are discouraged. Please refer to the Registered Nurse on duty if a resident requests to go out<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>As we prepare to welcome visitors back into our care home, please see our guidelines for visiting at this time:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Visitations will be limited between 10am to 2pm and these\u00a0<strong>must\u00a0<\/strong>be pre-booked<\/li>\n<li>Residents are permitted to have <strong>two fully vaccinated visitor aged 12 years and over only, per day<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Visitors must have received a second dose of a COVID vaccination at least 14 days prior to their visit<\/li>\n<li>Visits must not take place in communal areas and wherever possible, visits should occur in an outdoor area<\/li>\n<li>All visitors must wear a N95 mask and may also be given a face shield when visiting<\/li>\n<li>Visitors will be asked to complete a rapid antigen test as a condition of entry. Please ensure you arrive 15 minutes before your booking time<\/li>\n<li>Unvaccinated visitors are only permitted to visit a resident who is at the end of life. Please speak to your loved one\u2019s Care Manager directly to gain the necessary approval to visit<\/li>\n<li>We do encourage any external visits to be discouraged for now. However, a risk assessment will be undertaken if this has been discussed with your loved one&#8217;s Care Manager. Please note, if a resident does leave our care home for the day, screening will occur upon return with Rapid Antigen Testing and isolation required<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We thank you for your understanding an support at this time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>13 January 2022 Further to our last update to you, pleasingly, the local Public Health Unit have advised that the outbreak at Whiddon Narrabri &#8211; Robert Young is over, and we can once again welcome back visitors from Tuesday. Our final PCR swabs came back negative. While we&#8217;re pleased with this information, we do have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whiddon.com.au\/comms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whiddon.com.au\/comms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whiddon.com.au\/comms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whiddon.com.au\/comms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whiddon.com.au\/comms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20771"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.whiddon.com.au\/comms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24944,"href":"https:\/\/www.whiddon.com.au\/comms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20771\/revisions\/24944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whiddon.com.au\/comms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whiddon.com.au\/comms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whiddon.com.au\/comms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}