Update on Covid 19 precautions:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Starting Thursday midnight, 11 June 2021 Victorian Government further relax Covidsafe End of life care visits<\/strong> Specified purposes<\/strong> Visitor restrictions for Specified Purposes visits<\/strong> Visits from prospective residents are not permitted<\/strong> Other measures<\/strong> Where practicable, care facility workers should be limited to working at one site and Kindly share this update with other family members who may wish to be kept Update on Covid 19 precautions: Starting Thursday midnight, 11 June 2021 Victorian Government further relax Covidsafemeasure in community ...<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1140,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-covid-19-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/echinc.org.au\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/echinc.org.au\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/echinc.org.au\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echinc.org.au\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echinc.org.au\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1134"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/echinc.org.au\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1136,"href":"https:\/\/echinc.org.au\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1134\/revisions\/1136"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echinc.org.au\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/echinc.org.au\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echinc.org.au\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echinc.org.au\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
measure in community setting.
However, ECH as of any other Residential aged care facility is classified as high-risk area,
we continue obeying the Government guidelines and specific visiting restrictions in aged
care as detailed in memo issued on 25 May 2021: \u201cCare Facility Visitors Visitor restrictions:
No visitors are permitted into aged care or other sensitive settings, except for end-of-life
reasons or other specified purposes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2022 Two visitors at a time
\u2022 Do not have to be from the same household.
\u2022 No time limits.
\u2022 No daily limit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2022 Provide essential care or support for the resident\u2019s immediate physical or emotional
wellbeing, including support for people living with dementia.
\u2022 Is the parent, carer or guardian of a person under the age of 18.
\u2022 As a nominated person (as defined in the Mental Health Act 2014) including support
for people living with dementia.
\u2022 As an interpreter or to provide language support.
\u2022 To learn to support the patient or resident\u2019s care upon discharge<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2022 Two visitors at one time
\u2022 Do not have to be from the same household
\u2022 No time limits.
\u2022 Specified purpose required.
\u2022 No more than two visitors per day, including dependents.
\u2022 Recommendation for remote \/ electronic visits
\u2022 Providing interpreter services or acting as a nominated person should be provided
remotely unless it is not practicable to do so.
\u2022 Other care and support should be provided remotely if reasonable and appropriate in
the circumstances (e.g., phone call support for someone with hearing difficulties
would not be appropriate).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Face mask requirements
\u2022 All need to scan Victorian QR code.
\u2022 All visitors are required to wear face masks.
\u2022 All workers are required to wear surgical masks.
\u2022 All workers are required to wear eye protection, face shields are preferred when
providing direct care for residents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2022 Enhanced screening and testing on admission or return to facility from leave.
Residents found to have visited listed exposure sites to be covid swab tested and
managed as at risk COVID (isolation at own bedroom) until negative results known. \u2022 Enhanced focus on screening visitors and staff and continuing daily workforce
attestations.
\u2022 Restricting visitors and staff found to have visited exposure sites until they have
returned a negative test result.
\u2022 Tier 3 PPE \u2013 surgical mask and face shields for low risk suspected COVID-19 and
high-risk suspected COVID-19 and confirmed COVID residents needs N95 masks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
ECH is maintaining it until further notice.
\u2022 Student clinical placements permitted in all settings but restricted from providing
care\/being exposed to high-risk COVID and confirmed COVID patients. Students
restricted to one site only.
\u2022 It is anticipated geographic locations and exposure sites will be updated in coming
days. Please monitor the?DH coronavirus website?for the latest information Case
alerts \u2013 public exposure sites | Coronavirus Victoria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
informed.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"