AUGUST 12, 2020
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Century Park Lifts Some Restrictions for Visitors Rosanne Fortier News Correspondent Century Park is a Continuing Care Facility in Vegreville which has recently lifted some of the restrictions placed on visitors due to the COVID-19 Pandemic. Leslie Beard, Media Relations Spokesperson, said Alberta’s Chief Medical Officer of Health, Dr. Hinshaw, started lifting some restrictions for continuing care facilities beginning in July, and as a result, throughout this whole pandemic, Century Park has been following the Government of Alberta’s
directions and guidelines. “Century Park is now allowing each resident if they want to have two designated visitors come and visit them inside the building. These people have to pre-book if they want to come in, and they have to be thoroughly screened and follow all the precautions we always had in place; wear a mask, fill out a form, have their temperature taken. If people visit outside they do not have to be screened and we allow five visitors for each resident this way. However, both inside and outside people have to
stay six feet apart and wear a mask, agree not to do any touching or hugging. Then if people are visiting outside and it starts raining, they can come into Century Park’s large meeting room (auditorium),” Bread explained. “The nice thing about the two designated people who come into the facility is they can stay as long as they want to. “Another thing we are doing is we are having recreational activities inside. We still are maintaining all the screening and the safeguard policies where people have to be six feet apart.
But they can have 15 people inside the large auditorium like room where we host these activities. We are continuing to be very vigilant in terms of the health and safety of our residents. We are getting good feedback from our residents that this is what they want to see. We are still doing all the screening for all the staff and everybody that comes into the building everyday,” Beard added.
Salute to Front Line Workers Peggy Lobay and Nayan Malaviya
Peggy Lobay and Nayan Malaviya, Pharmacists from The Medicine Shoppe. (Rosanne Fortier/Photo)
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