WRC Weekly COVID-19 Update
1/27/2021
We’re sharing our weekly update to keep WRC employees, residents, and families informed of changing regulations and policies at the national and state level, as well as within the WRC continuum. Thank you to all WRC essential workers!
Updates within WRC Continuum
- COVID status at each community (as of 1-27-2021, 12:00 PM)
- Highland Oaks in Clarion, PA
- 0 current resident cases, 0 current staff cases, 2 cumulative cases
- Edgewood Heights in New Bethlehem, PA
- 0 new resident cases, 0 new staff cases, 41 cumulative cases
- Ridgmont in Ridgway, PA
- 0 new resident cases, 0 new staff cases, 8 cumulative cases
- Laurelbrooke Personal Care in Brookville, PA
- 0 new resident cases, 0 new staff cases, 5 cumulative cases
- McKinley Health Center in Brookville, PA
- 0 new resident cases, 0 new staff cases, 98 cumulative cases
- Please contact the community directly for more information about current and past COVID-19 cases
- First vaccinations were administered throughout the WRC continuum from partners Walgreens and PharMerica, who are offering the vaccine to long-term care facilities at no cost. The 2nd dose of the vaccination is scheduled 3 weeks after the first dose as a priority to vaccinate during phase 1A of vaccine distribution(more information below).Phase 1A is the first vaccine distribution step. The vaccine is currently being distributed to:
- Long-term care facility residents
- Health care personnel including, but not limited to:
- Emergency medical service personnel
- Nurses
- Nursing assistants
- Physicians
- Dentists
- Dental hygienists
- Chiropractors
- Therapists
- Phlebotomists
- Pharmacists
- Technicians
- Pharmacy technicians
- Health professions students and trainees
- Direct support professionals
- Clinical personnel in school settings or correctional facilities
- Contractual HCP not directly employed by the health care facility
- Persons not directly involved in patient care but potentially exposed to infectious material that can transmit disease among or from health care personnel and patients
- Persons ages 65 and older
- Persons ages 16-64 with high-risk conditions:
- Cancer
- Chronic kidney disease
- COPD
- Down Syndrome
- Heart conditions, such as heart failure, coronary artery disease, or cardiomyopathies
- Immunocompromised state (weakened immune system) from solid organ transplant or from blood or bone marrow transplant, immune deficiencies, HIV, use of corticosteroids, or use of other immune weakening medicines
- Obesity (body mass index [BMI] of 30 kg/m2 or higher but < 40 kg/m2)
- Severe Obesity (BMI ≥ 40 kg/m2)
- Pregnancy
- Sickle cell disease
- Smoking
- Type 2 diabetes mellitus
- Highland Oaks in Clarion, PA
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