WRC Weekly COVID-19 Update
11/19/2020
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 11-19-2020, 9:00 AM)
- Highland Oaks in Clarion, PA
- 0 current resident cases, 0 current staff cases, 0 cumulative cases
- Edgewood Heights in New Bethlehem, PA
- 0 current resident cases, 0 current staff cases, 1 cumulative cases
- Ridgmont in Ridgway, PA
- 0 current resident cases, 0 current staff cases, 0 cumulative cases
- Laurelbrooke Personal Care
- 0 current resident cases, 0 current staff cases, 3 cumulative cases
- McKinley Health Center
- 0 current resident cases, 1 current staff cases, 6 cumulative cases
- Please contact the community directly for more information about current and past COVID-19 cases, or the Director of Strategic Communication at 814-220-2142.
- Highland Oaks in Clarion, PA
Updates from the PA Department of Health
- The PA DOH released Additional Guidance for Patients After a Known Exposure to SARS-CoV-2
- If someone is identified as a close contact to a person with COVID, the close contact must quarantine for 14 days from the date of last contact.
- There is no recognized “presumed positive” case definition for COVID-19.
- Household contacts of COVID-19 cases who cannot isolate themselves must quarantine for 14 days after the case’s infectious period ends.
- Wolf Administration issues new orders
- The Wolf Administration issued new orders and recommendations earlier this week, including provisions for Protecting The Health Care System, a New Traveler Testing Order, a Strengthened Masking Order, and Recommendations For Colleges And Universities. The article can be viewed
Other News and Resources
- CMS Urges Nursing Homes to Follow Established COVID Guidelines This Holiday Season
- “Thanks to President Trump’s leadership, progress on a vaccine is proceeding at a pace worthy of the name Operation Warp Speed. Nevertheless, the approaching holiday season remains fraught with danger for the vulnerable residents of America’s nursing homes,” said CMS Administrator Seema Verma. “They have already endured loss and loneliness to a degree that would have been unthinkable before this year began, but they and their families – along with facilities themselves – must not let their guard down over the holiday season, especially with a safe and effective vaccine so close to reality.”
- The CDC recently released updated information on the long-term effects of COVID-19
- Little is known about the long-term effects of COVID-19, but symptoms may include:
- Difficulty with thinking and concentration (sometimes referred to as “brain fog”)
- Depression
- Muscle pain
- Headache
- Intermittent fever
- Fast-beating or pounding heart (also known as heart palpitations)
- Learn more at https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/long-term-effects.html
- Little is known about the long-term effects of COVID-19, but symptoms may include:
