WRC Weekly COVID-19 Update

12/31/2020

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 12-31-2020, 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
    • 2 new resident cases, 1 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
    • 5 new resident cases, 1 new staff cases, 92 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.
• McKinley Health Center residents and staff will have the opportunity to receive the first dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine during the week of January 11^th, 2021. Vaccines will be administered from partners Walgreens and PharMerica, who are offering the vaccine to long-term care facilities at no cost. More details about the vaccination clinic will be released as they become available. Other WRC communities will also schedule vaccine clinics at a later date.

Other News and Resources

• Wolf Announces Lifting of Time Limited Mitigation on Jan. 4, Dashboard to Track Progress of COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution
  • Governor Tom Wolf and Secretary of Health Dr. Rachel Levine announced that the time-limited orders as written will expire at 8 a.m., Jan. 4 as planned. “Our mitigation efforts over the past several weeks are working, and I thank everyone who abided by the restrictions put in place to protect us,” Gov. Wolf said. “Every time we make a small decision to avoid risk – or take steps to make our actions a little bit less risky – we are helping to stop the spread of COVID-19 and save lives. At this time, my intention is to allow the time-limited mitigation orders that went into effect on December 12 to expire as planned on January 4.

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