08/28/2020 COVID Testing Update

August 28, 2020

PMCC Completed another round of testing today, praying for a 2nd round of Negative results.  If we have cases we will continue to test weekly, otherwise watching the County percentage to ensure that we can move to monthly.  The Care center is required to follow these guidelines, the Assisted Living buildings will follow symptomatic guidelines.  Currently the Assisted Living Facility has resolved their 1 case and have had 2 follow-up testing rounds resulting in negative results.

COVID-19 Testing 

As part of CMS’ commitment to protecting nursing home residents, and to boost the surveillance of COVID-19, nursing homes are now required to conduct testing of residents and staff.  More information about these requirements and guidelines can be found here.  These guidelines include testing staff on a certain frequency based on the COVID-19 positivity rate for the county the nursing home resides in.  Rates of county positivity are posted here. Facilities should monitor these rates every other week and adjust staff testing accordingly.   https://data.cms.gov/stories/s/COVID-19-Nursing-Home-Data/bkwz-xpvg

The yellow counties mean once a week testing!  Green is once a month at this time