Hanover Hall COVID Information

  September 29, 2020   Dear Residents and Families, The purpose of this letter is to communicate updates regarding our covid-19 reporting and the actions we continue to take to combat and protect our community.    Our test results from last week’s testing have been received and families have been notified. All residents who were tested on Wednesday, September 23, were negative for Covid. This makes two consecutive weeks with no new onset of Covid amongst staff as well as our residents. The one employee who tested positive the week of 9/14 is asymptomatic, doing well, and is home self-isolating for 14 days. If this employee remains asymptomatic, she will return to us following the 14-day isolation requirement. We are also pleased to report that we continue to have no residents showing signs/symptoms related to Covid. We have and will continue to test our residents, who show any signs/symptoms. We believe this is in the best interest of our communi...

  September 24, 2020   Dear Residents and Families, The purpose of this letter is to communicate updates regarding our covid-19 reporting and the actions we continue to take to combat and protect our community.    Our test results from last week’s testing have been received and families have been notified. All residents who were tested on Thursday, September 17, were negative for Covid. We again tested yesterday, September 23, all residents and expect to have these second-round results back by end of this weekend. We will again notify all families with the test results. The employee who tested positive last week is asymptomatic, doing well, and is home self-isolating for 14 days. If this employee remains asymptomatic, she will return to us following the 14-day isolation requirement. We are also pleased to report that we currently have no residents showing signs/symptoms related to Covid. We have and will continue to test our residents, who show...

  September 18, 2020 Dear Residents and Families, The purpose of this letter is to communicate updates regarding our covid-19 reporting and the actions we continue to take to combat and protect our community.    In July we were testing all staff weekly for Covid with negative results each week. These results allowed our facility to go to every-other-week testing of all staff in the month of August. These results were also all negative. Due to the increase in Covid, within the County of York, the facility resumed weekly testing of all staff starting in the month of September. The first two weeks of all staff testing were all negative. The week of September 13 results identified one staff member to be positive. The facility was notified by our third party contracted lab yesterday, September 17, of this positive result. The positive employee is asymptomatic, doing well, and is currently at home in self-quarantine for the next 14 days. As a result of this pos...

July 28, 2020 Dear Residents and Families, The purpose of this letter is to communicate updates regarding our covid-19 reporting and the actions we continue to take to combat and protect our community.   We completed our fifth round of testing on Tuesday, July 21, and all results have been obtained.   The results revealed:             Residents:        All Negative             Staff:                All Negative This is the third testing cycle that results showed no new cases of Covid. We are currently finishing up our sixth round of testing today for staff only. As of this week, we will not be testing residents weekly. We will test any resident within 24 hours of showing signs/symptoms related to Covid. The Department of Health outlined a 3-Step ...

July 12, 2020 Dear Residents and Families, The purpose of this letter is to communicate updates regarding our covid-19 reporting and the actions we continue to take to combat and protect our community.   We completed our fourth round of testing on Tuesday, July 7, and all results have been obtained. The results revealed:             Residents:        All Negative             Staff:                All Negative This is the second week in a row that results showed no new cases of Covid. Our fifth round of testing will take place Monday, July 20. The Department of Health has outlined a 3-Step process outlining prerequisites that must be met before easing of current restrictions can be considered. In summary, our facility must...

July 8, 2020 Dear Residents and Families, The purpose of this letter is to communicate updates regarding our covid-19 reporting and the actions we continue to take to combat and protect our community.   We completed our fourth round of testing on Tuesday, July 7 th . As in previous weeks, we do not expect to receive test results until the weekend of July 11 th and 12 th . Late last week Governor Tom Wolf requested that any resident of the Commonwealth who travels to any of the 15 states, listed below, self-quarantine for 14 days upon return to the Commonwealth. These 15 states are currently experiencing a surge in Covid. These states are: Alabama                                        North & South Carolina Arkansas                                   ...

July 6, 2020 Dear Residents and Families, The purpose of this letter is to communicate updates regarding our covid-19 reporting and the actions we continue to take to combat and protect our community.   The facility completed our third round of testing on Tuesday, 6/30. Over the weekend of July 4-5 th , we received all test results. The third-round test results revealed:             Residents:         All Negative             Staff:                All Negative We have started our fourth round of testing and will have these tests completed by Tuesday, July 7 th, at the latest. As in previous weeks, we do not expect to receive test results until the weekend of July 11 th and 12 th . Late last week Governor Tom Wolf reques...