Dear Friends, Residents and Families of Friendship Village:
Rain is in store, but spirits are high at Friendship Villages on this Thursday, June 4th, 2020.
Our Chesterfield skilled nursing facility anticipates that, by the end of the day, there will be one remaining Resident in the COVID Care Center and then, God willing, that person will graduate tomorrow (Friday), leaving ZERO residents with and recovering from COVID-19. We are awaiting one additional test done on an asymptomatic resident, currently, that was taken as a precaution. We pray that their test comes back negative, as well. There are no Residents in independent living with COVID-19. There remains only one employee still under quarantine at home. All others have recovered and are back at work, and we thank God for that. As mentioned in earlier reports, we will be conducting periodic re-testing for all in our efforts to continually monitor for the presence of the coronavirus.
Our Sunset Hills skilled nursing facility has one remaining resident who is positive for COVID-19 who is doing well and isolated in a private room and being cared-for by well-trained staff. All residents and nearly all staff have been tested and no others have been reported as positive at this time. Periodic re-testing will be conducted similarly to Chesterfield. No residents or staff in independent living or assisted living are positive for COVID-19, and we are thankful for this continued status.
We pray that all recovery continues and everyone is back to health very soon as we achieve our goal of getting back to zero.
Visitor Policy Modified
We do, now, allow visitors to Independent Living Residents on campus for OUTSIDE/OUTDOOR visits with Residents. Visits with Assisted Living and Skilled Nursing facilities must still be coordinated in advance with those administrations.
Visitors are still prohibited from coming indoors to visit.
To still maintain COVID-19 preventive measures, we ask that you and your visitors:
Our Residents have done very well with the preventive measures they have been following for more than two months and we feel that we can safely lift this restriction if the preventive measures listed above continue to be followed.
We’re excited! We hope you are, too!
Gift-Giving in Appreciation of our Staff is Open on our FriendshipVillageSTL.com website:
Many family members and Residents have inquired as to how to donate a gift of appreciation for the staff for their service during the time of the COVID-19 pandemic. Our website at FriendshipVillageSTL.com now has an easy-to-use tab to use in making contributions for the staff and we thank all of you for considering a gift. As funds are collected, we will identify the best use of those funds in order to do the most that can be done for our employees. Every gift is appreciated, large and small.
Our teams have received many generous contributions from YOU! We are working excitedly on ways to express your support and appreciation to the staff as soon as we possibly can. There have already been some pizzas and sandwiches, delightfully enjoyed, funded by our donors, and there will be more to come. We can always give them more!
As always, all of us thank you all for your continued prayers as we continually ask our Lord Jesus Christ to enable us to do our best to fend-off the COVID-19 coronavirus and to maintain the safety and protection of our Residents and staff.