Friendship Village Senior Services’ Update and Response to COVID-19 as of Tuesday, June 9th, 2020
Dear Friends, Residents and Families of Friendship Village:
We are pleased to write to you from Friendship Villages on this Tuesday, June 9th, 2020.
This will be the final daily update provided on this website for the foreseeable future. Periodic updates will be provided as situations and conditions change.
By God’s grace, we remain COVID-19-free among all Residents at all levels of care in Chesterfield and Sunset Hills. At the current time, no Residents on either campus have active COVID-19, including skilled nursing, assisted living and independent living. While we have momentarily eradicated the coronavirus from our Villages, the battle is not over. Risk is still all around us and we must continue to do what we have learned to do to avoid the virus and prevent its spread. We trust our residents to practice what they know.
Plans are being made to accommodate outside/outdoor visits for skilled nursing facilities and assisted living. Please contact those facilities for details when they become available.
Work is also being done to loosen some restrictions for independent living residents on both campuses and these announcements will be made to residents before the week is out. We are excited for what is in store for our residents after all these weeks.
Plans have been made for periodic blanket testing of skilled nursing facility Residents and Staff.
As always, we sincerely thank you for your continued prayers and support.
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:
- Wear your mask
- Maintain social distancing
- Do not make physical contact
- Residents use hand-sanitizer when coming back inside
- Residents allow the door screeners to take their temperature at least once each day if visiting outside
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.