An update about IRT Tarrawanna Aged Care Centre

28 October 2021

Dear family member/resident representative

Thank you for your ongoing support.

As you know all residents and staff were tested again yesterday. I’m pleased to let you know that all results were negative. Residents will be tested again tomorrow and we appreciate their patience with this process.

In other pleasing news two more of our residents are now considered recovered, having reached the criteria of 14 days since their positive swab and three days with no symptoms.

We continue to care for 13 residents with COVID-19 at the care centre and we are optimistic that in the coming days more will be considered recovered.

Despite these pleasing results some of our residents remain challenged by their symptoms and we are continuing to monitor them closely with support from the Virtual Community Care team.

We also remain diligent with our infection control measures and remain focussed on ensuring the risk of further infection is managed in accordance with our outbreak management plan and in consultation with all relevant health authorities.

Our residents enjoyed yesterday’s Oktoberfest theme and the special menu created by our Catering team.

Today we will distribute hand-made cards to all residents from the children of Bungalow Early Learning Centre. The children have also prepared a special video for residents which will be shared with them today in their rooms. We hope to share it with you too via email in the coming days.

This children’s group have established a great relationship with many of our residents and together they have enjoyed Zoom get-togethers and story times; as well as face to face visits before the pandemic impacted regular visiting to the care centre. For your interest here are photos of some of the cards being delivered today.