Mission of Westfield Quality Care of Aurora

This has been a very good week for nursing facilities, residents, visitors, and staff. We are allowed to stop masking in the facility as long as our county covid positivity rate is not high. We will be checking this information every Thursday as there is a particular site that is used for healthcare. We will have this information posted if a mask is required or not. There will be more information and changes coming in next weeks update. Thank you to everyone that has so diligently masked up for visiting residents, I am so thankful that regulations are loosening up, it has been a long 3 ½ years.

This week Westfield celebrated pirates. Residents dressed like pirates and completed activities that were related to pirates. International Talk Like A Pirate Day is being celebrated worldwide on September 19th. This started out as joke between two friends and quickly turned into a global celebration after the American columnist Dave Barry wrote a column about it in the Miami Herald. The residents will end the week watching Pirates of the Caribbean.

Today I can report good news! We were able to open the hallway doors today. Residents that had to move from their room were able to move back to their own room. Residents were able to eat lunch in the dining rooms again, it was great to have the residents be able to move about the facility again. It feels like we are back to our new normal and it is wonderful to be able to see the residents again.