Covid Information
At As Lodge Nursing Home, we are doing everything we can to keep our residents and staff safe. The safety of our residents of the utmost importance and is always at the heart of everything we do. The Home is even more thoroughly cleaned and cleaning practices are constantly reviewed alongside the up to date government guidelines. Hand Sanitisers and PPE dispensers have been sited along the corridors and the entrance to our Home. All carpets have been replaced with hard flooring to enable deep cleaning and normal taps have been replaced with long lever medical elbow taps. Our Home is unique offering 70 well equipped bedrooms, 4 lounge/diners all leading from one corridor on ground floor and one corridor on the first floor.

Our main priority
Throughout the Covid-19 Pandemic has been to protect our residents and our staff. Because of this, we have put in place some extremely robust procedures to ensure the risk of Covid-19 for our residents and to our colleagues is minimised.  Our Staff are tested weekly and Residents monthly. This rigorous COVID-19 testing process enables us to track and report on data trends with clear guidelines on steps to take should there be any positive results or adverse spikes in the data.

Our Staff are already in receipt of training in infection control/infectious diseases.
As a company, we have invested in infection control around COVID-19 donning and doffing of protective equipment.

We are taking all the necessary precautions to ensure the optimum safety of our employees , residents and local community, but we also rely on you to help us protect our most vulnerable residents by staying at home.
We are continuing to closely monitor the government advice daily and will remove these restrictions as soon as it is safe to do so.
Our home has access to the internet, phone lines, Skype and WhatsApp where you can keep in touch with your loved ones at all times.

PPE
There has been much in the media about personal protective equipment (PPE), we are fortunate that we are and will remain well stocked with all items needed to continue to keep our residents and teams safe throughout the Coronavirus crisis. These include face visors, face masks, gloves and aprons. A number of PPE dispensers and Hand sanitizers have been sited along all corridors and at the entrance to our Home.

Activities
We have continued with social activities, baking, gardening, painting, drawing, reminiscing, hand and foot massage, visiting our pub( The lockdown inn) which has been especially built in the garden. This has proven very popular with our residents. Social distancing is paramount during any of our activity programmes.

Regular contact with the Regulator.
Regular Contact with the Care Quality Commission (CQC), ensuring we are adhering to the Care Quality Commissions Emergency Support Framework and any updates.

New care enquiries
We are still accepting admissions, and those looking for care should contact us here.

Keeping life as normal as possible.
We want to reassure you that, whilst we are doing our best to keep care home life as normal as possible for residents, we are continuing to assess the situation nationally and locally, and to put in place measures to reduce the risk of the virus inadvertently being brought into the home.

Please visit our Facebook page for the latest updates on activities in the Home. We of course ensure that vital medical visits are still made whenever required.

– Are there any restrictions on visiting times or numbers of visitors?
Restrictions are around LFT testing, most of our visitors are now testing at home before arrival to Ash lodge, test results are required to be registered and test results shown to member of staff before entry. All other LFT testing is conducted in a POD and overseen by a qualified member or staff, POD visits are by appointment only. We ask a maximum of 3 persons per resident to enable staff to accommodate space, numbers can be increased with notice to Ash Lodge Care Home.

Restrictions are around LFT testing, most of our visitors are now testing at home before arrival to Ash lodge, test results are required to be registered and test results shown to member of staff before entry. All other LFT testing is conducted in a POD and overseen by a qualified member or staff, POD visits are by appointment only. We ask a maximum of 3 persons per resident to enable staff to accommodate space, numbers can be increased with notice to Ash Lodge Care Home.

– Is there a space for residents to spend time with visitors?
Visitors are currently visiting in the Residents bedrooms, visitors are not restricted to the length of time for their visit.

– Are families encouraged to be involved in the life of the home?
Residents / Families are very much involved in the care planning, every care plan is individual to each Resident.