Dear Legacy Family,

As you have probably seen in the news, some cities, counties and states are beginning to loosen COVID-19 restrictions as it relates to re-opening the economy, including, extending number limit recommendations on group gatherings. We at Legacy Retirement Communities continue to work to ensure the health, safety and wellbeing of our residents, associates and family members while also being responsible members of our community. While some of the restrictions placed on the population at large begin to loosen, this may be a time of even greater concern and susceptibility to our Legacy patients and residents residing in our senior living communities. The guidelines and recommendations put into place by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and state and local health departments have not changed at this time for senior living communities. To safeguard our residents and staff we will continue to operate with the restrictions that are currently in place. These safeguards and restrictions include:

Visitation Restrictions

• Only essential visitors will be permitted to enter the community. Essential is defined as medically necessary or certain compassionate care and end of life situations. Essential visitors will be limited to two per resident.
• All visitors will be screened for signs and symptoms of illness or potential exposure to COVID-19 or other communicable diseases.
• To facilitate contact with residents, we recommend frequent telephone calls, FaceTime, video calls and other available means of communication.

Community Safeguards

• Meals will be served in the resident’s apartment. The community will care plan for residents with special dining needs (including memory care) and when needed, arrange for service in the dining room with appropriate social distancing (6ft apart) precautions in place.
•  Recreation programs will be provided in a way to limit close contact with others. All recreation supplies will be properly sanitized between use.
• To protect the health and safety of all, associates are screened daily for signs and symptoms of illness and potential exposure to COVID-19.

The following safeguards are also in place for those that may have immediate needs for our services, or for those that may have been away from our communities.

All new residents moving in, as well as existing residents that may have been away from our community for any reason, including hospitalization, rehabilitation and/or away from the community for any other type of extended leave of absence, must be tested for COVID-19 and receive a negative result prior to move-in or return to our community. COVID-19 testing should be administered no more than four days prior to move-in or return to our community. Following testing, the new resident will be advised to self-isolate (as part of testing procedure) prior to move-in. After move-in or return to our community, resident will be placed on a 14-day quarantine and will be monitored closely for signs and symptoms of COVID-19. If there are any concerns, continued isolation and/or retesting may occur. The resident will then be assessed at the end of the 14-day quarantine to verify that the quarantine can be lifted.

As always, we are very appreciative of the trust you place in Legacy Retirement Communities and the services we provide. Let’s all continue to work together taking safeguards both inside and outside of our communities to ensure our resident’s safety, happiness and wellbeing. The efforts of each one of us are important. Please direct any questions you may have to your Executive Director.