As you would be aware, a COVID-19 outbreak has been identified in Greater Sydney, the Central Coast and Sydney’s Northern Beaches. As a result, NSW Public Health Unit is issuing restrictive measures to residential aged care providers that must be adhered to, in order to protect our residents, staff and the broader community.

A Public Health Order issued yesterday, Sunday 20/12/2020, requests the following:

• No visitation to residential aged care providers unless by exemption
• All staff and visitors are to wear surgical masks when on the premises of a residential aged care facility.

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As of Monday 21, December, Garrison Brassington, will be taking the reins from Renee Bognar as Manager of Residential Care (MRC) of our HIPPOCRATES residential care home in Mayfield.

Renee will be returning to Melbourne to manage one of our care homes there.

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Fronditha Care has reviewed the new directives regarding the easing of restrictions, and has considered the need to continue to minimise the risk to our elders of COVID-19. It is important not to lose sight of the fact that the pandemic is still with us.

Preventative measures remain in place and all those who visit must abide by these rules (including screening and the wearing of masks).

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Fronditha Care will be easing visitation restrictions to its residential care homes.

Click here to read the changes in restricted visitation guidelines

Fronditha Care will be easing visitation restrictions to its residential care homes.

Click here to read the changes in restricted visitation guidelines

Based on expert public health advice, National and State Directions have been issued to restrict visitor access to aged care facilities.

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Fronditha Care Thornbury care home will accept visitation from 28/10/2020

Today, 27/10/2020, Fronditha Care received a communication from the VACRC that the lockdown can be removed as of 11:59pm Tuesday 27/10/2020.
This means that from 10am tomorrow, Wednesday 28/10/2020, we will be moving to our model of restricted visitation.

Click here to read the changes in restricted visitation.

We moved to restricted visitation to our residential care homes across Melbourne from Monday 5/10/2020.

We thank you for your patience in following our appointment booking system and being compliant with our rules of restricted visitation.

Click here to read the changes in restricted visitation.

Fronditha Care will be moving its residential care homes in Victoria from voluntary lockdown to restricted visitation effective Monday 5/10/2020.

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We are pleased to inform you that the COVID-19 outbreak in our residential care home in Thornbury was declared closed by DHHS on Saturday 19/9/2020

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Voluntary Lockdown Extended until 4/10/2020 

Fronditha Care will be extending the voluntary lockdown of its residential aged care facilities in Clayton (STEYI, PRONIA & GALINI), Lower Templestowe (STORGI) and St Albans (THALPORI) until 11:59pm, Sunday 4/10/2020.

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Full Lockdown of the Thornbury Residential Aged Care facility

We are advising you that Fronditha Care’s residential care home in Thornbury has had a staff member test positive for COVID-19 on 16/9/2020.

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Voluntary Lockdown Extended until 20/9/2020

Fronditha Care will be extending the voluntary lockdown of its residential aged care facilities in Victoria until 11:59pm, Sunday 20/9/2020. We will be in touch closer to this date to inform you if this lockdown will remain. We will be led by the Victorian state government’s guidelines.

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Restricted Visitation from Monday 31/8/2020

Bearing in mind the current situation in the Newcastle area, we will be lifting the voluntary lockdown of our HIPPOCRATES facility in Mayfield and moving to restricted visitation from 10am Monday 31/8/2020.

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Fronditha Care will be extending the voluntary lockdown of its residential aged care facilities in Victoria and NSW until 11:59pm, Sunday 6/9/2020. To read the full announcement, including updates on COVID-19 testing at our care homes and Victorian Aged Care Response Centre audits conducted thus far, please click here.

In line with the current State of Disaster and Stage 4 restrictions enacted by the Victorian government on 2/8/2020, Fronditha Care will be extending the voluntary lockdown of its residential aged care facilities in Victoria until 11:59pm, Sunday 23/8/2020.

Read the full announcement here.

Consistent with Fronditha Care’s approach to err on the side of caution since the onset of the pandemic in February 2020, the management of our HIPPOCRATES care home in East Mayfield has decided to move from restricted visitation to voluntary lockdown from 6pm Friday 7/8/2020 until 6pm Sunday 23/8/2020.

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Further to additional rounds of testing undertaken by DHHS and a mobile testing team have undertaken as part of standard outbreak management protocol with all residents and staff, all test results to date have come back negative for both staff and residents.

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Important update from our CEO regarding positive COVID-19 case at Fronditha Care’s residential care facility in St Albans. Please click here to read the full announcement.

Important update from our CEO. Please clink here to read the full announcement.

Fronditha Care is implementing a series of measures to limit the risk of COVID-19 to its residential care homes. Read the full announcement from our CEO here.

The NSW Chief Health Officer has communicated new measures to Fronditha Care that must be implemented with regards to visitation to residential aged care facilities in NSW. These measures will be in effect from Saturday, 18 July 2020

Please read an important letter from our CEO regarding Covid 19.

The rapid spread of coronavirus in Victoria is a concern to all. Premier Daniel Andrews announced today that he is reimposing stage three restrictions for six weeks in metropolitan Melbourne and the Mitchell Shire to slow the rapid spread of coronavirus. These orders come into effect from 11.59PM July 8 until August 21, 2020.

The reintroduction of stage 3 stay-at-home orders directly affects all of Fronditha Care’s aged care homes and some community services programs. Read the full announcement here.

The attached letter provides vital information regarding Premier Dan Andrews announcement yesterday that Victoria will be going in to stage 3 restrictions from 11.59PM tonight.  There is increasing concern regarding the rising number of community transmitted COVID 19 cases.  As such, the attached letter also requests that you take particular actions that are within your power to support Fronditha Care to continue to protect our ageing community, particularly those residing in residential aged care homes and at the highest risk.  In anticipation of your continued support, Fronditha Care Comms & PR.

The attached letter provides vital information regarding Premier Dan Andrews announcement yesterday that Victoria will be going in to stage 3 restrictions from 11.59PM tonight.  There is increasing concern regarding the rising number of community transmitted COVID 19 cases.  As such, the attached letter also requests that you take particular actions that are within your power to support Fronditha Care to continue to protect our ageing community, particularly those residing in residential aged care homes and at the highest risk.  In anticipation of your continued support, Fronditha Care Comms & PR.

After careful consideration and both internal and external consultation, Fronditha Care will commence voluntary lockdown of its residential care facilities in St Albans and Thornbury as of 6pm, Thursday 25 June until 6pm, Sunday 12 July, to limit the risk of infection of Coronavirus to our residents and staff. Click to read the full announcement.

During this time of the COVID-19 pandemic we continue to implement measures in our service delivery to ensure the quality and safety of care for all consumers. This letter provides a reminder and update on Fronditha Care’s measures for home visits.

Rules of Restricted Visitation in Place till 19/07/20

Fronditha Care’s rules of restricted visitation, as communicated to you on 29/5/2020, will apply till 19/7/2020. It is important that you stick to your appointment times and not attempt to visit outside of those hours. If you are unwell or displaying any cold/flu, respiratory or COVID-19 related symptoms, do not enter a residential aged care facility. Click here for the full announcement.

Rules of Restricted Visitation in Place till End of June

Fronditha Care’s rules of restricted visitation, as communicated to you on 29/5/2020, continue to apply till 30/6/2020. We will communicate to you to advise you of any changes to the rule restrictions in place.

The Australian Medical Association has urged people who attended Black Lives Matter demonstrations around Australia over the weekend to consider self-isolating for 14 days to limit the risk of spreading the virus.

Following this advice and erring on the side of caution, Fronditha Care strongly recommends that if you fall into the above category, you refrain from visiting our elderly consumers in their homes or entering our residential aged care facilities for 14 days i.e. until 21/6/2020 inclusive.

Fronditha Care is doing its utmost to limit the risk of the coronavirus to protect its elderly residents and staff. We remind you that Victoria is still in a State of Emergency and will remain so until 21/6/2020.

To date, Fronditha Care has not had any cases of coronavirus reported amongst its residents and staff.

Further to feedback received from you as family members and representatives of our consumers, we will be extending the days of visitation per week to six days a week, Monday to Saturday, effective from Monday 1 June, across our residential aged care facilities in Victoria and NSW. Visitation will not be permitted Saturday 30 May.

Fronditha Care will be moving from voluntary lockdown to restricted visitation at all of its aged care facilities as of Monday 4 May 2020.

Fronditha Care has therefore made the decision to extend the voluntary lockdown across all its residential aged care facilities for another two weeks until 7pm, Sunday 3/5/2020, to limit the risk of infection of Coronavirus to our residents.

Fronditha Care has further suspended its Social Support Groups till 30/4/2020 following the restrictions imposed by the federal government to gatherings of only 2 people. Please read our latest announcement.

Η ΦΡΟΝΤΙΔΑ αναστέλλει το πρόγραμμα κοινωνικής στήριξης μέχρι την Πέμπτη 30 Απριλίου 2020, κατόπιν της ανακοίνωσης των οδηγιών από την ομοσπονδιακή κυβέρνηση σχετικά με τη συνάθροιση μόνο 2 ατόμων.  Κάντε κλικ για να την λεπτομερή ανακοίνωση.

It has now been one week since we implemented a voluntary lockdown of our residential care facilities in Melbourne and Newcastle. Fronditha Care would like to inform you that thus far there have been no cases of COVID-19 reported amongst our residents and staff.

It is with a heavy heart that Fronditha Care’s management has made the decision to suspend our social support groups for a period of 2 weeks, from Monday March 23rd 2020.

Fronditha Care will commence voluntary lockdown across all its residential care facilities as of 7pm, Thursday 19 March until 7pm, Sunday 5 April, to limit the risk of infection of Coronavirus to our residents.

By Thursday 19 March 2020, the organisation’s six Social Support Groups will have been suspended for two weeks until staff can be properly briefed and trained in new screening measures.

Η ΦΡΟΝΤΙΔΑ θα σας ενημερώνει τακτικά σχετικά με τα μέτρα που έχουμε λάβει για να προστατεύσουμε εσάς και τα αγαπημένα σας πρόσωπα από τον Κορονοϊό COVID-19.

Σας ενημερώνουμε ότι από την Τρίτη 17 Μαρτίου 2020 οι ώρες επισκέψεων μας θα περιοριστούν από τις 12 μ.μ. – 7 μ.μ.

Όταν θα εισέρχεστε σε κάποια εγκατάσταση, πρώτα απευθυνθείτε στο προσωπικό υποδοχής και απαντήστε σε μερικές απλές ερωτήσεις.

Παρακαλείσθε όπως διαβάσετε την σχετική ανακοίνωση σχετικά με το πλάνο αντιμετώπισης του  COVID-19.

Fronditha Care will be communicating with you regularly to update you on measures we are taking to protect you and your loved ones in our residential care facilities against the spread of COVID-19. As of Tuesday 17/3/2020 our visiting hours will be restricted from 12pm – 7pm.

As you enter a facility, present yourself to our reception staff first to answer some simple questions.

Please read our latest announcement re our COVID-19 management plan.

In our efforts to maintain Fronditha Care’s good track record of high-quality infection control practices, we are proactively minimizing unnecessary exposure to our vulnerable consumers, our valuable and caring staff and volunteers, family members of consumers and other stakeholders.