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Dear Carillon at Belleview Station Community,

As many of you may have heard, the entire state of Colorado is now considered a high transmission area for COVID-19. For this reason, The Colorado State Department of Health and Environment (CDPHE) has modified the mitigation guidance for all residential care facilities including assisted living and memory care once again. The purpose of this letter is to inform you of those changes that will affect you and your family. 

• All visitors, regardless of vaccination status, must keep their facemasks on at all times while in the community. Unfortunately, this means that visitors may not eat with their loved one as this requires removal of their mask. We realize this comes at a difficult time when families have asked to come to the Carillon to enjoy a holiday meal, however, visitors may not remove their masks even for meals.
• No food or drink will be served at group activities, happy hours, or other events.
• Unvaccinated visitors no longer need to schedule visits. 
• Unvaccinated visitors may not participate in group activities.
• All associates, residents and visitors should socially distance whenever possible. If both the resident and the visitor are vaccinated, they may have physical contact.
• We will no longer be asking visitors for proof of vaccination unless they desire to participate in group activities.
• We will continue to ask for documentation of vaccination for other providers who will be working with residents.
• All associates and visitors will continue to be screened at the front desk including taking temperatures and asked not to visit if they have had a recent exposure or are having any symptoms for COVID-19.
• Caregivers will be monitoring Assisted Living/Memory care residents daily for fever and symptoms of COVID-19.
• Please notify an associate right away if you have any signs or symptoms of COVID-19 including fever, malaise, sore throat, cough, congestion, nausea and vomiting, or diarrhea.
• Please continue to wash and sanitize your hands frequently throughout the day.

Residents may visit with families and friends outside of the community as always. Please be mindful of the high transmission rates in Colorado as you do. This means avoiding large crowds, masking when in groups, generally limiting your contact with others, using good handwashing, and physically distancing.

We strongly encourage all family members and friends to be vaccinated for COVID-19. Vaccines are highly effective in preventing the spread of this infection that continues to cause deaths. They have also been found to be very safe. Vaccinations are readily available at most pharmacies. If you would like assistance in arranging for a vaccination, we are happy to help you.

We will continue to stay in close communication with the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment and specialists at Denver County and to follow their direction and protocols. We will notify you as any changes are made. Please understand that our license to operate is dependent on following these guidelines.

If you have any further questions, please reach out to Carillon at Belleview Station’s Executive Director, Beth Williams, at (720) 440-8200.

Sincerely,

Tom Finley and Susie Finley, Founders and Principals

Dear Village at Belmar Community,

As many of you may have heard, the entire state of Colorado is now considered a high transmission area for COVID-19. For this reason, The Colorado State Department of Health and Environment (CDPHE) has modified the mitigation guidance for all residential care facilities including assisted living and memory care once again. The purpose of this letter is to inform you of those changes that will affect you and your family. 

• All visitors, regardless of vaccination status, must keep their facemasks on at all times while in the community. Unfortunately, this means that visitors may not eat with their loved one as this requires removal of their mask. We realize this comes at a difficult time when families have asked to come to the Village at Belmar to enjoy a holiday meal, however, visitors may not remove their masks even for meals.
• No food or drink will be served at group activities, happy hours, or other events.
• Unvaccinated visitors no longer need to schedule visits. 
• Unvaccinated visitors may not participate in group activities.
• All associates, residents and visitors should socially distance whenever possible. If both the resident and the visitor are vaccinated, they may have physical contact.
• We will no longer be asking visitors for proof of vaccination unless they desire to participate in group activities.
• We will continue to ask for documentation of vaccination for other providers who will be working with residents.
• All associates and visitors will continue to be screened at the front desk including taking temperatures and asked not to visit if they have had a recent exposure or are having any symptoms for COVID-19.
• Caregivers will be monitoring Assisted Living/Memory Care residents daily for fever and symptoms of COVID-19.
• Please notify an associate right away if you have any signs or symptoms of COVID-19 including fever, malaise, sore throat, cough, congestion, nausea and vomiting, or diarrhea.
• Please continue to wash and sanitize your hands frequently throughout the day.

Residents may visit with families and friends outside of the community as always. Please be mindful of the high transmission rates in Colorado as you do. This means avoiding large crowds, masking when in groups, generally limiting your contact with others, using good handwashing, and physically distancing.

We strongly encourage all family members and friends to be vaccinated for COVID-19. Vaccines are highly effective in preventing the spread of this infection that continues to cause deaths. They have also been found to be very safe. Vaccinations are readily available at most pharmacies. If you would like assistance in arranging for a vaccination, we are happy to help you.

We will continue to stay in close communication with the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment and specialists at Jefferson County and to follow their direction and protocols. We will notify you as any changes are made. Please understand that our license to operate is dependent on following these guidelines.

If you have any further questions, please reach out to the Village at Belmar’s Executive Director, Rebecca Norris, at (303) 351-5455.

Sincerely,

Tom Finley and Susie Finley, Founders and Principals

Dear Carillon at Belleview Station Community,

The high number of cases of COVID-19 in the Denver metro area is unfortunately reflected in the positive cases we are continuing to see in our community. We have another COVID positive associate identified late on 9/27/21. This associate is a caregiver in Monarch who has been vaccinated and is symptomatic. They are resting comfortably at home.

Residents in Monarch are considered exposed and on isolation until October 13^th. This means that we will encourage them, as much as possible, to stay in their apartments, to wear a mask, physical distance at meals.  However, we understand many of our residents may refuse.  We will be rapid testing all residents in Monarch daily and PCR testing at least weekly, twice weekly if we continue to have positive results.

Unfortunately, this means that residents that live in the Monarch neighborhood will be unable to have visitors while they are in isolation until October 13^th. This is mandated by Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment.  If you believe that your loved one who resides in Monarch is especially in need of a visit, please request one from Nikki Gabayan who will confer with our nursing staff to see if the situation qualifies as a compassionate visit determined by the state.

Thank you so much for your cooperation with these requirements. We realize this is very difficult for families and residents but are confident it will be instrumental in limiting transmission of this virus that continues to take lives.

All infection control measures will not change in assisted and independent living at this time. This means that dining and activities will continue to take place for vaccinated residents. Indoor visitation will continue as it has been. PCR testing will continue for all residents and staff on a weekly basis at least. It will increase to twice weekly if we continue to have any positive test results.

If you have any further questions, please reach out to Carillon at Belleview Station’s Executive Director, Elizabeth Girling, at (720) 440-8200.

Sincerely,

Tom & Susie Finley – Founder & Principal

Dear Carillon at Belleview Station Community,

We are writing to inform you that we have had an additional resident test positive for COVID-19 on 9/16/21. This resident is asymptomatic, was vaccinated, is in Independent Living and is not known to have exposed any residents or associates. They were identified through our surveillance testing. 

We are continuing with testing all associates and residents. We tested on Monday and, all those results have come back negative, we will wait to test again early next week. 

We are very happy to tell you that there will be no interruption to the culinary, life enrichment programming, transportation, etc. because of the positive resident.

Thank you, again, for your cooperation as we follow the requirements set forth by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment. 

As we have seen in the last several weeks, COVID-19 continues to spread at a brisk rate and even those who have been vaccinated are not totally immune. For this reason, we would like to remind you once again to be very cautious to avoid exposure. This means, wearing your mask outside of your apartment, continue to socially distance and use frequent hand washing. It also requires that you limit your exposure to larger groups outside of the community and continue to wear your mask in public places. Masking is such an easy, convenient way to prevent transmission of the virus.

We would also like to remind family members and those that love and visit with our residents to be vaccinated, avoid large crowds, and be vigilant in wearing your mask.

We will continue to stay in close communication with the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment and specialists at Denver County and to follow their direction and protocols. We will notify you as any changes are made. Please understand that our license to operate is dependent on following these guidelines.

If you have any further questions, please reach out to Carillon at Belleview Station’s Executive Director, Elizabeth Girling, at (720) 440-8200.

Sincerely,

Tom & Susie Finley – Founder & Principal

Dear Village at Belmar Community,

We are so excited to tell you that we are officially out of outbreak.  We had no new positive COVID results with our final round of testing conducted on 9/9/2021.   We want to thank you for your continued support.

The Delta variant of COVID has been found to be highly transmissible and is dramatically increasing cases across the country and in Colorado. For this reason, all residents & associates continue to be required to wear a mask when outside of their apartments.  This is a simple thing which has shown to be very effective in protection from COVID.

As always, we continue to be in close communication with the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) and Jefferson County Health Department and are following their guidelines, direction, and protocols around COVID-19.

We urge all residents to continue to limit contact with any individuals who are not fully vaccinated, and any groups, or large crowds.

If you have any further questions, please reach out to Village at Belmar’s Executive Director, Rebecca Norris, at (303) 351-5455.

Sincerely,

Tom Finley and Susie Finley, Founders and Principals

Dear Carillon at Belleview Station Community,

We are so excited to inform you that we have had no new positive COVID results on our most recent round of testing.  We want to thank everyone who has been quarantining and participating in daily testing, again, for their cooperation during this difficult time. 

In following the regulations set forth by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment we are entering Outbreak Exit Testing.   Outbreak exit testing means we reduce PCR testing of all residents and associates to one time per week for two weeks and rapid test all exposed residents and employees daily for 14 days.

Our dining room, activities, and indoor visits will remain open for all vaccinated residents.  We appreciate your continued cooperation with testing as it is critical to minimizing the spread of COVID and protecting all of you.

With the increased cases of COVID that are taking place across the country, it is very important that residents be certain to mask at all times when out of their apartment. Frequent handwashing and social distancing are also effective infection prevention measures. We also encourage residents to limit their exposure to unvaccinated individuals and avoid large groups.

We will continue to stay in close communication with the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment and specialists at Denver County and to follow their direction and protocols. We will notify you as any changes are made. Please understand that our license to operate is dependent on following these guidelines.

If you have any further questions, please reach out to Carillon at Belleview Station’s Executive Director, Elizabeth Girling, at (720) 440-8200.

Sincerely,

Tom Finley and Susie Finley, Founders and Principals