Holidays 2020

November 2020
Dear Friends and Family,

The holiday season is approaching and Mountain Valley Manor (MVM) would like to review our policy for residents this season. With concerns for COVID-19 we are being advised by the New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH) as well as local medical practitioners to discourage our residents from leaving MVM to spend the holidays with their families.
We understand that this is less than an ideal situation for both our residents and our families. If you still wish to take your loved one home for the holidays we will have to follow the following policy.
Residents who are to be taken out of MVM will have to have a request made no less than 7 days in advance. We will not accept any late requests.
A digital document will be sent to the family contact for completion no less than 7 days prior to the events. Failure to complete this document will result in MVM refusing to allow the resident to leave the facility.
Residents must be picked up by the previously scheduled family member at the pre-approved time. We will only honor a 15 minute window for pick up to allow for traffic or other circumstances. The family member scheduled will arrive at MVM, call to state they have arrived and will remain in their car until a staff person comes to greet them. At this point the driver must be masked. The family member’s temperature will be taken and logged.
Residents pick up times will be staggered as will drop off times. Residents will be required to be returned to MVM no later than 3:30pm.
Residents will be required to wear a mask during their out trip for the duration of their out trip with the exception of eating or drinking.
In accordance with Gov. Coumo’s recent executive orders, private social gatherings will be restricted to 10 persons maximum. Residents must be counted in those 10 persons and will not be allowed to leave MVM if the events will contain more persons then allowed.
Upon their return to MVM, residents will be escorted to their rooms to ready themselves for a shower. There will be no exceptions to this. After their shower, they will be placed in their rooms in isolation for up to 14 days.
On Monday November 30th, any residents in isolation will be swabbed for COVID-19. Residents will not be released from isolation until this swab is results as negative.
On Thursday Dec 3rd, MVM will contact the resident’s primary family contact to review if any persons attending the events have any symptoms consistent with COVID-19 and or have had a positive test for COVID-19 in the last 14 days.
Families may be required to provide all persons in attendance at any event’s names, addresses, phone numbers or other contact information in accordance with NYSDOH or local department of health requests.

This policy has been reviewed and put into practice in order to maintain resident, staff and family safety. We would like to allow our residents and families to celebrate the holidays together in person, however, the resident’s health is our priority at this time.

If you wish to make a request to bring your loved one home for the Thanksgiving Holiday, please contact Jennifer at 845-331-1254 Monday through Friday from 8am until 2pm no later than Thursday November 19, 2020.
Please do not hesitate to contact us with any questions.

Happy Holidays!

Yours,




Salvatore DePoala Taber McNaughton