Newsletters
November 2020
Welcome to the Newsletter
This is a Covid free Newsletter - for Covid 19 information sees the updates here
Although this Newsletter is on the website, you will still be sent your relatives Care Report, the Registration Form (see below) and a Survey. It would be great to get a lot of the surveys back. These will come through via email in coming days for those who have given us their email address.
From the previous Newsletter:
Expansion
We expect to start actual work on the 15 bed extension in February 2021. We had a long session with the Architect this week finagling details of fittings and tweaking the rooms a little. The first stage is to set up the new kitchen and laundry in part of what is currently the Community Centre and join the 2 buildings together. It is expected that all up it will take around 14 months before we are ready to admit – all being well. So that should be roughly April or May 2022.
Grant
After being delayed by you know what, the painting recommenced a few weeks ago and is almost complete. After Christmas we will start scheduling the floor covering replacements.
50th Anniversary.
We will be rescheduling all the celebrations for sometime in 2021 – once again after we get past Christmas.
Contact Numbers
We are sending each of you a copy of your resident’s Registration Form. If you could review the various details and make alterations on the back and send it back to us with the Survey, that would be great. If there are no changes, don’t do anything. You can of course email back if you would prefer also.
Reminders
New Clothes
Need to be handed to Reception so that they can be labelled before going to the resident’s room.
Care Plans
Don’t forget you can also review your relative’s Care Plan at any time. The only reason it isn’t included with the Care Report is that the format is best explained in person by a RN.
News
Christmas
Christmas is on! We will be contacting everyone over the next couple of weeks to ask who will be going out for Christmas dinner and tea and who won’t. We are happy to offer the usual option of up to 3 guests if you are unable to take your relative out. The cost for visitors is $40.00 and while we supply basic alcohol we have a BYO licence so bring whatever you fancy.
One tiny Covid thing. Back in July the federal Govt decided to give certain aged care staff a retention bonus. This was based on a sliding scale of how many hours they worked. It was then repeated in September and will be again in January 2021. The big issue for us, was that it only applied to personal carers and nurses – as though other staff were not just as important to resident care. I proposed, and the Board were only too happy to agree, to pay the rest of the staff the same bonuses ourselves and they will receive the first two in December and the third in January when the government pays for the others. We think it only fair that everyone should get it.
NBN
We have been receiving a number of letters from NBN reminding people that their current service will expire as of 15th January 2021.
If your resident has a phone or the internet in their room, and you have not yet set up the NBN on their behalf, please be aware their service may not work after the above date, unless you organise for the NBN to be connected to the resident’s current service. After this date, your current non-NBN service will be disconnected and you will need to pay a fee to have it reconnected.
Our building is NBN ready, all you need to do is contact your service provider and organise for NBN to be connected.
(Please be aware that Gorrinn Village cannot set up, alter, organise, change or cancel resident’s phone, internet or NBN services – these services are independent of us, as a contract between the resident and the telecommunication service provider.)
- Robyn Woods-Gebler, CEO/RN
Welcome to the Newsletter
This is a Covid free Newsletter - for Covid 19 information sees the updates here
Although this Newsletter is on the website, you will still be sent your relatives Care Report, the Registration Form (see below) and a Survey. It would be great to get a lot of the surveys back. These will come through via email in coming days for those who have given us their email address.
From the previous Newsletter:
Expansion
We expect to start actual work on the 15 bed extension in February 2021. We had a long session with the Architect this week finagling details of fittings and tweaking the rooms a little. The first stage is to set up the new kitchen and laundry in part of what is currently the Community Centre and join the 2 buildings together. It is expected that all up it will take around 14 months before we are ready to admit – all being well. So that should be roughly April or May 2022.
Grant
After being delayed by you know what, the painting recommenced a few weeks ago and is almost complete. After Christmas we will start scheduling the floor covering replacements.
50th Anniversary.
We will be rescheduling all the celebrations for sometime in 2021 – once again after we get past Christmas.
Contact Numbers
We are sending each of you a copy of your resident’s Registration Form. If you could review the various details and make alterations on the back and send it back to us with the Survey, that would be great. If there are no changes, don’t do anything. You can of course email back if you would prefer also.
Reminders
New Clothes
Need to be handed to Reception so that they can be labelled before going to the resident’s room.
Care Plans
Don’t forget you can also review your relative’s Care Plan at any time. The only reason it isn’t included with the Care Report is that the format is best explained in person by a RN.
News
Christmas
Christmas is on! We will be contacting everyone over the next couple of weeks to ask who will be going out for Christmas dinner and tea and who won’t. We are happy to offer the usual option of up to 3 guests if you are unable to take your relative out. The cost for visitors is $40.00 and while we supply basic alcohol we have a BYO licence so bring whatever you fancy.
One tiny Covid thing. Back in July the federal Govt decided to give certain aged care staff a retention bonus. This was based on a sliding scale of how many hours they worked. It was then repeated in September and will be again in January 2021. The big issue for us, was that it only applied to personal carers and nurses – as though other staff were not just as important to resident care. I proposed, and the Board were only too happy to agree, to pay the rest of the staff the same bonuses ourselves and they will receive the first two in December and the third in January when the government pays for the others. We think it only fair that everyone should get it.
NBN
We have been receiving a number of letters from NBN reminding people that their current service will expire as of 15th January 2021.
If your resident has a phone or the internet in their room, and you have not yet set up the NBN on their behalf, please be aware their service may not work after the above date, unless you organise for the NBN to be connected to the resident’s current service. After this date, your current non-NBN service will be disconnected and you will need to pay a fee to have it reconnected.
Our building is NBN ready, all you need to do is contact your service provider and organise for NBN to be connected.
(Please be aware that Gorrinn Village cannot set up, alter, organise, change or cancel resident’s phone, internet or NBN services – these services are independent of us, as a contract between the resident and the telecommunication service provider.)
- Robyn Woods-Gebler, CEO/RN