A resident who previously tested positive for COVID-19 has died at Salina Presbyterian Manor.
“The entire Salina Presbyterian Manor family is mourning today,” said Christian Gilbert, executive director. “It is always difficult to lose one of our beloved residents, and our hearts are broken.”
Salina Presbyterian Manor will continue to follow guidance from the Saline County Health Department in managing the COVID-19 outbreak at the senior living community.
The campus is now conducting routine surveillance testing of employees twice a week due to Saline County’s positivity rate reaching 10 percent. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) requires surveillance testing of all employees, agency employees, volunteers, hospice, lab and therapy providers at the facility to be tested for COVID-19 on a frequency determined by our county’s COVID-19 testing positivity rate.
Employees are being tested today for the first of two rounds of testing this week, Salina Presbyterian Manor noted in a news release.