Good Shephard Villas. (submitted photo/goldenhealthcare.ca)

By Glenn Hicks

covid-19

COVID outbreak declared at P.A. care home

Dec 14, 2020 | 4:19 PM

The provincial government is reporting a COVID-19 outbreak at Good Shephard Villas care home in Prince Albert.

The information was posted on the government’s update page, dated Saturday Dec.12.

An outbreak is declared when two or more people test positive for COVID-19 and these are then posted publicly for the likes of hospitals, long-term care and integrated facilities and personal care homes.

The government update page later listed the case count at five people – staff and residents.

paNOW has contacted Good Shephard Villas for comment.

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According to the website for Golden Health Care, which operates the facility, it has the capacity for 80 residents.

Meanwhile, Timanaska Development Corporation, which has offices in Prince Albert, also had an outbreak.

Five office workers were quarantined until Dec.18, according to Orrin Greyeyes, the president and CEO.

“Everyone is working from home,” he told paNOW.” We’ve basically shut it down for the rest of the year. We have a fairly large amount of employees working across the province but only a few people were affected in our office.”

Greyeyes said everyone affected is in good health.

He said Timanaska Development Corporation has over a dozen companies under its umbrella.

One of them — Northern Medical Supplies Corp. — supplies personal protective equipment like masks and protective suits.

Editor’s note: this story was amended Tuesday Dec.15, to reflect the case count for the outbreak at Good Shephard Villas at five people.

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