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May 28, 2020 at 5:30 p.m.

Dear Pine Grove Crossing Community,

We wanted to get a note out to all of you to touch base and provide some updates.  First and foremost, we are pleased to report that we have not had any additional symptomatic residents or associates.  The one associate who tested positive continues to recover at home and we look forward to welcoming this person back to the community once we obtain two negative test results.  

We are establishing a testing protocol that will involve regular testing of all associates and will share that plan with all of you once it is established.

Based on the time that has elapsed without any new instances of symptomatic or positive residents or associates, we feel comfortable in beginning to relax our guidelines and allow residents to once again travel out of their apartments to common areas of the community as long as they wear a mask and maintain social distancing.  We are also working on several other initiatives that we hope to roll out in the next few weeks that will allow for some interactions between our residents and their family members.

Please be advised that if we do encounter another positive resident or associate, we would likely reinstitute the travel out of apartment restrictions to prevent the spread of infection.  Additionally, allowing residents to travel through the community would require us to cast a wider net if contact tracing needed to be done again.

We are also excited to announce that we have established a Pine Grove Crossing Hotline for future updates.  This line will regularly have recorded messages to keep all of you informed and updated.  The phone number for this hotline is (720) 874-9097.  These messages will start on June 1^st and we will be discontinuing our written updates in lieu of the recorded messages.

If you have any further questions, please reach out to Pine Grove Crossing’s Executive Director, Rita Waxon. 

Sincerely,

Tom Finley and Susie Finley

Dear Pine Grove Crossing Community,

We are deeply saddened to provide this update on the resident who tested positive for COVID-19 on May 11^th.  We were hoping to welcome that resident back to Pine Grove Crossing after a hospital stay, but we were informed this morning that this beloved resident passed away. This resident was admitted to the hospital on May 12^th after experiencing symptoms related to COVID-19 along with other pre-existing conditions. The hospital has not released to us the impact of the virus on the passing of this resident. Our community mourns the loss of the resident, and all of our thoughts and prayers go out to the family and loved ones.    

We also want to update you on the second round of contact tracing, and test results. We are pleased to report that we received forty-nine COVID-19 test results yesterday and today for residents and associates, and all of these results were negative.  Of the 102 test results we have received from our first and second rounds of contact tracing, there has only been the single positive from an associate that we reported to you in the May 13^th update letter.  

We are beginning to receive guidance from federal and state authorities about the new normal for senior living communities as we as a country and state begin to move from one phase of this pandemic to the next. As those guidelines are established, we will work within them to establish our own protocols to keep our residents, associates and families safe, which has been, and will continue to be, our primary goal and focus. For now, this would include having Assisted Living residents continue to isolate in their apartments and continue to have the staff escort them for walks, window visits and other requests.  

If you have any further questions, please reach out to Pine Grove Crossing’s Executive Director, Rita Waxon. 

Sincerely,

Tom and Susie Finley – Founder and Principal

Dear Pine Grove Crossing Community,

We write this letter to update you on the continued second round of contact tracing, and test results.  We are pleased to report that we received sixteen COVID-19 test results today from the lab for residents and associates, and all of these results were negative.  Of the test 53 test results we have received yesterday and today, there has only been the single positive from an associate that we reported to you in yesterday’s update letter.  

We completed our second round of contact tracing today, which revealed that there were 48 additional residents and associates that required testing.  We will be performing all of these tests soon, and expect to have results for this grouping of tests returned by the end of the day on Tuesday.  

We again appreciate your patience and support as we continue to methodically work through this situation.  We will continue to update you as more information becomes available.  

If you have any further questions, please reach out to Pine Grove Crossing’s Executive Director, Rita Waxon. 

Sincerely,

Tom Finley and Susie Finley