No Visitors Allowed At Basking Ridge Retirement Community

BASKING RIDGE, NJ — Fellowship Senior Living in Basking Ridge is banning all visitors due to ongoing coronavirus concerns.

The decision to stop visitation at 8000 Fellowship Rd. was announced on Wednesday.

Additionally the retirement community has implemented several measures including:

• Enactment of No visitation to our Health Center except for end-of-life situations and restriction of any non-essential visitation (friends, families, etc.) to our Fellowship Village independent living community; all doors will remain secured until further notice
• Health Center Residents - Restricting non-essential packages/deliveries, no outside laundry service, and enacting social distancing during meal service and meal delivery
• Dining at Fellowship Village’s independent living community resident dining areas have been suspended and replaced with take-out with extended hours from 8:30am to 6:30pm for proper social distancing
• Recruitment of Dr. Natarajan, Infectious Disease Consultant, in conjunction with our Medical Director to provide infection control direction including treatment recommendations, surveillance, and response
• Development of an organization-wide COVID-19 plan and protocol
• Screening of all personnel, support services and patients to the Health Center and screening of essential visitors via the Main Community Entrance for risk of COVID-19 including temperature checks.
• No visitation to Fellowship Village independent living community by volunteers.
• Active, ongoing COVID-19 surveillance of all residents in our Health and Medical Centers
• Education of team members and Residents about COVID-19 transmission and adhering to precautions
• Screening of team member travel and requiring medical clearance for return to work
• Requiring team members to stay home or leave work if respiratory symptoms and/or fever appear and be tested and cleared by a physician before returning to work and monitoring of team member absenteeism
• Continued monitoring of CDC and federal and state updates about appropriate COVID-19 response
• An interdisciplinary education program about COVID-19 has been established for our team members
• Large in-person group events have been temporally suspended and live streaming has been implemented

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Eight new positive cases of the new coronavirus were reported in Somerset County on Wednesday afternoon. Gov. Phil Murphy announced that the state had 162 new positive tests on Wednesday, raising the total number of cases to 427. There were also two more deaths brings the death total to five. (See Related: NJ Coronavirus: Cases Soar By 162, Death Toll Rises To 5)

Of the eight in Somerset County, one was identified in Hillsborough. (See Related: Hillsborough Resident Tests Positive For Coronavirus)

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