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1. New Health Officer Order
The LA County Department of Public Health has made their new Health Officer Order available online. The Order is for all licensed congregate healthcare facilities, defined as follows:
Adult Residential Care Facilities (ARF) all license types
Chronic Dialysis Clinics
Continuing Care Retirement Communities
Hospice Facilities
Intermediate Care Facilities of all license types
Psychiatric Health Facilities
Residential Care Facilities for the Elderly
Residential Facilities for the Chronically Ill
Skilled Nursing Facilities
Social Rehabilitation Facilities
Long-Term Care Facilities
Congregate Living Health Facilities
Nursing Facilities
The Order includes measures intended to reduce the transmission of COVID-19 in these facilities and to protect vulnerable residents, as well as staff. The measures include restricting all visitors, suspending all communal dining and activities to ensure physical distancing, and testing for all employees and residents. Staff will be required to wear surgical masks at all times and personal protective equipment when appropriate. Residents will also need to wear surgical masks or cloth face coverings when they are outside of their personal room.
2. Thank You for Staying Safer at Home
LA County urges you to continue practicing physical distancing during warm weather. Each time you stay home, you protect yourself, your neighbors, and community members from spreading COVID-19. Remember, LA County beaches and beach bike paths remain closed.
3. Art and Inspiration
Culver City Artist Laureate Alexey Steele continues to add art and inspiration to food drive donation bags as part of the Culver City Emergency Relief Food Drive. The food drive was launched by community members and City staff to help Culver City residents, over 65 or with underlying medical conditions, who don’t have the means to purchase and pick up groceries. Since its launch, many community members and companies have donated food, which is greatly appreciated! Fire Department personnel and Bike Culver City members gather the donations, PRCS staff clean, allocate and pack the food items, CERT volunteers distribute the care packages and our artist laureate adds artwork created by local children.
This week’s artwork was by El Marino 2nd grader and pack 79 Cub Scout, Leo. Along with Leo’s artwork Alexey included a beautiful poem by Dr. Janet Hoult:
As we all continue to deal with the coronavirus and the required social distancing from our families, our friends, our neighbors and others throughout Culver City, we try to find ways to deal with the lack of contact and the solitude. May I suggest we look out our windows at our trees and, if we walk outside, look and listen to what they bring to us. This poem I wrote a few years ago about Arbor Day may give you some ideas.
We have an orchestra of trees
Here in our lovely city
Each bringing its own music
And beauty to our community
With distinctive individuality
Adding color and harmony
As the sound of the tree leaves
Rustling in the wind speaks to each
Bringing beauty, calm and peace
Keep smiling beneath those masks you wear
Thank you Culver City and Take Care!
Dr. Janet Cameron Hoult, Culver City’s Honorary Artist Laureate for Poetry
The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health reminds everyone that if you are ill, even with mild symptoms, please self- isolate at home for 7 days and until you are fever and symptom free for 72 hours. If you have been in close contact with a person who has tested positive for COVID-19 or is presumed to be infected with COVID-19, you must quarantine for 14 days from your last contact with that individual. Individuals who are elderly or who have underlying health conditions may be at higher risk of serious illness and should contact their doctor as soon as they are sick. The best protection against COVID-19 is to wash your hands frequently, avoid touching your eyes, nose, and mouth with unwashed hands, self-isolate if you are sick, practice physical distancing (especially by staying at home) and wear a clean face covering when in contact with others from outside your household.
Free same-day tests are available for all LA County residents, including Culver City residents. For the general public, testing is currently available only for people with symptoms, such as fever, cough, and shortness of breath. Anyone with COVID-19 symptoms can now book a same or next day appointment.
For certain critical front-line workers, testing is available even if you are not experiencing symptoms. Front line workers include: first responders, critical government personnel, health care professionals, and grocery workers. If you are not sure whether you qualify, ask your employer for further information.
Please know the following factors do not affect eligibility for a COVID-19 test:
6. Let's make a Culver City connection and talk soon. We’ll call YOU!
We want you to know that we are here for you. If you or another Culver City resident would like a check-in call for a quick chat, let us know. Our friendly City staff are making weekly phone calls to any residents 18 and older just to say “hi," see how you are doing, or offer information and resources. You don’t need a reason—we’ll call you. If you would like to sign-up for the weekly phone call program, give us a ring at (310) 253-6890.
If you or someone you know has a non-emergency, non-medical need related to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and you would like assistance from a volunteer, please email the City or call the City’s Coronavirus Hotline at (310) 253-6890 (7:30 AM to 5:30 PM). If you email or leave a message at the Hotline after hours, please include your name, address, phone number, email address, and your need. In an emergency, please dial 9-1-1.
