Clece Vitam has just opened the doors of its first residences for the elderly in Catalan territory. This is Clece Vitam Ceritania, a center with 76 places located in the town of Cerdanyola del Vallès.
The residence is located at Rambla de Montserrat, 2, in what used to be the old courts of Cerdanyola del Vallès. Its location in the center of the municipality allows access to all services and shops, as well as the RENFE station, which facilitates the movement of both family members and friends, as well as workers in the center.
The center has all the necessary benefits: air conditioning in the common areas, its own kitchen and laundry, nursing service, medical service, physiotherapy, occupational therapist, psychology, social work and chiropody and hairdressing services, among others. Additionally, the center has a unit for highly dependent people, rooms, both double and single, all of them with private bathroom. The ground floor has a rehabilitation room fully equipped, a dining room, hairdresser, professional offices, treatment room, activity room, as well as different areas that adapt to the different needs of residents.
The residence, which also has an exterior insulation system that improves the energy efficiency of the building itself, will create more than 40 jobs when it is fully operational. After this opening of this center, Clece Vitam plans to expand its presence in the Catalan territory with the authorization of three new residential centers in the cities of Badalona, Lleida and Tarragona.
The Clece Vitam Ceritania residence has 76 beds and is located in the town of Cerdanyola del Vallès
The opening of this center has been especially complex given the health crisis generated by the pandemic. As highlighted Beatriz Pacheco Gonzalezdirector of the center «It is evident that the pandemic, as in almost any recent project, has altered this new opening. Not only has it delayed our expected start-up timelines, but it has required a extra effort to adapt the installation, the protocols, the measurements and even the configuration of the equipment to the new reality. Likewise, COVID-19 has required us to process new administrative permits without precedents or pre-existing processing channels. Faced with a new and especially sensitive situation like this, there is always the difficulty of not leaving anything to chance, and we have not done so. About to open the center, everything is perfectly prepared”.
In fact, in compliance with the security measures and capacity restrictions determined by the competent authorities, to guarantee the safety of all those attending, the presentation ceremony for this residence has already taken place, which was attended by, among others, of Carlos Cordon, mayor of Cerdanyola del Vallès. The day was divided into several shifts so that the local agents could get to know the new space at the hands of Beatriz Pacheco; residence manager, Isabel Reneses; Head of service and manager of the Clece Vitam Ceritania project, and Albert April, manager of Clece Vitam Ceritania. The residence can be visited by any interested person, through scheduled visits, by sending an email to infoceritania@nullclecevitam.com, or by calling 618 401 254.
As Beatriz Pacheco González, director of the center, points out, « It has been conceptualized with the well-being of our users and their families in mind, for this reason we have a multidisciplinary and highly qualified human team and infrastructures designed to guarantee a totally personalized attention, integral and 360º. In addition, we have adapted the center, extreme protocols and security measuresas well as hygiene to prevent any possible contagion of COVID-19, thanks to the use of the latest disinfection technology».
In this sense, and aware of the current context, which has made it necessary to maximize protection, cleaning and disinfection measures, Clece Vitam Ceritania has the disinfection system the only technology of ultraviolet light disinfection (UVC) capable of destroying up to 99.99% of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, the cause of COVID-19, in just 2 minutes.
In addition, the center has implemented all the necessary measures to contain the risk of spreading COVID-19between them:
- Conducting a COVID-19 detection test on all residential center workers on a regular basis
- Carrying out a PCR test on all newly recruited workers, as well as on all those who return from a period of leave or vacation
- Carrying out diagnostic tests (tests) on newly admitted residents and/or transfers to the center, and preventive isolation in the event that the results are not available
- Prohibition of access to the center with symptoms compatible with COVID-19 or in case of temperatures above 37.3°
“In addition to the above measures, our protocols include a wide range of prevention and control measures: hygienic-sanitary; organizational; equipment and PPE; cleaning, disinfection and waste management; of action in case of suspected/confirmed cases of COVID-19, etc.”says Beatriz Pacheco. “For the safety of people, we will apply hospital cleaning protocols, and at all times we comply with current regulations, as well as the recommendations made by the competent authorities in order to guarantee the health and safety of all users and their families”indicates the director of Clece Vitamin Ceritania.
In this sense, Beatriz Pacheco stresses that “the Visits will be made by appointment and after performing a rapid test to the visiting person and in accordance with the instructions, in force at all times, of the Department of Health. They will be organized at times that guarantee the non-coincidence between visits and all hygiene and disinfection measures will be applied in the areas, before and after them..
Also, the center “will deliver to all the people referring to the user a circular where the applicable regulations are indicated and they are warned that in no case may they make visits if they present COVID-19 symptoms and/or if they have had close contact with a suspected, probable or confirmed case of COVID-19, in the last 14 days. The circular also reports on the prevention measures that visitors they will have to strictly follow and it will be supervised that the visitor follows the disinfection rules at their entrance to the center ».
In the center they have enabled two visiting area spaces, one of them is the reception of the center and the other the specific visiting room, where an external door has been installed that prevents the interaction of visitors through the areas of the residents. This room has a sofa for the exclusive use of visitors and another for users, guaranteeing a minimum distance of 1.5 meters between them.
Maintain contact between residents and the community
Face to promote well-being and promote active aging of its residents, the center plans to implement a totally flexible program of activities. «This is so, because in accordance with our philosophy of work and care, fully focused on the preferences and needs of each of our residentswe will offer alternatives for each person, that adapt to what they most want at all times »says the director of Clece Vitam Ceritania.
“In any case, as an urban residence, located in a privileged place such as the center of the city, we will favor daily departures, in a small group, both in the morning and in the afternoon, to shop, have a drink or simply walk through the streets. One of our premises is maintain contact of our residents with the community and the environment, beyond the programmed excursions of a more playful nature. Obviously, these outputs, only will occur when the health context allowsand it is an option foreseen both by PROCICAT and the Department of Health of the Generalitat, as well as by our protocols»says Beatriz Pacheco.