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A Message from Bethany Village Executive Director Brian Grundusky
Bethany Village is proud to be part of Asbury Communities, an aging services provider with a 90-plus year legacy of redefining the expectations of aging. Ensuring that we provide a safe and healthy environment for those who work and live at our communities is our highest priority.
This page is meant to be a helpful resource regarding Bethany Village’s operations. Asbury serves approximately 4,300 residents at eight continuing care retirement communities and home care agencies in Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Tennessee. Here’s how to …
Campus Visitation
Click here to view our latest communication about visitation and screening.
Click here to view Asbury’s Visitation Guidelines.
In addition to continuously monitoring and abiding by the recommendations put forth by the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), we will continue to inform visitors of the local COVID-19 transmission rate in the surrounding community. Current infection rate for Cumberland County: 18.8%.
Screening & Masking
The Oaks Skilled Nursing
Visitation is permitted in The Oaks Skilled Nursing.
Masks are required in community indoor common areas for all residents and guests of The Oaks Skilled Nursing. This applies to all residents and guests, even those who are vaccinated. Associates will continue to be required to wear masks.
MapleWood Assisted Living
MapleWood Assisted Living is open for visitation, as well as window and virtual visits. To schedule a virtual visit, please contact Alex Borkowski at Aborkowski@asbury.org or 717-591-8372.
Masks are required in community indoor common areas for all residents and guests of MapleWood Assisted Living. This applies to all residents and guests, even those who are vaccinated. Associates will continue to be required to wear masks.
Residential Living
Due to the updated CDC county-level transmission guidelines, we have made the decision to lift the mask requirement for Residential Living residents (and Residential Living visitors) in the Residential Living areas. Please note that this mask change is for Residential Living only at this time.
All Bethany Village associates will continue to be required to wear a mask. This includes associates who work in Residential Living.
Residents may have guests at their home with no time limit. Please ensure that you can maintain 6 feet of physical distancing in your home. Prior to inviting any visitors, please check the PA COVID-19 Travelers Info page here, health.pa.gov/topics/disease/coronavirus/Pages/Travelers.aspx, to ensure any visitors you plan to host have followed the state guidance on travelers (you can also view travel-related FAQs on the webpage).
Residents no longer need to screen in and out when leaving campus. Fully vaccinated Residential Living Residents will not have to screen-in when using the internal dining areas, beauty salon, fitness center and pool. However, unvaccinated residents need to be screened to utilize these on-campus venues.
We are also asking that residents who are planning on taking an overnight or extended trip check in with administration to ensure that the proper protocols are taken during that trip. We will still have the self -quarantine process in place for those times that residents are at risk. If a resident has a question about their trip or this process, please call John Bowen 717-591-8081.
Residents who are not fully vaccinated must self-quarantine for a full 7 days after return from travel – or 11 day if they do not complete the following testing protocol. They may discontinue self-quarantine if they are asymptomatic and have obtained a PCR COVID-19 test 5 or more days after return.
Resident recovered from COVID-19 in the last 90 days: testing and quarantine is not recommended.
Community Services & Amenities
Dining Services
To place an order for delivery, please call 717-591-8329.
Springfield’s Dining Room (Reservations required; call 717-591-8329)
Collegiate Cafe (Take-Out only)
John & Annie’s Bistro
Clyde’s Pub
These dining venues are now open to any fully vaccinated Residential Living visitors.
Wellness Services
The Fitness Center and pool are open. A range of classes are available via the Bethany Village TV station on Channel 956, including live classes and events. In addition, we have started outdoor classes with appropriate distancing and masking and continue to schedule one-on-one consultations. We have also re-implemented access to the outside community (pool and wellness center). These members will need to follow the screening and masking guidelines if not fully vaccinated. For a current schedule or more information call Justin Margut at 717-591-8368.
Residential Common Areas & Amenities
Mail & Online Grocery Delivery
COVID-19 Testing
Testing is an important component of our COVID-19 prevention strategy. We are pleased to share some outstanding results for Bethany Village and the Asbury system. To date, Asbury has conducted just over 160,307 COVID-19 tests at our communities with a positivity rate of just 1 percent. This compares to a national positivity rate of 9.2 percent. At Bethany Village, we have conducted 13,036 tests with a positivity rate of just 1.2 percent.
Daily updated reports on COVID-19 cases can be found here.
The Oaks Skilled Nursing: State and federal agencies have implemented new associate testing guidelines for all skilled nursing centers, which looks at active on-site cases and the county case ratio. Based on the current positivity rate for Cumberland County, we are testing associates weekly. Residents are monitored daily for any signs identified as potentially symptomatic of COVID-19 per CDC guidelines.
MapleWood Assisted Living: State and federal agencies have implemented new associate/employee testing guidelines for all assisted living centers, which looks at active on-site cases and the county case ratio. Based on the current positivity rate for Cumberland County, we are testing associates weekly. Residents are monitored daily for any signs identified as potentially symptomatic of COVID-19 per CDC guidelines.
Residential Living: A resident who believes they may have been exposed to COVID or is showing symptoms recognized by the CDC as being possible markers of COVID-19, should contact their physician for testing or visit a local testing center. Please also notify Doreen Mank, 717-591-8013, or John Bowen, 717-591-8081, so that we may begin contact tracing on campus.
Important Contact Information
Main Reception: 717- 766-0279
Virtual Visit Coordinators:
Executive Director Brian Grundusky: 717-591-8027, bgrundusky@asbury.org
Director of Social Services John Bowen: 717-591-8081, jrbowen@asbury.org
Administrator MapleWood Assisted Living Bridget Walling: 717-591-8091, bwalling@asbury.org
Administrator the Oaks Skilled Nursing Henri Lively: 717-591-8003, hlively@asbury.org
Asbury Home Services Director Chris Miller: 717-591-8332, chmiller@asbury.org
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