Empowering Lives Guardianship Services LLC
ELGS is following the CDC recommendation stated May 13, 2021. That recommendation states "that fully vaccinated people no longer need to wear a mask or physically distance in any setting, except where required by federal, state, local, tribal, or territorial laws, rules, and regulations, including local business and workplace guidance."
As of July 21, 2021, Governor Roy Cooper stated that NC remains under a State of Emergency for Covid-19 and 71 of the 100 NC Counties have a mask mandate in effect. So, concerning visits, ELGS is defaulting to NC DHHS Recommendations and the Service Providers Covid-19 Protocols, whichever is more restrictive.
While it is everyone's right to decide whether of not to get vaccinated, please understand it is also the right of a residential provider or other service provider to refuse to work with an individual who has been potentially exposed to Covid-19 by unvaccinated family and/or friends until a 14 day quarantine and a negative Covid-19 test is documented. Additionally, family and/or friends traveling to NC from National Hot Spots such as Florida, may be be further restricted from face to face visits with their loved one due to the potential exposure to potential carrying of the virus to others in their residential or other congregate settings who may be at high risk.
Please feel free to speak with your guardian representative about the availability of virtual visits.
CLIENTS
Our clients vary from private pay individuals with a contract for 1 to a State contract for over 100. While at its inception, ELGS specialized in providing guardianship services for those who have MH/IDD/SA services, our clientele has grown to include individuals with a dementia diagnoses and other cognitive impairments.
TESTIMONIAL
Empowering Lives,
Just a short note to let you know how much we appreciate the service you provide to the people you serve. WesCare has provided therapeutic and residential services for several people in your care, and we are more than pleased to be partnering with Empowering Lives. All your staff seem to be very knowledgeable of the people they serve, they are always available to assist our staff in various ways. However, the thing we find most impressive is your staff’s ability to hone-in on and share pertinent information so the provider can make sound decisions in a timely fashion. Through the years, we have used Empowering Lives as our measuring stick by which to judge all others. I’m sure you will be pleased to hear, few, if any come close at all. There are very few guardianship providers who can do what you do as well as you do it for as long as you’ve done it. Please continue your inspiring service to our mutual clients.
Thank you,
Akinyele Igunmuyiwa
WesCare Professional Services LLC
printed from email received 3/15/2016, with permission
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