Dear Parents/Caregivers,
We would like to take this
opportunity to wish you a Happy New Year. We hope that you are all managing to
stay safe and well during these ongoing difficult times. We have been closely
monitoring the current situation nationwide in relation to COVID-19 and given
the current high level of community infection as well as the pressure on the
health services as a whole, we have made the difficult decision to stop
providing intervention sessions for the coming weeks and only provide
assessments.
This allows us to reduce the
number of close contacts for each therapist as well as to stagger the times
that staff will be in the clinic. As per advice provided by NPHET, a reduction
in close contacts will help reduce the risk of infection for all clients and
staff and their families.
All therapy appointments that
have thus far been scheduled for January 2021 will now be cancelled and
rescheduled at a later date. Each individual therapist will create a
prioritised waitlist for clients they had booked in for intervention and will
personally be in contact with you regarding rescheduling of appointments for
the soonest possible dates this year once it is deemed safe to do so.
All our therapists will continue
to work from home when they are not involved in assessments and will be
available to provide telehealth in the form of Zoom Parental Consults/phone
calls should you require support/strategies/intervention home programmes during
this period of time. You can set this up with your therapist via email should
you require it.
The safety of our clients, staff and
their families is our top priority and we are hopeful with the commencement of
the national vaccination programme that we will be able to resume a full
service safely as soon as we can. We would like to thank you for your ongoing
support and apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.
Kind
Regards
The
Sunflower Clinic