Denver Newsroom, August 1, 2020 / 6:01 am Mt Matrix (CNA): In Washington state, one of the first coronavirus hotspots in the United States, an empty Catholic retreat center will temporarily become a quarantine center for coronavirus patients, the Diocese of Spokane announced.
By February, cancellations were already piling up through Americans and retirement teams making plans for the Immaculate Heart Retreat Center, just south of Spokane.
“We were about a significant loss of profit,” Michael Pallardy, IHRC’s progression officer, told CNA.
The retreat center officially closed its doors in March and, as of June, it became transparent that the center would have to cancel all its withdrawals and occasions for the rest of the calendar year. While Deacon John Ruscheinsky, Director of IHRC, and his team developed a long-term strategy of the center in light of the coronavirus pandemic, he won an unforeseen offer from Dr. Bob Lutz, Clinical Director of the Spokane Regional Health District.
Lutz proposed that, in partnership with East Washington Catholic Charities and IHRC, the retirement center can only be used temporarily as a quarantine facility for others with COVID-19. “Then deacon John Mashinsky went to see Bishop Daly and told the bishop what he proposed and asked the bishop, what do you think? Pallardy said.” And the bishop gave him his blessing and said, “Come in, see if this can happen.”
“I would like to thank all stakeholders for the professional way they have approached this transitional transition from the IHRC from the retirement center to a quarantine center,” Bishop Daly said as he delivered the change. “Please sign up for my prayer for your success. Array May Our Lady of Lourdes consultant our efforts to help others who need it.”
Open for more than 60 years, Immaculate Heart Retreat Center has 64 bedrooms in the main building, kitchen and dining room, and serves more than 7,000 retirees a year. The plan is to separate symptomatic patients and asymptomatic patients at the center, Noted Pallardy.
He added that it is “obvious” to allow the use of the retirement center for this purpose, because “part of our project is to help. The Immaculate Heart is a position where others come for hope, peace, and healing, and how can we help the most productive help for those who suffer from this disease, but to help them heal and in a position of prayer and peace?
Pallardy said the paintings had already begun to turn the retreat center into a quarantine site: more security cameras, air conditioning and other updates are taking place, and since the Catholic Health District and charities are moving while the retreat center has been running from Home. The contract with the Spokane Regional Health District stipulates that the retirement center will be used as a quarantine site until the end of December, when the agreement will be passed to the month in accordance with the wishes of the community, Pallardy. he told me.
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