Seattle Massage Oasis

Update, June 2nd

Dear Clients,

Thank you so much for your patience through such a long delay since our last update. Decision making regarding reopening and guidelines for doing so has been confusing to say the least. We very much appreciate your inquiries, words of support, gift certificate purchases, and above all your loyalty and patience.

In a nutshell: We will remain closed until June 15th and reassess at that time whether we can open for urgent medial need only, or open fully (with PPE and all other DOH and CDC recommendations), or remain closed for a bit longer. If we remain closed for the time being, I anticipate reopening July 1st, but that depends on where King County is at in a couple of sets of critical numbers.

Our biggest concern is safety. We want to open, but we want to do it correctly and safely. Our priority is health, and making sure everyone has access to safe care.

How safety is being accomplished: On May 31st the Dept of Health and Jay Inslee gave us some much awaited guidance. On June 1st access the statistics that dictate our guidelines became available:

Independent of which of the 4 phases we in, massage has 3  phases, and is county by county:

• Crisis Care Phase: All emergent and urgent care can be provided.
• Contingency Care: All appropriate clinical care can be provided so long as there is sufficient access to PPE and hospital surge capacity is at least 20%.
• Conventional Care Phase: All appropriate clinical care can be provided.

Right now, King County’s hospital surge capacity meets requirements for Contingent Care Phase. We aren’t reopening quite yet because even though we are only required to go by hospital surge capacity, I think it is critical to also factor in current infection rate. In light of the recent protests with 40,000+ people gathering with no social distancing possible, I think it is very likely that King County’s infection rate is going to go up over the next week or two. How much it goes up will inform decision making as to reopening. It’s also quite possible that surge capacity will dip below required percentage and we would have to scale back. In lieu of opening prior to these numbers surfacing and cancelling appointments, we are going to wait until I can make as much of a sustainable and safe decision for everyone as possible.

I hope this helps provide clarity, as well as peace of mind for returning for massage care. Thank you again for sticking by us at this time, we really appreciate you!

Warm Regards,
Patti Abbott, LMT/owner