Henrico,Va-nursing home COVID-19 outbreak: 127+ positive, 46+ dead

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Henrico nursing home COVID-19 outbreak: 37 positive, 8 dead


Posted: 10:28 AM, Mar 29, 2020

Updated: 6:19 PM, Mar 29, 2020
By: WTVR CBS 6 Web Staff

HENRICO COUNTY, Va. – Officials with a Henrico nursing home grappling with a COVID-19 outbreak said eight residents have died and the number of positive cases at the facility has climbed to 37 as of Saturday afternoon.

Canterbury Rehabilitation & Healthcare Center Administrator Jeremiah Davis said an additional 18 residents tested positive for COVID-19, bringing the facility’s total resident diagnoses to 37.

Additionally, Davis said two additional residents died since Friday's update, bringing the number of COVID-19 related deaths to eight.

There are 40 COVID-19 cases in Henrico County, according to Virginia Department of Health (VDH) data released Sunday. That is up by nine cases from Saturday's update, but it is unclear if the additional positive cases at Canterbury Rehabilitation & Healthcare Center are included as VDH officials said 5 p.m. the previous day is their cutoff for new data.

Officials said Friday the "virus has claimed the lives of four Canterbury residents" and two other “presumed positive” residents died over the past 24 hours.

"Per guidance from the Henrico County Health Department, 10 patients are currently being treated onsite at Canterbury in an isolated unit with dedicated nursing and certified nursing assistant staff," officials previously said.
....https://www.wtvr.com/news/coronaviru...ositive-8-dead

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Updated March 29 at 9:26 PM

HENRICO, Va. (WWBT) - Canterbury Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center has reported two new presumptive positive COVID-19 related deaths.

According to the Richmond-Henrico Health District, one of the victims was a man in his 90′s, while the other was a woman in her 60′s - bringing the total of coronavirus-related deaths to 8.

The male victim was a presumed positive who was showing respiratory symptoms. The female victim did test positive for the virus.

“These are long term residents, and so they are part of the cluster of illnesses that we’re seeing at Canterbury rehab," said Dr. Danny Avula, director of the health district.

He says that there is relative hope at the center, despite these deaths:

“We had a couple of days where we were seeing significant day-to-day in the number of symptomatic individuals, and that has really started to tail off.”

He adds that Canterbury has been working with health officials in the county to help the center take on certain procedures, normally seen at hospitals, to help with the safety. This includes showers and wash stations, break tents, and foot baths --anything to help limit carriage of the disease.....
Doctor Avula adds that the district has perhaps six weeks before it hits its peek. Of the positive cases at the center, Dr. Avula says that many of them are getting better. About 6 or 7 are still being treated at hospitals, but at least 3 of those patients are improving..https://www.nbc12.com/2020/03/29/can...d-coronavirus/

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New COVID-19 clusters reported at Henrico senior living facilities


Posted: 10:25 PM, Mar 29, 2020

Updated: 12:56 AM, Mar 30, 2020

RICHMOND, Va. -- The health director for Richmond and Henrico has identified three new COVID-19 clusters at area nursing homes.

Dr. Danny Avula, the health director for the Richmond and Henrico Health Districts, said there are three COVID-19 cases at Beth Sholom Rehabilitation and three positive cases at the Masonic Home in eastern Henrico.

The director said the health department is working with the staff at both facilities to help slow transmission to other patients.

Officials declined to name the third facility with new COVID-19 cases.

Canterbury Rehabilitation & Healthcare Center, where eight residents have died of COVID-19-related illnesses, is seeing the largest outbreak in Central Virginia. Thirty-seven other residents as well as six staffers have tested positive for the virus.

However, Avula said Sunday infection prevention protocols put in place by the medical staff at the facility appear to be working....https://www.wtvr.com/news/coronaviru...ing-facilities

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• 16 dead in COVID-19 outbreak at Virginia nursing facility

By SARAH RANKINan hour ago
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A Virginia long-term care facility with one of the nation’s worst coronavirus outbreaks announced Thursday that its death toll had reached 16 as new testing confirmed roughly two-thirds of its residents have COVID-19.

The Canterbury Rehabilitation & Healthcare Center in suburban Richmond tested all its residents earlier this week after the virus began sweeping through the facility in mid-March, a time when limited supplies and strict policies on who could be tested meant such a response was not possible.


Ninety-two in-house or hospitalized residents have tested positive, the facility said in a statement, up from 41 positive tests earlier in the week. Only 35 tested negative, and 15 tests were still pending, meaning approximately two-thirds of the facility had become infected with the virus.

More than half of those who tested positive didn’t show any symptoms, a finding Dr. Danny Avula, director of the Richmond and Henrico health districts, called surprising.

“We’re dealing with an enemy here in COVID-19 that is extremely difficult to identify, extremely difficult to control, and despite the best efforts of the medical staff, of the testing community, of everybody involved, we’re still seeing really significant spread,” Avula said at a news conference.

Canterbury’s statement said the fatality count had increased due to five deaths over a recent 24-hour period and post-mortem testing that confirmed three people who had previously died were positive for the virus...https://apnews.com/6d1703a8c6b752e2940875982bae4c57

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42 dead in coronavirus outbreak at Virginia nursing home, more expected


Rich McKay
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(Reuters) - Forty-two residents of a Virginia nursing home near Richmond have died from the COVID-19 disease pandemic in one of the worst clusters of the new coronavirus in the United States, and officials expect more deaths to come.

At least 127 elderly people out of the 163 residents of the Canterbury Rehabilitation & Healthcare Center in Henrico County have tested positive for the new coronavirus in recent weeks, said its medical director Dr. James Wright. News reports say the latest two people died in the last three days.
.....Of the 97 known coronavirus outbreaks in Virginia, 53 are in long-term care facilities such as Canterbury, state health officials said.... https://uk.reuters.com/article/us-he...1V2A1?rpc=401&

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Virginia Nursing Home Had Plenty of Coronavirus Patients but Few Tests


“You can’t fight what you can’t see,” said the medical director of a Richmond nursing home where at least 46 residents have died.
By Simon Romero, Danielle Ivory and Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs

• April 15, 2020, 9:30 p.m. ET

Even before the coronavirus emerged at the Canterbury Rehabilitation & Healthcare Center in Richmond, Va., employees were worried about an outbreak. They held meetings to prepare and ramped up purchases of protective gear, said Dr. Jim Wright, the facility’s medical director, who spoke to the state health department about how to test a suspected case.....

Suddenly, there were two.

Within two weeks, dozens of others inside were falling ill.
...Some involved in the crisis at Canterbury described a nightmarish scenario in which the casualty count climbed as health workers and family members tried to determine whether sick residents should go to hospitals or receive palliative end-of-life care inside the home. More than half of the Canterbury residents who died from the virus did so at the facility.....More than 60 of the 160-some residents tested positive. About 50 of them had no symptoms, though some developed symptoms later.

“We were shocked,” Dr. Wright said. “We thought we had it relatively contained until the results started coming in. And that revealed to us how far behind we were.”...https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/15/u...ronavirus.html