2500 + nursing homes battling coronavirus in the U.S - 20,000 dead nationwide - 36,000 + residents and staff infected

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18 COVID-19 cases linked to Coffey Co. nursing home

(WIBW) - Health officials say more than a dozen positive COVID-19 cases are linked to a nursing home in Coffey County.

The Life Care Center of Burlington is at the center of the outbreak.

The Coffey Co. Health Dept. says six new positive tests came in Monday, including a 39-year-old woman. The other cases are in people ages 77 to 90.

The first eight cases linked to the facility came in last week, with patients ranging in age from 20 to 90.

"We know that the containment of this infection is very difficult in care facilities," Coffey Co. Health Dept. Administrator Lindsay Payer said.

Lyon Co. Health officials confirm three more cases associated with the facility are in people from Lyon county.

In a statement Monday night to the Kansas City Star, the nursing home's director said they have at least 18 cases, involving 11 residents and seven workers. She said the workers are recovering at home.

It is not known in which county the person with the additional case resides.

Life Care Center is owned by the same company that owns a Wyandotte Co. facility where a resident died from COVID-19, and a Seattle facility that saw several deaths from coronavirus.

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11 Los Angeles County Nursing Homes Confirm Coronavirus Outbreaks

Health care officials report that 11 nursing homes across Los Angeles county have confirmed coronavirus outbreaks.

By Charles Woodman, Patch Staff

Mar 31, 2020 10:20 am
The county says any facility with three or more coronavirus patients is suffering an outbreak. (Shutterstock)LOS ANGELES COUNTY — Officials with Los Angeles County are responding to coronavirus outbreaks at 11 separate nursing homes. The county has named all the homes, which include the Alameda Care Center in Burbank, Silverado Beverly Place in Los Angeles and Kensington Assisted Living in Redondo Beach.

On Friday, the county was reporting just three nursing home outbreaks, meaning the number of outbreaks in homes grew almost four times over four days. Officials consider an outbreak to be any location or facility that has three or more confirmed coronavirus cases. They are also investigating several additional nursing homes that are reporting just one or two cases of the virus....:tiphat:https://patch.com/california/los-ang...irus-outbreaks

 

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10 Nursing Homes in Colorado Have COVID-19 Outbreaks

March 31, 2020

The Colorado Department of Health has released the names and locations of nine of the 10 nursing homes and long-term care facilities that are facing outbreaks of COVID-19 in response to a public records request filed by The Denver Post.

The facilities include two each in Weld and Larimer counties, and one each in El Paso, Chaffee, Arapahoe, Adams and Jefferson counties. The name and location of the 10th facility has not been released....:tiphat:https://www.insurancejournal.com/new.../31/562880.htm

 

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51 residents, 6 staff at Yucaipa nursing home test positive for coronavirus

By SANDRA EMERSON | semerson@scng.com |
UPDATED: March 31, 2020 at 5:00 p.m.

Fifty-one residents and six employees at a Yucaipa nursing home have tested positive for the novel coronavirus and two residents have died, San Bernardino County public health officials said Tuesday afternoon, March 31.

Seventy-nine specimens were collected from residents and staff at Cedar Mountain Post Acute Rehabilitation, Trudy Raymundo, county public health director, said during a news conference outside Yucaipa City Hall.

“There are still some specimens remaining to be processed and results are still pending,” Raymundo said. “But we have talked to the folks at Cedar Mountain and we have let them know to assume at this point that everyone is positive and to take appropriate measures....:tiphat:https://www.pe.com/2020/03/31/51-res...r-coronavirus/

 

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Coronavirus death toll at Maryland nursing home rises to 5


BY JULIA BOCCAGNO

MARCH 31, 2020 / 7:51 PM / CBS NEWS
Mount Airy, Maryland — Five residents of a Maryland nursing home have died as a result of coronavirus, local officials announced Tuesday. All of the individuals who died were aged 60 or older, while at least two were described by officials as having underlying health conditions.

A recent outbreak at Pleasant View Nursing Home in Mount Airy, Maryland — located about 40 miles outside the nation's capital — caused 77 of the facility's residents to test positive for coronavirus, pushing Maryland's total number of COVID-19 cases beyond 1,600, according to data released by the state.

Eighteen of the nursing home's 95 residents tested negative for the virus, according to officials. As of Tuesday, all resident tests have been reported.....:tiphat:https://www.cbsnews.com/news/coronav...-5-2020-03-31/

 

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Health department investigating multiple COVID-19 cases at Parma nursing home


Posted: 8:03 PM, Mar 31, 2020

By: Courtney Shaw


PARMA, Ohio — The Cuyahoga County Health Department is investigating a cluster of COVID-19 cases at a Parma nursing home.

Patients and staff at Manor Care Parma are being screened for the virus and tested...:tiphat:https://www.news5cleveland.com/news/...a-nursing-home

 

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Massachusetts officials race to contain coronavirus outbreak at Holyoke Soldiers’ Home

By LISA KASHINSKY | lkashinsky@bostonherald.com and STEFAN GELLER | sgeller@bostonherald.com |
March 31, 2020 at 8:54 p.m.

The state is racing to contain a coronavirus outbreak at the Holyoke Soldiers’ Home that turned deadly last week and spread unbeknownst to both the governor and the city’s mayor — plunging families into mourning and leaving plenty more scrambling for answers.

Thirteen veterans had died as of Tuesday afternoon. Six of them tested positive for COVID-19, one tested negative, five are pending results and one is unknown, state officials said.

“It’s so scary. It’s horrible,” said Kimberly Ryan, of West Springfield, whose 86-year-old grandfather, Walter Downing, lives at the home.

State officials said Tuesday another 10 veterans and seven staff members at the state-run facility have tested positive for the virus, with 25 more veterans’ results pending...:tiphat:https://www.bostonherald.com/2020/03...soldiers-home/

 

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41 COVID-19 cases at one Henrico facility


Posted: 2:46 PM, Mar 31, 2020

Updated: 3:30 PM, Mar 31, 2020
By: Scott Wise
RICHMOND, Va. -- More than 40 residents of Canterbury Rehabilitation & Healthcare in Henrico have tested positive for COVID-19, according to managers at the facility. Twenty-two of the 41 positive test results were reported over the past four days.

"It is with heavy hearts that we report the virus has claimed the lives of seven total Canterbury residents with confirmed COVID-19 diagnoses," a statement from the center read. "Two additional resident deaths are thought to be COVID-19 related."
Thirty-two patients are receiving treatment either at a regional hospital or at Canterbury.

"Our hearts go out to the families of those who have passed, and we deeply feel the loss within our community," Jeremiah Davis, Administrator, Canterbury Rehabilitation & Healthcare Center, said in a statement. "We have moved forward into testing all Canterbury staff and patients for COVID-19. We also are continually monitoring all Canterbury residents for COVID-19 symptoms, along with daily employee screenings. Those employees with respiratory symptoms or fever are prohibited from entering the facility."

Henrico County has reported 62 positive COVID-19 cases within the county, 41 cases located within this one facility....:tiphat:https://www.wtvr.com/news/coronaviru...nrico-facility

 

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4 COVID-19 Cases At Levindale Facility In Baltimore As More Area Nursing Homes Report Cases

By Rachael Cardin
April 1, 2020 at 3:20 pm
BALTIMORE (WJZ) — There are now four COVID-19 cases at the Levindale Hebrew Geriatric Center & Hospital in Baltimore, a statement from LifeBridge Health confirmed Wednesday.

Three cases were originally confirmed by the Baltimore City Health Commissioner earlier Wednesday morning.

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LifeBridge Health said there are four confirmed cases, one is a patient in the specialty hospital and three are on their sub-acute rehab unit. A staffer also tested positive and is recovering at home in quarantine.

They said there are no confirmed COVID-19 cases in residents of the long-term care facility.

“Levindale is a unique facility that offers several types of care, including a long-term residential care facility, sub-acute rehabilitation and a specialty hospital, which includes a high-intensity care unit,” LifeBridge said in a statement....:tiphat:https://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2020/...ltimore-cases/

 

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Southern California nursing home has more than 50 residents infected with coronavirus — a troubling development amid cautious optimism that cases in the state might peak more slowly than expected.

Cedar Mountain Post Acute Rehabilitation in Yucaipa has been told to assume that all of its patients have covid-19, San Bernardino County Department of Public Health Director Trudy Raymundo said. As of Tuesday, 51 residents and six staff members had tested positive. Two patients have died.

The nursing home east of Los Angeles isn’t accepting new residents, and the facility has been closed to visitors under Gov. Gavin Newsom’s stay-at-home order, Raymundo said.

The announcement came as Newsom said extraordinary efforts to keep people home have bought time needed to prepare for an expected surge of cases in coming weeks. He said the slower-than-forecast increase in cases means the peak is now likely to occur in May.

“To be truthful and candid, the current modeling is on the lower end of our projection as I talk to you today,” Newsom said Tuesday. “Very easily tomorrow I could say something differently, and that’s why one just has to be very cautious about this.”...:tiphat:https://triblive.com/news/world/more...attlefield-be/

 

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6 Residents, Staff Member At Genesis Loch Raven Center In Baltimore County Test Positive For COVID-19

April 1, 2020 at 7:10 pm
Filed Under:Baltimore, Baltimore County, Baltimore News, Coronavirus Outbreak In Maryland: WJZ Complete Coverage, COVID-19, Local TV, Nursing Homes, Talkers

BALTIMORE COUNTY, Md. (WJZ) — Six residents and a staff member at a Baltimore County nursing home have tested positive for coronavirus, officials said Wednesday.

The residents of Genesis Loch Raven Center in Parkville who tested positive were five women between the ages of 50 and 89 and a man in his 80s. The staff member, a woman in her 50s, tested positive but has since been cleared to return to work.

At Heritage Center in Dundalk, one resident and one staff member also tested positive....:tiphat:https://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2020/...nursing-homes/

 

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Over 600 nursing homes infected in Canada :tiphat:https://www.theglobeandmail.com/cana...irement-homes/

 

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Death Toll At Holyoke Soldiers’ Home Rises To 18

April 2, 2020 at 3:22 pm

HOLYOKE (CBS) — Three more veterans have died and more have tested positive for coronavirus at the Holyoke Soldier’s Home, authorities said Thursday. That brings the death toll to 18 at the facility that is now being investigated by a former federal prosecutor.

“Today we are saddened to announce three additional deaths at the Holyoke Soldiers’ Home, and some additional COVID-19 positive residents at both homes,” the office of Health and Human Services said in a statement. “We extend our deepest sympathies to the families and loved ones of the residents.”

A total of 23 veteran residents and seven staff members have tested positive. All residents have now been tested for coronavirus and the staff is being tested as well.

The National Guard has been on site to support staffing needs and there’s a new clinical command structure. But the state expects there will be more infections and deaths because so many of the res...:tiphat:https://boston.cbslocal.com/2020/04/...s-home-deaths/

 

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Infections, deaths surge at US nursing homes amid lockdowns
By Jim Mustian, Bernard Condon and Candice Choi The Associated Press
April 2, 2020 - 8:48 am


Nursing homes across the country have been in lockdown for weeks under federal orders to protect their frail, elderly residents from coronavirus, but a wave of deadly outbreaks nearly every day since suggests that the measures including a ban on visits and daily health screenings of staffers either came too late or were not rigorous enough.

Recent outbreaks in Tennessee, New Jersey, Ohio, West Virginia and Maryland have pushed the death toll at the nation’s nursing homes to at least 450 and highlight the biggest gap: Screenings of doctors, nurses, aides and other workers do not involve actual testing but the taking of temperatures or asking health questions that still allow infected, asymptomatic people to slip through.

“It’s still been like Swiss cheese with people coming in and out of there, and thus you’ve got these explosions in senior facilities,” said John BaRoss of Long Valley, New Jersey, who recently pulled his 85-year-old mother out of an assisted-living center out of fear of infection.

After an outbreak of 100 infections and four deaths at the Gallatin Center for Rehabilitation and Healing outside Nashville, Tennessee — where the National Guard was called in to help evacuate the facility — Sumner County Mayor Anthony Holt blamed staff members who came to work despite showing symptoms for COVID-19 and “exposed a lot of patients.”

“Things got out of hand,” Holt told the Associated Press. “Once employees became symptomatic, they should have asked them to go home immediately and called the health department. I don’t think that occurred.”

After an outbreak near Dayton, Ohio, killed six people and infected nearly 50 at a pair of nursing homes less than 10 miles apart, health officials began scrutinizing medical specialists such as phlebotomists and respiratory therapists who work in multiple facilities a day. One such health worker who visited both homes tested positive for COVID-19.

In Nevada, more than 80 percent of nursing homes have failed to meet federal standards for infection prevention and control in the past three years, Medicare data shows.

‘Wildfire’ outbreak in Maryland

In Maryland, Gov. Larry Hogan said an outbreak that spread like “wildfire” at a Mount Airy nursing home, killing five and infecting 77, apparently began with an asymptomatic health worker who made it past a temperature check screening and “infected the population.”

Some relatives of those at the Sundale nursing home in Morgantown, West Virginia, where 29 residents and staff have tested positive, say more should have been done to keep coronavirus out before the federal restrictions took hold in mid-March..... :tiphat:https://www.reviewjournal.com/news/n...downs-1997342/

 

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COVID-19 Reaches Quarter Of New Jersey’s Nursing Homes
April 2, 2020 at 9:44 am

• TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Positive coronavirus cases have reached about a quarter of all of New Jersey’s nursing homes, accounting for more than a fifth of the 355 total fatalities from the virus, officials said Tuesday. Gov. Phil Murphy and Health Commissioner Judy Persichilli said during a daily briefing that the number of cases in the state climbed to more than 22,000, up about 3,000 in the last day.

The death toll climbed by 91 people from Tuesday to Wednesday.

The virus’ expansion to 93 of the state’s 375 nursing homes is concerning, Murphy and Persichilli have said, but added that it’s expected.

They have said employees at the facilities must wear masks. Visitors have been restricted from going to nursing homes since early last month, except in cases involving residents on hospice.

The development came the same day that Persi...:tiphat: https://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/20...nursing-homes/

 

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Coronavirus outbreaks like 'wildfire' at US nursing homes under lockdowns


Measures including a ban on visits and daily health screenings of staffers either came too late or were not rigorous enough
Associated Press

modified on Thu 2 Apr 2020 11.23 EDT

Nursing homes across the US have been in lockdown for weeks under federal orders to protect their frail, elderly residents from coronavirus, but a wave of deadly outbreaks nearly every day since suggests that the measures including a ban on visits and daily health screenings of staffers either came too late or were not rigorous enough.

Recent outbreaks in Tennessee, New Jersey, Ohio, West Virginia, Massachusetts and Maryland have pushed the death toll at the nation’s nursing homes to at least 450 and highlight the biggest gap: screenings of doctors, nurses, aides and other workers do not involve actual testing but the taking of temperatures or asking health questions that still allow infected, asymptomatic people to slip through.

“It’s still been like Swiss cheese with people coming in and out of there, and thus you’ve got these explosions in senior facilities,” said John BaRoss of Long Valley, New Jersey, who recently pulled his 85-year-old mother out of an assisted-living center out of fear of infection....:tiphat: https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...omes-lockdowns

 

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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...:tiphat:https://apnews.com/6d1703a8c6b752e2940875982bae4c57

 

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Coffey Co. has new COVID-19 cases



TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) -- The Coffey County Health Department announced three new positive cases of the coronavirus in the county, bringing the total to 21.

The new patients are a 24-year-old female, an 86-year-old female and an 80-year-old male.

There are 30 COVID-19 cases connected with Life Care Center in Burlington. This number includes employees and residents. Some employees do not life in Coffey County, which is why they aren't included in the county numbers.

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CDC pressured to start keeping a formal tally of nursing homes with coronavirus cases

Democratic senators are pressing the CDC to keep a national tally of long-term facilities with coronavirus cases. There were at least 400 a week ago.
April 6, 2020, 5:48 PM EDT
By Laura Strickler
WASHINGTON — As the number of coronavirus cases in nursing homes continues to skyrocket, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is considering whether to start keeping a formal tally of nursing homes with ongoing cases, according to an agency spokesperson.

The internal decision-making comes amid criticism from Democratic senators who want the agency not only to keep tabs on the number of long-term care facilities with cases but also to name them.

The CDC has never kept a formal tally during the pandemic, but it has computed totals at least twice. On March 23, Seema Verma, administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, or CMS, said 146 long-term care facilities across the country had at least one case of the coronavirus. Both the CMS and the CDC are part of the Department of Health and Human Services, and Verma was using numbers provided by the CDC.

A week later, on March 30, the CDC told NBC News that more than 400 facilities were battling the illness, an increase of 172 percent.

Kristen Nordlund, a spokeswoman for the agency, said Sunday that the CDC had no updated figures and that to get the previous tallies of long-term care facilities with cases, the agency had to query individual state agencies.


The CDC did not say how many states had provided data for its previous tallies. On March 30, the same day the CDC said it had counted more than 400 facilities with coronavirus cases nationwide, NBC News counted nearly 300 in just three states and one county.

In a statement Monday, Nordlund confirmed that the CDC "is not keeping a 'master list' of coronavirus cases in long term care facilities or keeping track of how many facilities have infected residents."... https://www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...-have-n1177801

 

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Iowa identifies 2 nursing homes hit with COVID-19 outbreaks


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IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — The Iowa Department of Public Health has released the identities of two nursing homes where outbreaks of the coronavirus have infected residents and contributed to a large share of the state’s known cases.

The facilities were identified Tuesday as the McCreedy Home in Washington County and Premier Estates of Toledo in Tama County. Health officials had previously withheld that information from the public.

Those homes and Heritage Specialty Care in Cedar Rapids are the sites of the three outbreaks at long-term care facilities confirmed in Iowa. Under the state’s definition, that means three or more residents have tested positive.

Officials say the outbreaks account for 11 percent of Iowa’s known coronavirus cases and 46 percent of deaths. That includes 76 cases tied to Heritage alone... https://apnews.com/ec5060a564abc36e00d710f549b8e23a