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

35 people test positive for COVID-19 in Yolo County nursing home

Updated: 2:09 PM PDT Apr 13, 2020

YOLO COUNTY, Calif. —
Yolo County officials on Monday declared a COVID-19 outbreak at a nursing home as 35 people, including residents and staff, tested positive. One person also died from the virus.

Everybody who tested positive at a nursing home that county officials are not naming at this time was isolated and is being monitored, Yolo County said in a release. Of the 35, 23 of them are residents and 12 are staff members. The person who died was a resident.

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“I am deeply saddened to learn about another COVID-19 death and an outbreak in a nursing home,” Yolo County Public Health Officer Dr. Ron Chapman said in a release. “N
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Coronavirus leaves 1 more veteran dead at Holyoke Soldiers’ Home: 88 residents, 78 employees test positive for COVID-19

Today 5:33 PM3/31/2020 -
By Jeanette DeForge | [email]jdeforge@repub.com[/email]
HOLYOKE –One more veteran has died of coronavirus at the Holyoke Soldiers’ Home, bringing the total of deaths of residents in three weeks to 33.

An additional 88 residents at the state-owned home for elderly and infirm veterans have contracted COVID-19, test results on 11 more are pending and 78 employees are positive for the disease. Seven other residents have died in the past three weeks from other causes, officials for the state Executive Office of Health and Human Services said.......


..At the Chelsea Soldiers’ Home, eight veterans have died of COVID-19 and 23 additional residents have been infected with the coronavirus. A total of 217 veterans have tested negative, officials said....:( https://www.masslive.com/news/2020/0...-covid-19.html
 
42 dead in coronavirus outbreak at Virginia nursing home, more expected


Rich McKay
3 MIN READ
(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&
 
Coronavirus is ‘in most, if not all our nursing homes,’ N.J. health official says

Updated 5:10 PM; Today 4:40 PM
A state health official said Monday they are working under the assumption that all of New Jersey 375 nursing homes has been affected the coronavirus as case numbers among that particularly vulnerable population continue to rise to more than 5,200.

Health Commissioner Judith Persichilli announced 324 those long-term care facilities have confirmed cases. That up from 81 nursing homes with at least one case less than two weeks ago.
:(https://www.nj.com/coronavirus/2020/...cial-says.html
 
Coronavirus Has Killed Thousands at U.S. Nursing Homes
By Serena Gordon
HealthDay Reporter

TUESDAY, April 14, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- The numbers are staggering: More than 3,600 nursing home and long-term care residents have died due to COVID-19 infections, with a huge number occurring in just the past two weeks.

The stories are tragic:
  • A California nursing home with more than a third of residents infected with COVID-19 had to be evacuated when fearful staff didn't show up to work.
  • Almost nine in 10 residents of a Massachusetts nursing home had COVID-19 infections.
  • The National Guard was deployed to two New Jersey nursing homes hit especially hard with COVID-19 infections.
  • A Pennsylvania nursing home believes all 450 residents, and its staff, have been infected with the virus.
What is it about nursing homes and long-term care facilities that makes them uniquely susceptible?

.....'Dire' situation in nursing homes

Matthew Yarnell, president of Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Healthcare Pennsylvania, said the situation in nursing homes and long-term care facilities is dire.

"The long-term care living system has been underfunded for many years, and the virus is highlighting the kinds of long-term systemic problems we have. As a society, we do a really bad job of caring for our seniors," he said.

Right now, Yarnell said there is a "total shortage of PPE and a staffing crisis."

He said many people are working extra shifts to try to help, but many are getting sick. And not all have paid sick leave.

Baron pointed out that people working in long-term care facilities often have lower incomes, may be taking public transportation to work, may live in more densely populated homes and may live with people who have jobs such as grocery store clerks and delivery drivers that expose them to a lot of people. That means health care workers may spread infections in the community, and they may bring infections from the community into the nursing home, particularly if they don't have paid sick leave.

"The workforce who tends to do this work are typically low-wage, often women, often people of color. These are the soldiers we're sending into what's essentially a war zone. We need to make a commitment to them -- if you get sick, we'll have your back," Yarnell said.

And, he added that people working in long-term care facilities should be getting hazard pay.

"The focus has been on the hospitals, but every sector of caregiving should be staffed and supplied appropriately. People need to feel supported in this moment," Yarnell said.

"It's a value question for our society. Right now, our health care institutions are motivated by tight budgets that mean we don't have the supplies we need to fight this invisible enemy," he said.

The AHCA/NCAL agreed. "We desperately need PPE and priority testing. We are now at the point we are calling on the public for donations for PPE to long-term care providers," they said.

Despite doing everything they can to conserve PPE, providers are still struggling to get supplies. The AHCA/NCAL said they're worried that some facilities may exhaust their PPE supplies.

"That is why we are calling for everyone to assist, including partners in other industries and the public, to do everything they can to assist us at this time. We cannot beat this virus alone, and we appreciate everything the Administration, Congress, states, our partnering manufacturers, and members of the public can do right now," the organization said.
......
More information

Learn more about the impact of COVID-19 on nursing homes and other long-term care facilities from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

SOURCES: Richard Baron, M.D., president, American Board of Internal Medicine; April 10, 2020, AHCA/NCAL statement; Matthew Yarnell, president, Service Employees Union International Healthcare Pennsylvania

Last Updated: Apr 14, 2020;)https://consumer.healthday.com/infec...es-756694.html
 
Virus Deaths at U.S. Nursing Homes Pass 3,800, With 45 at Virginia Facility


The outbreak at a Virginia nursing home has become the deadliest in the nation at a long-term care facility.
About 80 percent of the residents at the Canterbury Rehabilitation & Healthcare Center in Richmond, Va., have tested positive for the coronavirus.
By Danielle Ivory, Mitch Smith and Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs
  • April 14, 2020, 5:32 p.m. ET
At least 45 residents of a nursing home in Virginia have died from the coronavirus, the highest known death toll reported at a long-term care facility in the United States, according to an analysis of case data by The New York Times.

An additional 83 residents have tested positive for the virus at the facility, the Canterbury Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center in Richmond, Va., its medical director, Dr. Jim Wright, said in an interview on Tuesday. He said the home had about 160 residents, meaning about 80 percent had contracted the virus.

The Times has identified more than 2,500 nursing homes and other long-term care facilities across the United States with coronavirus cases. More than 21,000 residents and staff members at those facilities have contracted the virus, and more than 3,800 have died....:(https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/14/u...re-center.html
 
32 residents die of coronavirus at 2 Mass. Jewish living facilities

April 14, 2020 By Penny Schwartz

BOSTON (JTA) – Thirty-two residents at two Jewish senior living facilities that are part of the same nonprofit network have died from COVID-19, and scores of other residents and staff have tested positive for the virus.

Eleven residents of Chelsea Jewish Life Care, across its three Boston-area locations, and 21 residents at JGS Lifecare in Longmeadow, a suburb of Springfield in Western Massachusetts, died, according to letters to families posted earlier this week on the websites of both facilities....At JGS Lifecare, 93 residents tested positive out of more than 180 tests conducted, and 43 staff members tested positive of 84 tested to date. Across its sites north of Boston, Chelsea Jewish reported that 117 residents tested positive, out of 251 tested, and of 103 staff tested, 40 tested positive....
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Nearly Half Of Coronavirus Deaths In Mass. Are From Long Term Care Facilities

By Cheryl Fiandaca
April 14, 2020 at 6:43 pm

EASTON (CBS) — Mary Frederickson’s family is heartbroken. The 80-year-old is alone and quarantined at Southeast Rehabilitation and Skilled Care Center in Easton....


As of Tuesday, in Massachusetts, 3,907 residents and staff in long term care facilities homes tested positive for the coronavirus and 444 residents have died, which is nearly half of the state’s total COVID-19 deaths.

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With 4.4K dead, feds under pressure to track nursing home outbreaks

By Candice Choi and Jim Mustian The Associated Press
April 15, 2020 - 11:20 am

NEW YORK — Federal health officials are coming under increasing pressure to start publicly tracking coronavirus infections and deaths in nursing homes amid criticism they have not been transparent enough in responding to an explosion of outbreaks that has already claimed thousands of lives.

Public health experts say the lack of transparency has been a major blindspot, and that publicizing outbreaks as they happen could not only alert nearby communities and anguished relatives but also help officials see where to focus testing and other safety measures.

“This is basic public health — you track this, you study it, and you learn from it,” said David Grabowski, who specializes in health care policy at Harvard Medical School. He said it’s difficult to have confidence in officials’ ability to contain the virus if they aren’t tracking where it has struck and why.

Such an action by the agencies that oversee the nation’s 15,000 nursing homes is seen as long overdue, coming more than a month after a nursing home in Washington state became the first COVID-19 hot spot in the U.S. with an outbreak that ultimately killed 43 people and a near-daily drumbeat of new cases that in some cases has forced entire homes to be evacuated.

Because the federal government has not been releasing a count of its own, The Associated Press has been keeping its own running tally based on media reports and state health departments. The AP’s latest count of at least 4,412 deaths is up from about 450 just two weeks ago.

Many individual states have added to the lack of transparency by releasing only totals of infections and deaths and not details about specific outbreaks. Foremost among them is the nation’s leader, New York, which accounts for more than 2,200 nursing home deaths — 20% of the state’s entire death total — but has so far refused to detail specific outbreaks, citing privacy concerns.

Privacy concerns

New York Health Commissioner Howard Zucker said this week that even releasing total numbers by nursing homes could violate the privacy of individuals, which is protected under federal health privacy law. “The issue is here as I’ve mentioned previously, this is their home. The nursing homes are their home,” he said.

“It’s just scandalous not to tell the public which facilities have the virus,” ....:tiphat:https://www.reviewjournal.com/news/p...reaks-2007341/
 
After Anonymous Tip, 17 Bodies Found at Nursing Home Hit by Virus


There have been 68 recent deaths of residents and nurses from the facility in a small New Jersey town
By Tracey Tully
  • April 15, 2020Updated 8:48 p.m. ET
  • The call for body bags came late Saturday.
By Monday, the police in a small New Jersey town had gotten an anonymous tip about a body being stored in a shed outside one of the state’s largest nursing homes.

When the police arrived, the corpse had been removed from the shed, but they discovered 17 bodies piled inside the nursing home in a small morgue intended to hold no more than four people.

“They were just overwhelmed by the amount of people who were expiring,” said Eric C. Danielson, the police chief in Andover, a small township in Sussex County, the state’s northernmost county.

The 17 were among 68 recent deaths linked to the long-term care facility, Andover Subacute and Rehabilitation Center I and II, including two nurses, officials said. Of those who died, 26 people had tested positive for the virus....:tiphat:https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/15/n...me-deaths.html
 
47 Veteran Deaths Reported At Holyoke Soldiers Home In Deadly COVID-19 Outbreak

April 15, 2020 at 7:36 pm


HOLYOKE (CBS) – The coronavirus outbreak at the Holyoke Soldiers Home is one of the deadliest in the U.S. Forty-seven veterans have now died.

Of those who have died, 38 tested positive for the coronavirus, eight tested negative and one is still unknown. In total, 99 veterans have now tested positive for COVID-19, and 76 veterans have tested negative. Three veterans have pending tests.

Of the staff at the home, 79 have tested positive and 221 employees have tested negative....:tiphat:https://boston.cbslocal.com/2020/04/...eteran-deaths/
 
At least 5,670 people living in long-term care facilities have died from the coronavirus across the U.S., according to state health data reviewed by NBC News.

Why it matters: The CDC warns that older people and those with other health complications face a higher risk of dying from the virus, amplifying its effect within such facilities — where around 2.5 million Americans live.
 
Two more Holyoke Soldiers Home vets die of COVID-19, bringing total to 38

JEANETTE DEFORGE, .49 MINUTES AGO
HOLYOKE – A total of 65% of the veterans at the Holyoke Soldiers Home have now contracted the coronavirus and at least 38 have died of the virus in the past three weeks.

Two more veterans who were confirmed to have suffered from COVID-19 have died in the past day and test results are pending for another resident who died overnight. Eight additional veterans have died in the same time period from other causes, said officials for the state Executive Office of Health and Human Services.

Family members confirmed that Charles Lowell, 78, a former Hardwick Selectman and volunteer firefighter and EMT in the town died Wednesday morning in the hospital. Lowell, who served five years in the U.S. Air Force and then worked at IBM for 27 years, had been fighting the virus for three weeks.

“He is an all-around good guy and he loves his town,” ...:tiphat:https://taskandpurpose.com/news/holy...navirus-deaths
 
‘They’re death pits’: Coronavirus claims at least 6,900 lives in U.S. nursing homes

More than six weeks after the first coronavirus deaths in a nursing home, outbreaks unfold across the country. About a fifth of U.S. virus deaths are linked to nursing facilities.
By
Farah Stockman, Matt Richtel, Danielle Ivory and Mitch Smith,

The New York Times Company
April 17, 2020 | 7:21 PM

The first warning of the devastation that the coronavirus could wreak inside U.S. nursing homes came in late February, when residents of a facility in suburban Seattle perished, one by one, as families waited helplessly outside.

In the ensuing six weeks, large and shockingly lethal outbreaks have continued to ravage nursing homes across the nation, undeterred by urgent new safety requirements. Now a nationwide tally by The New York Times has found the number of people living in or connected to nursing homes who have died of the coronavirus to be at least 6,900, far higher than previously known.

In New Jersey, 17 bodies piled up in a nursing home morgue, and more than one-quarter of a Virginia home’s residents have died. At least 24 people at a facility in Maryland have died; more than 100 residents and workers have been infected at another in Kansas; and people have died in centers for military veterans in Florida, Nevada, New York, Maine, Massachusetts, Oregon, and Washington.


On Friday, New York officials for the first time disclosed the names of long-term care facilities with five or more deaths: 72 facilities have reported at least five deaths, including the Cobble Hill Health Center in Brooklyn, where 55 people have died.

Overall, about one-fifth of deaths from the virus in the United States have been tied to nursing homes or other long-term care facilities, the Times review of cases shows. And more than 36,000 residents and employees across the nation have contracted it.

In interviews with more than two dozen workers in long-term care facilities as well as family members of residents and health care experts, a portrait emerged of a system unequipped to handle the onslaught and disintegrating further amid the growing crisis.

“They’re death pits,” said Betsy McCaughey, a former lieutenant governor of New York who founded the Committee to Reduce Infection Deaths, an education campaign aimed at stopping hospital-acquired infections. “These nursing homes are already overwhelmed. They’re crowded and they’re understaffed. One COVID-positive patient in a nursing home produces carnage.”

It is a tragedy that is continuing to unfold, and one that even the dire figures that are known only partially capture. The number of cases at these facilities — which include nursing homes, assisted-living facilities, memory care facilities, retirement and senior communities and long-term rehabilitation facilities — is almost certainly still higher since many facilities, counties and states have not provided detailed information. The virus has hit a wide range of facilities, including some of those most highly rated by federal health authorities as well as those with the lowest ratings....:(
https://www.boston.com/news/national...ng-home-deaths
 
Fla. Names Nursing Homes With Coronavirus Cases; Schools To Remain Closed


By BRENDAN RIVERS • 1 HOUR AGO
Eight long-term care facilities in Duval County have had cases of COVID-19 among their residents or staff:
  • Brookdale Avondale,
  • Camellia At Deerwood,
  • Cathedral Gerontology Center,
  • Fannie E. Taylor Home For The Aged - Taylor Manor,
  • Jacksonville Nursing And Rehab Center,
  • Lanier Rehabilitation Center, Palm Garden of Jacksonville
  • Wyndham Lakes Jacksonville
The eight were on the list of names the state of Florida on Saturday released for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic first took hold in early March.
​

Neighboring Clay County, the only First Coast county with more confirmed cases of COVID-19 among residents or staff of long-term care facilities, has six facilities on the list:
  • Brookdale Orange Park,
  • Diamond ALF,
  • Governors Creek Health And Rehabilitation,
  • Heartland Health Care Center - Orange Park,
  • Isle Health And Rehabilitation Center,
  • Seagrass Village Of Fleming Island
As of Friday evening, Duval County had 55 confirmed cases of COVID-19 among residents or staff of long-term care facilities and nine deaths. Clay County had 87 confirmed cases and four deaths associated with the facilities.
The following First Coast facilities also made the state's list:
St. Johns County
  • Starling At Nocatee
Baker County
  • Macclenny Nursing and Rehab Center
  • W Frank Wells Nursing Home
Nassau County
  • Life Care Center Of Hilliard
Putnam County
  • Vintage Care Senior Housing
:tiphat:https://news.wjct.org/post/fla-names...-remain-closed
 
38 residents at Henrico senior facility test positive for COVID-19
- Updated April 17 at 9:55 PM

HENRICO, Va. (WWBT) - Officials at Beth Sholom, an assisted living facility in Henrico, said in a statement that 38 residents have tested positive for COVID-19 as of Friday.

The facility said it was able to speed up the testing process, and as they expected with more testing available, the positive cases increased.

The Healthcare Center is the only building with confirmed COVID-19 cases, there are no other positive cases at other buildings.

...
The 38 positive cases are an increase from Tuesday when the facility announced that it had more than 25 residents and staff test positive for the virus....:tiphat:https://www.nbc12.com/2020/04/17/res...sitive-covid-/
 
Nineteen NYC nursing homes report 20 or more coronavirus deaths

25 min
At least 2,477 nursing home patients have been killed by the virus in New York, according to state figures.

The despair wrought on nursing homes by the coronavirus was laid bare on Friday in a state survey identifying numerous New York facilities where multiple patients died over the past few weeks.

Nineteen of the state's nursing homes reported 20 or more deaths linked to the pandemic, the survey said.

One Brooklyn home, the Cobble Hill Health Center, was listed as having 55 deaths. Officials at the facility, which has more than 300 beds located in a 19th-century former hospital in a tony section of Brooklyn, did not immediately return a call seeking comment....:tiphat:https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/...181237553.html
 
81 Cases of Coronavirus Reported at Joliet Assisted Living Facility: State

A total of 21 deaths have also been reported at the Symphony of Joliet nursing home

Published 16 mins ago • Updated 15 mins ago

A total of 81 coronavirus cases have been reported at the suburban Symphony of Joliet nursing home — a significant increase in cases in less than a week, according to data from the Illinois Department of Public Health.

As of Sunday, 81 cases and 21 deaths had been reported on the IDPH's website. Two days earlier, 23 deaths — 22 patients and a staff member — were reported along with 16 additional cases.

Information about the discrepancy in the number of deaths wasn't immediately available Sunday afternoon....:tiphat:https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/loca...state/2258407/
 
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