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Southwestern Illinois nursing homes, care centers add 94 new COVID cases in past week

Belleville News-Democrat - 9/5/2020

Sep. 5--In the past week, 94 more people who live or work in nursing homes and other long-term care facilities across southwestern Illinois have contracted the novel coronavirus, according to health officials.

Long-term care residents are among the most vulnerable to severe illness or death from the virus, which causes the COVID-19 respiratory disease (which can also affect other tissue). Older people and those with existing health conditions are at greater risk, according to experts.

As of Friday, state and local health officials had recorded a total of 1,661 cases of the virus and 214 deaths tied to long-term care centers in the metro-east -- across St. Clair, Madison, Clinton, Monroe, Randolph and Bond counties. St. Clair County also counts presumptive positives, or people who have symptoms of COVID-19 without a positive test result.

Of the 94 people to contract the virus since last week, 62 were from Madison County and 24 from St. Clair County.

Southwestern Illinois coronavirus outbreaks

The St. Clair County Health Department provides daily updates on the outbreaks and other developments in the county on the St. Clair County Emergency Management Agency's Facebook page. The state's updates on outbreaks come once a week at dph.illinois.gov/covid19/long-term-care-facility-outbreaks-covid-19.

Madison County's updates from long-term care centers correspond with the state's each week on Friday. The county health department releases the information on its Facebook page.

All of the state and local agencies say they include residents and employees of the facilities in their numbers. Locations with fewer than two cases of the virus are not reported.

The website medicare.gov records the number of beds for Medicare- and Medicaid-certified nursing homes.

Here is the latest information from health officials on the total number of people who have been infected with the coronavirus at each facility since the start of the pandemic:

ST. CLAIR COUNTY

Total: 762 people infected (including presumptive positives) and 107 deaths as of Friday. Long-term care facility residents and staff accounted for 12% of the infections countywide and 61% of the deaths.

--156-bed facility Four Fountains in Belleville -- 111 people, including 27 deaths (First reported April 19.)

--116-bed facility Cedar Ridge of Lebanon -- 80 people, including 16 deaths (First reported May 27.)

--140-bed facility BRIA of Belleville -- 69 people, including eight deaths (First reported April 19.)

--90-bed facility Lebanon Care Center -- 66 people, including 12 deaths (First reported April 24.)

--108-bed facility St. Paul's Home in Belleville -- 58 people, including 15 deaths (First reported April 24.)

--53-bed facility New Athens Home for the Aged -- 57 people, including nine deaths (First reported May 19.)

--82-bed facility Memorial Care Center in Belleville -- 50 people, including five deaths (First reported April 19.)

--94-bed facility Swansea Rehab and Care Center -- 41 people, including eight deaths (First reported May 12.)

--133-bed facility BRIA of Cahokia -- 36 people, including three deaths (First reported May 2.)

--Caseyville Nursing and Rehab -- 32 people, including two deaths (First reported May 28.)

--Caritas Family Solutions in Belleville region -- 27 people (First reported May 4.)

--16-bed facility Freeburg Terrace -- 20 people (First reported Aug. 24.) Freeburg Terrace Executive Director Jim Haney said Friday that 13 residents and seven employees contracted the virus.

--150-bed facility Autumn Meadows in Cahokia -- 13 people (First reported June 26.)

--Cedarhurst of Shiloh -- 13 people (First reported May 24.) Denise Bentele, spokeswoman for Cedarhurst of Shiloh, said previously that 12 residents had contracted the virus, but none of them were positive anymore. She said one employee tested positive.

--120-bed facility Mercy Rehab and Care Center in Swansea -- 10 people (first reported June 17).

--Knollwood Retirement Center in Caseyville -- eight people, including one death (First reported May 14.)

--TDL Inc. in Belleville -- eight people (First reported May 6.)

--180-bed facility Integrity Healthcare in Belleville -- seven people (First reported July 1.)

--Colonnade Senior Living in O'Fallon -- seven people (First reported April 19.)

--Help at Home in Belleville -- six people, including one death (First reported May 23.)

--Cambridge House in O'Fallon -- five people (First reported Aug. 13.)

--Parkway Gardens in Fairview Heights -- five people (First reported Aug. 11.)

--118-bed facility Freeburg Care Center -- five people (First reported Aug. 9.) Freeburg Care Center Administrator Amy Bonta said the five people affected by COVID-19 are employees.

--Help at Home in O'Fallon -- five people (First reported May 4.)

--55-bed facility Aperion Care Center in Mascoutah -- four people (First reported Sept. 4.)

--Bradford Place in Swansea -- four people (First reported July 14.)

--101-bed facility Integrity Healthcare of Smithton -- three people (First reported Sept. 2.)

--30-bed facility St. John Bosco Children's Center -- three people (First reported July 16.)

--Dammert Center at the National Shrine of Our Lady of the Snows -- three people (First reported June 23.)

--Adaptive Illinois in Belleville -- two people (First reported July 5.)

--Cedars of Lebanon -- two people (First reported June 23.)

--Atrium of Belleville -- two people (First reported June 8.) Roberto Roma, the Atrium of Belleville's executive director, said previously that the two people affected were an employee who quarantined and a resident who moved out of the facility in March.

MADISON COUNTY

Total: 614 people infected and 80 deaths as of Friday. Long-term care facility residents and staff accounted for 14% of the infections countywide and 76% of the deaths.

--109-bed facility Stearns Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Granite City -- 107 people, including 14 deaths

--120-bed facility Edwardsville Care Center -- 101 people, including 22 deaths

--128-bed facility Eden Village Care Center in Glen Carbon -- 69 people, including 20 deaths

--180-bed facility Riverside Rehab and Healthcare -- 66 people, including 17 deaths

--64-bed facility Alton Memorial Rehab and Therapy -- 52 people, including three deaths

--68-bed facility Integrity of Godfrey -- 44 people

--Beverly Farm in Godfrey -- 35 people, according to the facility

--Alton Mental Health Center -- 33 people

--70-bed facility Meridian Village -- 23 people

--Liberty Village of Maryville -- 10 people

--Cedarhurst of Highland -- 10 people

--Cedarhurst of Godfrey -- 10 people

--104-bed facility Elmwood Nursing and Rehab in Maryville -- nine people

--116-bed facility Care Center at Center Grove in Edwardsville -- seven people

--Cedarhurst of Bethalto -- seven people

--94-bed facility Collinsville Rehabilitation and Healthcare -- six people, including two deaths

--University Care Center -- six people, including one death

--Villas of Holly Brook in Bethalto -- six people

--86-bed facility Granite City Nursing and Rehab -- three people, including one death

--Evergreen Place in Alton -- three people

--Faith Countryside -- three people

--Cedarhurst of Edwardsville -- two people

--Highland Healthcare -- two people

CLINTON COUNTY

Total: 201 people infected and 16 deaths as of Friday. Long-term care facility residents and staff accounted for 24% of the infections countywide and 94% of the deaths.

--109-bed facility Carlyle HealthCare Center -- 91 people, including 15 deaths

--Warren G. Murray Developmental Center -- 62 people

--Clinton Manor Living Facility -- 41 people, including one death

--Villa Catherine -- seven people

PERRY COUNTY

Total: 78 people infected and eight deaths as of Friday. Long-term care facility residents and staff accounted for 26% of the infections countywide and 73% of the deaths.

--Pinckneyville Nursing and Rehabilitation -- 73 people, including seven deaths

--Manor of Mason Woods -- five people, including one death

MONROE COUNTY

Total: 68 people infected and 11 deaths as of Friday. Long-term care facility residents and staff accounted for 14% of the infections countywide and 85% of the deaths.

--Garden Place Columbia -- 38 people, including 11 deaths

--119-bed facility Integrity Healthcare-Columbia Rehab and Care Center -- 15 people

--144-bed facility Oak Hill in Waterloo -- nine people

--Cedarhurst Senior Living in Waterloo -- six people

JERSEY COUNTY

Total: 54 people infected and four deaths as of Friday. Long-term care facility residents and staff accounted for 19% of the infections countywide and 67% of the deaths.

--Liberty Village of Jerseyville -- 54 people, including four deaths

MACOUPIN COUNTY

Total: 36 people infected and two deaths as of Friday. Long-term care facility residents and staff accounted for 9% of the infections countywide and 29% of the deaths.

--Heritage Health Gillespie -- 23 people, including two deaths

--98-bed facility Carlinville Rehabilitation and Health Care Center -- five people

--Sunrise Skilled Nursing and Rehabilitation Center -- four people

--Heritage Health Staunton -- two people

--Heritage Health Carlinville -- two people

RANDOLPH COUNTY

Total: 11 people infected as of Friday. Long-term care facility residents and staff accounted for 1% of the infections countywide.

--Cedarhurst of Sparta -- eight people

--75-bed facility Coulterville Rehabilitation & Health Care Center -- three people

Whitney Oberlink, administrator of the Coulterville Rehabilitation and Health Care Center, said previously that two of the people affected by COVID-19 there were employees and that they recovered from the disease.

BOND COUNTY

Total: five people infected as of Friday. Long-term care facility residents and staff accounted for 3% of the infections countywide.

--90-bed facility Greenville Nursing and Rehab -- five people

Discrepancies

The Illinois Department of Public Health's information did not match the St. Clair County Health Department's for several long-term care centers on Friday.

The Department of Public Health said there were more cases or deaths at seven locations.

The Belleville News-Democrat has not included higher numbers announced by the state in calculating totals.

The state relies on local health departments for the information it reports and says on its website that the local agencies will have "the most up-to-date data."

Health departments and individual facilities in the metro-east have previously said the state's data was off.

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