Southwestern Illinois nursing homes, care centers add 86 new COVID cases in past week

Belleville News-Democrat - 10/11/2020

Oct. 11--In the past week, 86 more people who live or work in local nursing homes or other long-term care facilities have contracted the new coronavirus, according to health officials.

Long-term care residents are among the most vulnerable to severe illness or death from the virus, which causes COVID-19.

As of Friday, state and local health officials had recorded a total of 2,092 cases of the virus and 265 deaths tied to long-term care centers in the metro-east region -- across St. Clair, Madison, Clinton, Monroe, Bond and Randolph counties.

Of the people to contract the virus since last week, 33 were from Monroe County and 32 from Madison County.

Nearby Jersey County, part of the West Central Illinois region, also saw an increase in infections from an outbreak at a long-term care facility.

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Southwestern Illinois coronavirus outbreaks

The Illinois Department of Public Health's updates on long-term care center outbreaks in every county come once a week at dph.illinois.gov/covid19/long-term-care-facility-outbreaks-covid-19. The local health departments in Madison and St. Clair counties also make announcements about numbers from their long-term care centers.

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

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.

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: 914 people infected (including presumptive positives) and 120 deaths as of Friday, an increase of nine new infections and three deaths since Oct. 2. Long-term care facility residents and staff accounted for 11% of the infections countywide and 60% of the deaths.

--156-bed facility Four Fountains in Belleville -- 117 people infected, including 29 deaths (Outbreak first reported April 19. One death announced since Oct. 2.)

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

--90-bed facility Lebanon Care Center -- 77 people, including 12 deaths (First reported April 24.)

--140-bed facility BRIA of Belleville -- 70 people, including eight deaths (First reported April 19.)

--101-bed facility Integrity Healthcare of Smithton -- 59 people, including seven deaths (First reported Sept. 2. One new infection and one death announced since Oct. 2.)

--108-bed facility St. Paul's Home in Belleville -- 59 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 -- 44 people, including eight deaths (First reported May 12.)

--Caritas Family Solutions in Belleville region -- 42 people (First reported May 4.)

--Dammert Center at the National Shrine of Our Lady of the Snows -- 38 people, including four deaths (First reported June 23. Three new infections and one death announced since Oct. 2.)

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

--Caseyville Nursing and Rehab -- 34 people, including two deaths (First reported May 28. Two new infections announced since Oct. 2.)

--16-bed facility Freeburg Terrace -- 20 people, according to the facility (First reported Aug. 24.) Freeburg Terrace Executive Director Jim Haney said 13 residents and seven employees tested positive for COVID-19.

--150-bed facility Autumn Meadows in Cahokia -- 18 people (First reported June 26.)

--120-bed facility Mercy Rehab and Care Center in Swansea -- 15 people (First reported June 17. One new infection announced since Oct. 2.)

--Cedarhurst of Shiloh -- 15 people (First reported May 24.)

--180-bed facility Integrity Healthcare in Belleville -- 10 people (First reported July 1. One new infection announced since Oct. 2.)

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

--Parkway Gardens in Fairview Heights -- eight people (First reported Aug. 11. One new infection announced since Oct. 2.)

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

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

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

--118-bed facility Freeburg Care Center -- six people (First reported Aug. 9.) Freeburg Care Center Administrator Amy Bonta said the six people who tested positive for COVID-19 are employees.

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

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

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

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

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

--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: 773 people infected and 106 deaths as of Friday, an increase of 32 new infections and one death since Oct. 2. Long-term care facility residents and staff accounted for 12% of the infections countywide and 72% of the deaths.

--109-bed facility Stearns Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Granite City -- 111 people, including 20 deaths

--120-bed facility Edwardsville Care Center -- 105 people, including 22 deaths

--128-bed facility Eden Village Care Center in Glen Carbon -- 80 people, including 21 deaths (Two new infections announced since Oct. 2.)

--70-bed facility Meridian Village -- 75 people, including four deaths (Eleven new infections announced since Oct. 2.)

--180-bed facility Riverside Rehab and Healthcare -- 70 people, including 17 deaths

--68-bed facility Integrity of Godfrey -- 60 people, including eight deaths

--64-bed facility Alton Memorial Rehab and Therapy -- 59 people, including nine deaths (One death announced since Oct. 2.)

--Alton Mental Health Center -- 51 people

--Beverly Farm in Godfrey -- 46 people (Nine new infections announced since Oct. 2.)

--Evergreen Place in Alton -- 13 people, including one death

--104-bed facility Elmwood Nursing and Rehab in Maryville -- 13 people

--Liberty Village of Maryville -- 12 people (Two new infections announced since Oct. 2)

--Cedarhurst of Bethalto -- 11 people (Four new infections announced since Oct. 2.)

--116-bed facility Care Center at Center Grove in Edwardsville -- 11 people (One new infection announced since Oct. 2.)

--Cedarhurst of Highland -- 10 people

--Cedarhurst of Godfrey -- 10 people

--University Care Center -- nine people, including one death (Three new infections announced since Oct. 2.)

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

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

--Alhambra Rehab and Healthcare -- five people

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

--Faith Countryside -- three people

--Cedarhurst of Edwardsville -- two people

--Highland Healthcare -- two people

CLINTON COUNTY

Total: 212 people infected and 16 deaths as of Friday, an increase of one new infection since Oct. 2. Long-term care facility residents and staff accounted for 15% of the infections countywide and 70% of the deaths.

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

--Warren G. Murray Developmental Center -- 70 people (One new infection since Oct. 2.)

--Clinton Manor Living Facility -- 44 people, including one death

--Villa Catherine -- seven people

MONROE COUNTY

Total: 134 people infected and 19 deaths as of Friday, an increase of 33 new infections and seven deaths since Oct. 2. Long-term care facility residents and staff accounted for 17% of the infections countywide and 83% of the deaths.

--144-bed facility Oak Hill in Waterloo -- 75 people, including eight deaths (Thirty-three new infections and seven deaths announced since Oct. 2.)

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

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

--Cedarhurst Senior Living in Waterloo -- six people

JERSEY COUNTY

Total: 99 people infected and 15 deaths as of Friday, an increase of three new infections and three deaths since Oct. 2. Long-term care facility residents and staff accounted for 24% of the infections countywide and 79% of the deaths.

--Liberty Village of Jerseyville -- 99 people, including 15 deaths

PERRY COUNTY

Total: 79 people infected and 12 deaths as of Friday, an increase of one death since Oct. 2. Long-term care facility residents and staff accounted for 21% of the infections countywide and 75% of the deaths.

--Pinckneyville Nursing and Rehabilitation -- 73 people, including 11 deaths (One death announced since Oct. 2.)

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

BOND COUNTY

Total: 40 people infected and four deaths as of Friday, an increase of eight new infections and two deaths since Oct. 2. Long-term care facility residents and staff accounted for 11% of the infections countywide and 44% of the deaths.

--90-bed facility Greenville Nursing and Rehab -- 21 people, including one death (Eight new infections and one death announced since Oct. 2.)

--Cedarhurst of Greenville -- 19 people, including three deaths (One death announced since Oct. 2.)

RANDOLPH COUNTY

Total: 19 people infected as of Friday, an increase of three new infections since Oct. 2. Long-term care facility residents and staff accounted for 2% of the infections countywide.

--Cedarhurst of Sparta -- 10 people

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

--83-bed facility Three Springs Lodge -- three people (Newly reported Friday.)

--115-bed facility Red Bud Regional Care Center -- two 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 virus.

State discrepancies

The Illinois Department of Public Health's information did not match the health departments in St. Clair and Madison counties for 13 long-term care centers on Friday.

The Department of Public Health said there were more cases or deaths at 12 locations in St. Clair County and at one location in Madison County.

The Belleville News-Democrat has not included higher numbers announced by the state in calculating totals if a county health department reports lower numbers.

The state relies on 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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