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Southwestern Illinois nursing homes, care centers add 47 new COVID cases in past week

Belleville News-Democrat - 10/4/2020

Oct. 4--In the past week, 47 more people who live or work in local nursing homes or other long-term care facilities 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 COVID-19.

As of Friday, state and local health officials had recorded a total of 2,006 cases of the virus and 252 deaths tied to long-term care centers in the metro-east region -- across St. Clair, Madison, Clinton, Monroe, Bond and Randolph counties.

Friday marked the smallest increase in new infections of the past month.

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. No changes were reported out of facilities in Perry County in the Southern Illinois region.

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Help the Belleville News-Democrat report on nursing homes and other long-term care centers across southwestern Illinois during the coronavirus pandemic. We're looking for nursing home workers, residents and family members who are willing to share their experiences of the pandemic with us. Contact investigative reporter Lexi Cortes at acortes@bnd.com or 618-239-2528.

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: 905 people infected (including presumptive positives) and 117 deaths as of Friday, an increase of 10 new infections and five more deaths since Sept. 25. Long-term care facility residents and staff accounted for 12% of the infections countywide and 60% of the deaths.

--156-bed facility Four Fountains in Belleville -- 117 people, including 28 deaths (First reported outbreak April 19. Two new infections announced since Sept. 25.)

--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.)

--108-bed facility St. Paul's Home in Belleville -- 59 people, including 15 deaths (First reported April 24.)

--101-bed facility Integrity Healthcare of Smithton -- 58 people, including six deaths (First reported Sept. 2. One new infection and four more deaths announced since Sept. 25.)

--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. One new infection announced since Sept. 25.)

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

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

--Dammert Center at the National Shrine of Our Lady of the Snows -- 35 people, including three deaths (First reported June 23. Three new infections and one more death announced since Sept. 25.)

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

--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 contracted the virus.

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

--Cedarhurst of Shiloh -- 15 people (First reported May 24. One new infection announced since Sept. 25.)

--120-bed facility Mercy Rehab and Care Center in Swansea -- 14 people (First reported June 17.)

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

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

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

--Parkway Gardens in Fairview Heights -- seven people (First reported Aug. 11. Two new infections announced since Sept. 25.)

--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: 741 people infected and 105 deaths as of Friday, an increase of 10 new infections and five more deaths since Sept. 25. Long-term care facility residents and staff accounted for 12% of the infections countywide and 74% 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 -- 78 people, including 21 deaths (One more death announced since Sept. 25.)

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

--70-bed facility Meridian Village -- 64 people, including four deaths (Three new infections and four deaths announced since Sept. 25.)

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

--64-bed facility Alton Memorial Rehab and Therapy -- 59 people, including eight deaths

--Alton Mental Health Center -- 51 people (One new infection announced since Sept. 25.)

--Beverly Farm in Godfrey -- 37 people (Two new infections announced since Sept. 25.)

--Evergreen Place in Alton -- 13 people, including one death (Four new infections announced since Sept. 25.)

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

--116-bed facility Care Center at Center Grove in Edwardsville -- 10 people

--Liberty Village of Maryville -- 10 people

--Cedarhurst of Highland -- 10 people

--Cedarhurst of Godfrey -- 10 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

--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: 211 people infected and 16 deaths as of Friday, an increase of six new infections since Sept. 25. (The state's website no longer listed Community Link Assisted Living Facility in Aviston on Friday. Last week, the state announced two cases of the virus there.) Long-term care facility residents and staff accounted for 16% of the infections countywide and 76% of the deaths.

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

--Warren G. Murray Developmental Center -- 69 people, according to the Illinois Department of Human Services (Three new infections since Sept. 25.)

--Clinton Manor Living Facility -- 44 people, including one death (Three new infections since Sept. 25.)

--Villa Catherine -- seven people

MONROE COUNTY

Total: 101 people infected and 12 deaths as of Friday, an increase of 18 new infections and one more death since Sept. 25. Long-term care facility residents and staff accounted for 14% of the infections countywide and 67% of the deaths.

--144-bed facility Oak Hill in Waterloo -- 42 people, including one death (Eighteen new infections and one death announced since Sept. 25.)

--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: 96 people infected and 12 deaths as of Friday, an increase of three new infections and three more deaths since Sept. 25. Long-term care facility residents and staff accounted for 24% of the infections countywide and 63% of the deaths.

--Liberty Village of Jerseyville -- 96 people, including 12 deaths

PERRY COUNTY

Total: 79 people infected and 11 deaths as of Friday. Long-term care facility residents and staff accounted for 22% of the infections countywide and 69% of the deaths.

--Pinckneyville Nursing and Rehabilitation -- 73 people, including 10 deaths

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

BOND COUNTY

Total: 32 people infected and two deaths as of Friday, an increase of three new infections and two deaths since Sept. 25. Long-term care facility residents and staff accounted for 9% of the infections countywide and 22% of the deaths.

--Cedarhurst of Greenville -- 19 people, including two deaths (Two deaths announced since Sept. 25.)

--90-bed facility Greenville Nursing and Rehab -- 13 people (Three new infections announced since Sept. 25.)

RANDOLPH COUNTY

Total: 16 people infected as of Friday. 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

--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 several 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 two locations 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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