Alamance sees 10th and 11th nursing home outbreaks

Oct. 14--Two nursing homes are having repeat COVID-19 outbreaks, according to the Alamance County Health Department, Moneta Springs Memory Care at Twin Lakes in Burlington and Peak Resources in Graham, affecting seven people.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services requires long-term care facilities to test for COVID-19 weekly. That caught two staff members and two residents at Moneta Springs Care infected with the coronavirus and two staff members and one resident at Peak Resources, according to the Alamance County Health Department.

This is the third outbreak at Peak Resources. The most recent ended early this month after 28 days without positive tests. Moneta Springs is the second facility in the 750-resident, 400-employee Twin Lakes Community to have an outbreak. Coble Creek Healthcare and Rehabilitation had a four-person outbreak that also fell off the state's list of outbreaks earlier in October.

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These are the 10th and 11th outbreaks in Alamance County long-term care facilities, according to the Health Department. More than 30 of the county's 63 COVID-19 deaths have been in nursing homes.

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