Belleville’s Four Fountains up to 79 possible coronavirus patients due to outbreak
The St. Clair County Health Department said Thursday that 16 more people at Four Fountains in Belleville have either tested positive for COVID-19 or have symptoms of the respiratory disease during a coronavirus outbreak there.
The total number of known or suspected COVID-19 patients out of the long-term care facility has grown to 79 to date, according to health officials.
The health department does not disclose whether those affected are residents or staff. It only says that the totals it reports daily are for long-term care or “congregate living” facilities with two or more residents or employees who have been diagnosed or are showing symptoms.
Two more deaths have also been connected to the outbreak at Lebanon Care Center, according to the health department’s Thursday update.
A total of 27 deaths have been reported out of residential facilities across St. Clair County, which is 49 % of the 55 deaths countywide.
Here is the latest information on known or suspected COVID-19 patients, either because of a test result or their symptoms, at the facilities, according to the St. Clair County Health Department:
- Four Fountains in Belleville - 79 patients and 13 deaths (16 more patients than what was reported Wednesday)
- BRIA of Belleville - 20 patients and two deaths (No change reported since Wednesday)
- Memorial Care Center in Belleville - 43 patients and five deaths (No change reported since April 29)
- Lebanon Care Center - 34 patients and seven deaths (Two more deaths than what was reported Wednesday)
- Caritas Family Solutions in Belleville - Six patients (No change reported since Monday)
- St. Paul’s Home in Belleville - Five patients and one death (No change reported since Monday)
- BRIA of Cahokia - Five patients (No change reported since Saturday)
- Help at Home in O’Fallon - Five patients (No change reported since Monday)
- TDL, Inc. in Belleville - Four patients (No change reported since Wednesday)
- Colonnade in O’Fallon - Three patients (No change reported since Sunday)
The health department’s updates on coronavirus outbreaks and other developments in the county are reported during the St. Clair County Emergency Management Agency’s 3:30 p.m. live streams on Facebook each day.
Once a week, the Illinois Department of Public Health also updates its data on long-term care facilities such as nursing homes with outbreaks statewide at dph.illinois.gov/covid19/long-term-care-facility-outbreaks-covid-19. The information published online is what was submitted to the state by health departments and laboratories a day earlier.
This is the information from the state’s Friday, May 1, update on known or suspected COVID-19 patients elsewhere in the metro-east:
- Edwardsville Care Center - 90 patients and 15 deaths
- Carlyle HealthCare Center - 63 patients and four deaths
- Garden Place Columbia - 34 patients and 10 deaths
- Eden Village Care Center in Glen Carbon - 20 patients and one death
- Heritage Health in Macoupin County - Seven patients
- Oak Hill in Monroe County - Three patients
- Cedarhurst of Sparta - Two patients
- Coulterville Rehabilitation and Health Care Center - Two patients
