Latest numbers on coronavirus outbreaks at residential facilities in St. Clair County
The St. Clair County Health Department on Wednesday announced that an additional 14 possible COVID-19 patients have been linked to a coronavirus outbreak at Lebanon Care Center.
The health department had been reporting 37 people possibly infected with the virus at the 90-bed Lebanon facility in its updates on the outbreaks at long-term care facilities each day since May 10. On Wednesday, the number of people affected grew to 51, including eight deaths.
Here is the latest information the St. Clair County Health Department provided Wednesday on the number of people known or suspected to have COVID-19, either because of a test result or their symptoms (except for Four Fountains, which is only reporting positive test results):
- 156-bed facility Four Fountains in Belleville - 103 people, including 16 deaths (No change reported since Tuesday)
- 90-bed facility Lebanon Care Center - 51 people, including eight deaths (14 more people than what was reported Tuesday)
- 82-bed facility Memorial Care Center in Belleville - 43 people, including five deaths (No change reported since April 29)
- 140-bed facility BRIA of Belleville - 23 people, including two deaths (No change reported since Sunday)
- 108-bed facility St. Paul’s Home in Belleville - 10 people, including three deaths (No change reported since Monday)
- 133-bed facility BRIA of Cahokia - Eight people (No change reported since Monday)
- Caritas Family Solutions in Belleville - Six people (No change reported since May 4)
- Help at Home in O’Fallon - Five people (No change reported since May 4)
- Swansea Rehab and Care Center - Four people (No change reported since Tuesday)
- TDL, Inc. in Belleville - Four people (No change reported since May 6)
- Colonnade Senior Living in O’Fallon - Three people (No change reported since May 3)
The numbers could include residents or employees, according to the health department.
The health department notes in its updates each day that the numbers out of long-term care facilities could also include people who have tested positive or people who have COVID-19 like symptoms. Those updates take place during 3:30 p.m. live streams by the St. Clair County Emergency Management Agency on Facebook.
During the state’s daily COVID-19 briefing Wednesday, Gov. J.B. Pritzker said Illinois had provided 30,000 coronavirus tests to 129 facilities across the state since he announced April 20 that testing was ramping up at nursing homes. He did not identify the places that have received test.
Four Fountains Administrator Christy Warcup said in an interview Tuesday that the Belleville facility tested all residents and employees between May 1-4. She said increased testing is the reason Four Fountains has the highest number of people with COVID-19 of the facilities in St. Clair County. And many of the residents and staff there with positive test results were asymptomatic, according to Warcup, so they would not have known they had the virus and could infect others unless they were tested.
The website medicare.gov records the number of beds for Medicare- and Medicaid-certified nursing homes.
This story was originally published May 13, 2020 at 5:34 PM.
