3 more deaths from St. Clair County long-term care centers with coronavirus outbreaks
Three more people have died in coronavirus outbreaks at St. Clair County long-term care centers, the health department announced Monday.
A total of 88 deaths have now been connected to outbreaks at nursing homes and other care facilities in the county, which is 65% of the 135 deaths countywide.
The latest deaths announced Monday were from Cedar Ridge of Lebanon and Swansea Rehab and Care Center.
The novel virus causes the COVID-19 respiratory disease. Older people and people with chronic health conditions are more vulnerable to severe illness or death from COVID-19.
The St. Clair County Health Department provides daily updates on the long-term care centers and other developments in the county during 3:30 p.m. live streams by the St. Clair County Emergency Management Agency on Facebook.
Here is the information the health department provided Monday on locations that have been in “outbreak status,” with two or more residents or staff who are COVID-19 positive or have COVID-19-like symptoms, since the coronavirus pandemic began. The health department does not provide a breakdown of how many residents or employees are affected. The numbers are cumulative:
- 156-bed facility Four Fountains in Belleville — 104 people, including 27 deaths (No change reported since June 12)
- 116-bed facility Cedar Ridge of Lebanon — 71 people, including 10 deaths (Two more deaths than what was reported Sunday)
- 53-bed facility New Athens Home for the Aged — 57 people, including seven deaths (No change reported since Sunday)
- 90-bed facility Lebanon Care Center — 55 people, including 10 deaths (No change reported since Saturday)
- 140-bed facility BRIA of Belleville — 51 people, including six deaths (No change reported since Saturday)
- 108-bed facility St. Paul’s Home in Belleville — 45 people, including 14 deaths (No change reported since Saturday)
- 82-bed facility Memorial Care Center in Belleville — 44 people, including five deaths (No change reported since June 8)
- 94-bed facility Swansea Rehab and Care Center — 29 people, including six deaths (One more death than what was reported Sunday)
- 133-bed facility BRIA of Cahokia — 25 people, including two deaths (Based on the state’s June 19 data because BRIA of Cahokia is outside of the St. Clair County Health Department’s jurisdiction)
- Cedarhurst of Shiloh — 13 people (No change reported since June 5) Denise Bentele, spokeswoman for Cedarhurst of Shiloh, said previously that 12 residents there had contracted the virus but none of them were positive anymore. She said one employee was positive and not working.
- Caritas Family Solutions in Belleville region — 12 people (No change reported since June 5)
- Knollwood Retirement Center in Caseyville — Eight people, including one death (No change reported since May 25)
- Colonnade Senior Living in O’Fallon — Five people (No change reported since June 7)
- Help at Home in O’Fallon — Five people (No change reported since May 4)
- Caseyville Nursing and Rehab — Four people (No change reported since June 17)
- TDL Inc. in Belleville — Four people (No change reported since May 6)
- 120-bed facility Mercy Rehab and Care Center in Swansea — Two people (No change reported since June 17)
- Atrium of Belleville — Two people (No change reported since June 8) Roberto Roma, the Atrium of Belleville’s executive director, said previously that the two people affected by COVID-19 were an employee who quarantined and a resident who moved out of the facility in March.
- Help at Home in Belleville — Two people (No change reported since May 23)
The website medicare.gov records the number of beds for Medicare- and Medicaid-certified nursing homes.
The following increases in the number of people affected by outbreaks were reported over the weekend:
- Cedar Ridge of Lebanon — One more person announced on Saturday and one more death on Sunday.
- New Athens Home for the Aged — One more person announced Sunday.
- Lebanon Care Center — One more person announced Saturday.
- BRIA of Belleville — One more person announced Saturday.
- St. Paul’s Home — One more person announced Saturday.
