Assisted living center in Swansea reporting coronavirus cases, officials announce
A long-term care center in Swansea is reporting its first cases of the coronavirus, the St. Clair County Health Department announced Tuesday.
County officials’ report on Tuesday included the new location, Bradford Place, which reported four coronavirus cases to the health department. Bradford Place is an assisted living facility that also provides Alzheimer’s disease care.
The health department announced an additional death and a new coronavirus case, both from St. Paul’s Home, bringing the Belleville facility to a total of 54 cases and 15 deaths.
Long-term care residents are among the most vulnerable to severe illness or death from the coronavirus, which causes the COVID-19 respiratory disease. St. Clair County officials provide updates on outbreaks at long-term care centers and other developments in the county on the St. Clair County Emergency Management Agency’s Facebook page.
Here is the information the health department provided Tuesday 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 were affected. The numbers are cumulative:
- 156-bed facility Four Fountains in Belleville — 104 people affected, including 27 deaths (No change reported since June 12. Outbreak first reported April 19.)
- 116-bed facility Cedar Ridge of Lebanon — 73 people, including 10 deaths (No change reported since June 27. First reported May 27.)
- 140-bed facility BRIA of Belleville — 57 people, including seven deaths (No change reported since July 7. First reported April 19.)
- 53-bed facility New Athens Home for the Aged — 57 people, including seven deaths (No change reported since June 21. First reported May 19.)
- 90-bed facility Lebanon Care Center — 56 people, including 11 deaths (No change reported since July 7. First reported April 24.)
- 108-bed facility St. Paul’s Home in Belleville — 54 people, including 15 deaths (One more person and one more death reported Tuesday. First reported April 24.)
- 82-bed facility Memorial Care Center in Belleville — 49 people, including five deaths (No change reported since June 30. First reported April 19.)
- 94-bed facility Swansea Rehab and Care Center — 41 people, including eight deaths (No change reported since July 12. First reported May 12.)
- 133-bed facility BRIA of Cahokia — 29 people, including three deaths (Based on the state’s July 10 data. BRIA of Cahokia is outside of the St. Clair County Health Department’s jurisdiction. First reported May 2.)
- Cedarhurst of Shiloh — 13 people (No change reported since June 19. First reported May 24.) 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. First reported May 4.)
- Knollwood Retirement Center in Caseyville — Eight people, including one death (No change reported since May 25. First reported May 14.)
- Caseyville Nursing and Rehab — Six people (No change reported since Monday. First reported May 28.)
- 150-bed facility Autumn Meadows in Cahokia — Six people (Based on the state’s July 10 data. Autumn Meadows is outside of the St. Clair County Health Department’s jurisdiction. First reported June 26.)
- Colonnade Senior Living in O’Fallon — Five people (No change reported since June 7. First reported April 19.)
- Help at Home in O’Fallon — Five people (No change reported since May 4. First reported May 4.)
- Bradford Place in Swansea — Four people (Newly reported Tuesday)
- 120-bed facility Mercy Rehab and Care Center in Swansea — Four people (No change reported since July 12. First reported June 17.)
- TDL Inc. in Belleville — Four people (No change reported since May 6. First reported May 6.)
- 180-bed facility Integrity Healthcare in Belleville — Three people (No change reported since July 9. First reported July 1.)
- Adaptive Illinois in Belleville — Two people (No change reported since July 5. First reported July 5.)
- Dammert Center at the National Shrine of Our Lady of the Snows — Two people (No change reported since June 23. First reported June 23.) Brenda Fedak, spokeswoman for the health department, said the facility reported one positive test result and one presumptive positive to health officials. The Esquiline, which runs Dammert, said the only confirmed positive was a resident who subsequently tested negative. The Esquiline president Jeff Baker said there were no positives at Dammert and no residents or employees with symptoms as of June 24.
- Cedars of Lebanon — Two people (No change reported since June 23. First reported June 23.)
- Atrium of Belleville — Two people (No change reported since June 8. First reported 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. First reported May 23.)
The website medicare.gov records the number of beds for Medicare- and Medicaid-certified nursing homes.
