Coronavirus outbreaks growing at long-term care centers in St. Clair, Madison counties
In the past week, 102 more people who live or work in long-term care facilities, such as nursing homes, across southwestern Illinois have contracted the novel coronavirus, according to health officials.
Long-term care residents are among the most vulnerable to severe illness or death from the virus, which causes the COVID-19 respiratory disease. Older people and those with existing health conditions are at greater risk, according to experts.
As of Friday, state and local health officials had recorded a total of 1,567 cases of the virus and 212 deaths tied to long-term care centers in the metro-east region — across St. Clair, Madison, Clinton, Monroe, Randolph, Bond counties. St. Clair County also counts presumptive positives, or people who have symptoms of COVID-19 without a positive test result.
Of the 102 people to contract the virus since last week, 62 were from Madison County and 31 from St. Clair County.
Southwestern Illinois coronavirus outbreaks
The St. Clair County Health Department provides daily updates on the outbreaks and other developments in the county on the St. Clair County Emergency Management Agency’s Facebook page. The state’s updates on outbreaks come once a week at dph.illinois.gov/covid19/long-term-care-facility-outbreaks-covid-19.
Madison County’s updates from long-term care centers correspond with the state’s each week on Friday. The county health department releases the information on its Facebook page.
All of the state and local agencies say they include residents and employees of the facilities in their numbers.
The website medicare.gov records the number of beds for Medicare- and Medicaid-certified nursing homes.
Here is the latest information from health officials on the total number of people who have been infected with the coronavirus at each facility since the start of the pandemic:
ST. CLAIR COUNTY
Total: 738 people infected (including presumptive positives) and 107 deaths as of Friday. Long-term care facility residents and staff accounted for 13% of the infections countywide and 61% of the deaths.
- 156-bed facility Four Fountains in Belleville — 111 people, including 27 deaths (First reported April 19.)
- 116-bed facility Cedar Ridge of Lebanon — 79 people, including 16 deaths (First reported May 27.)
- 140-bed facility BRIA of Belleville — 66 people, including eight deaths (First reported April 19.)
- 90-bed facility Lebanon Care Center — 62 people, including 12 deaths (First reported April 24.)
- 108-bed facility St. Paul’s Home in Belleville — 57 people, including 15 deaths (First reported April 24.)
- 53-bed facility New Athens Home for the Aged — 57 people, including nine deaths (First reported May 19.)
- 82-bed facility Memorial Care Center in Belleville — 50 people, including five deaths (First reported April 19.)
- 94-bed facility Swansea Rehab and Care Center — 41 people, including eight deaths (First reported May 12.)
- 133-bed facility BRIA of Cahokia — 36 people, including three deaths (First reported May 2.)
- Caseyville Nursing and Rehab — 29 people, including two deaths (First reported May 28.)
- Caritas Family Solutions in Belleville region — 26 people (First reported May 4.)
- 16-bed facility Freeburg Terrace — 20 people (First reported Aug. 24.) Freeburg Terrace Executive Director Jim Haney said Friday that 13 residents and seven employees contracted the virus.
- Cedarhurst of Shiloh — 13 people (First reported May 24.) Denise Bentele, spokeswoman for Cedarhurst of Shiloh, said previously that 12 residents had contracted the virus, but none of them were positive anymore. She said one employee was positive and not working.
- 150-bed facility Autumn Meadows in Cahokia — 10 people (First reported June 26.)
- 120-bed facility Mercy Rehab and Care Center in Swansea — nine people (first reported June 17).
- Knollwood Retirement Center in Caseyville — eight people, including one death (First reported May 14.)
- TDL Inc. in Belleville — eight people (First reported May 6.)
- 180-bed facility Integrity Healthcare in Belleville — seven people (First reported July 1.)
- Colonnade Senior Living in O’Fallon — seven people (First reported April 19.)
- Help at Home in Belleville — six people, including one death (First reported May 23.)
- Cambridge House in O’Fallon — five people (First reported Aug. 13.)
- Parkway Gardens in Fairview Heights — five people (First reported Aug. 11.)
- 118-bed facility Freeburg Care Center — five people (First reported Aug. 9.) Freeburg Care Center Administrator Amy Bonta said the five people affected by COVID-19 are employees.
- Help at Home in O’Fallon — five people (First reported May 4.)
- Bradford Place in Swansea — four people (First reported July 14.)
- 30-bed facility St. John Bosco Children’s Center — three people (First reported July 16.)
- Dammert Center at the National Shrine of Our Lady of the Snows — three people (First reported June 23.)
- Adaptive Illinois in Belleville — two people (First reported July 5.)
- Cedars of Lebanon — two people (First reported June 23.)
- Atrium of Belleville — two people (First reported June 8.) Roberto Roma, the Atrium of Belleville’s executive director, said previously that the two people affected were an employee who quarantined and a resident who moved out of the facility in March.
MADISON COUNTY
Total: 552 people infected and 78 deaths as of Friday. Long-term care facility residents and staff accounted for 15% of the infections countywide and 82% of the deaths.
- 109-bed facility Stearns Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Granite City — 107 people, including 13 deaths
- 120-bed facility Edwardsville Care Center — 101 people, including 22 deaths
- 128-bed facility Eden Village Care Center in Glen Carbon — 69 people, including 20 deaths
- 180-bed facility Riverside Rehab and Healthcare — 66 people, including 17 deaths
- 64-bed facility Alton Memorial Rehab and Therapy — 40 people, including two deaths
- Beverly Farm in Godfrey — 35 people, according to the facility
- Alton Mental Health Center — 24 people
- 70-bed facility Meridian Village — 22 people
- 68-bed facility Integrity of Godfrey — 11 people
- Cedarhurst of Godfrey — 10 people
- Liberty Village of Maryville — nine people
- 104-bed facility Elmwood Nursing and Rehab in Maryville — nine people
- Cedarhurst of Highland — nine people
- Cedarhurst of Bethalto — seven people
- 94-bed facility Collinsville Rehabilitation and Healthcare — six people, including two deaths
- University Care Center — six people, including one death
- Villas of Holly Brook in Bethalto — six people
- 116-bed facility Care Center at Center Grove in Edwardsville — five people
- 86-bed facility Granite City Nursing and Rehab — three people, including one death
- Faith Countryside — three people
- Cedarhurst of Edwardsville — two people
- Highland Healthcare — two people
CLINTON COUNTY
Total: 195 people infected and 16 deaths as of Friday. Long-term care facility residents and staff accounted for 28% of the infections countywide and 94% of the deaths.
- 109-bed facility Carlyle HealthCare Center — 85 people, including 15 deaths
- Warren G. Murray Developmental Center — 62 people
- Clinton Manor Living Facility — 41 people, including one death
- Villa Catherine — seven people
PERRY COUNTY
Total: 70 people infected and six deaths as of Friday. Long-term care facility residents and staff accounted for 24% of the infections countywide and 75% of the deaths.
- Pinckneyville Nursing and Rehabilitation — 70 people, including six deaths
MONROE COUNTY
Total: 67 people infected and 11 deaths as of Friday. Long-term care facility residents and staff accounted for 15% of the infections countywide and 85% of the deaths.
- Garden Place Columbia — 38 people, including 11 deaths
- 119-bed facility Integrity Healthcare-Columbia Rehab and Care Center — 15 people
- 144-bed facility Oak Hill in Waterloo — eight people
- Cedarhurst Senior Living in Waterloo — six people
JERSEY COUNTY
Total: 54 people infected and three deaths as of Friday. Long-term care facility residents and staff accounted for 21% of the infections countywide and 60% of the deaths.
- Liberty Village of Jerseyville — 54 people, including three deaths
MACOUPIN COUNTY
Total: 31 people infected as of Friday. Long-term care facility residents and staff accounted for 8% of the infections countywide.
- Heritage Health Gillespie — 20 people
- 98-bed facility Carlinville Rehabilitation and Health Care Center — five people
- Heritage Health Staunton — two people
- Heritage Health Carlinville — two people
- Sunrise Skilled Nursing and Rehabilitation Center — two people
RANDOLPH COUNTY
Total: 10 people infected as of Friday. Long-term care facility residents and staff accounted for 1% of the infections countywide.
- Cedarhurst of Sparta — eight people
- 75-bed facility Coulterville Rehabilitation & Health Care Center — two people
Whitney Oberlink, administrator of the Coulterville Rehabilitation and Health Care Center, said previously that the two people affected by COVID-19 there were both employees and that they recovered from the disease.
BOND COUNTY
Total: five people infected as of Friday. Long-term care facility residents and staff accounted for 4% of the infections countywide.
- 90-bed facility Greenville Nursing and Rehab — five people
Discrepancies
The Illinois Department of Public Health’s information did not match the St. Clair County Health Department’s for several long-term care centers on Friday.
The Department of Public Health said there were more cases or deaths at seven locations.
The Belleville News-Democrat has not included higher numbers announced by the state in calculating totals.
The state relies on local health departments for the information it reports and says on its website that the local agencies will have “the most up-to-date data.”
Health departments and individual facilities in the metro-east have previously said the state’s data was off.
This story was originally published August 29, 2020 at 7:00 AM.
