Southwestern Illinois nursing homes, care centers add 97 new COVID cases in past week
In the past week, 97 more people who live or work in local nursing homes or other long-term care facilities in southwestern Illinois have contracted the new coronavirus, according to health officials.
Long-term care residents are among the most vulnerable to severe illness or death from the virus, which causes COVID-19.
As of Friday, state and local health officials had recorded a total of 2,396 cases of the virus and 289 deaths tied to long-term care centers in the metro-east region — across St. Clair, Madison, Clinton, Monroe, Bond, Randolph and Washington counties.
Of the people to contract the virus since last week, 67 were from Madison County.
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Southwestern Illinois coronavirus outbreaks
The Illinois Department of Public Health’s updates on long-term care center outbreaks in every county come once a week at dph.illinois.gov/covid19/long-term-care-facility-outbreaks-covid-19. The local health departments in Madison and St. Clair counties also make announcements about numbers from their long-term care centers.
Madison County’s updates on long-term care centers correspond with the state’s each week on Friday. The health department releases the information on its Facebook page.
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.
All of the state and local agencies say they include residents and employees of the facilities in their numbers. Locations with fewer than two cases of the virus are not reported.
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: 992 people infected (including presumptive positives) and 128 deaths as of Friday, an increase of 29 new infections and one death since Oct. 23. Long-term care facility residents and staff accounted for 11% of the infections countywide and 58% of the deaths.
- 156-bed facility Four Fountains in Belleville — 117 people infected, including 29 deaths (Outbreak first reported April 19.)
- 116-bed facility Cedar Ridge of Lebanon — 80 people, including 16 deaths (First reported May 27.)
- 90-bed facility Lebanon Care Center — 78 people, including 12 deaths (First reported April 24.)
- 140-bed facility BRIA of Belleville — 71 people, including eight deaths (First reported April 19.)
- 101-bed facility Integrity Healthcare of Smithton — 60 people, including 10 deaths (First reported Sept. 2. One death announced since Oct. 23.)
- 108-bed facility St. Paul’s Home in Belleville — 60 people, including 15 deaths (First reported April 24.)
- Dammert Center at the National Shrine of Our Lady of the Snows — 59 people, including eight deaths (First reported June 23. Eight new infections announced since Oct. 23.)
- 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 — 44 people, including eight deaths (First reported May 12.)
- 133-bed facility BRIA of Cahokia — 44 people, including three deaths (First reported May 2. Four new infections announced since Oct. 23.)
- Caritas Family Solutions in Belleville region — 43 people (First reported May 4.)
- Caseyville Nursing and Rehab — 35 people, including two deaths (First reported May 28. One new infection announced since Oct. 23.)
- 150-bed facility Autumn Meadows in Cahokia — 26 people (First reported June 26.)
- 120-bed facility Mercy Rehab and Care Center in Swansea — 21 people (First reported June 17. Three new infections announced since Oct. 23.)
- Brightly Senior Living — 20 people (First reported Oct. 16. Eight new infections announced since Oct. 23.)
- 16-bed facility Freeburg Terrace — 20 people, according to the facility (First reported Aug. 24.) Freeburg Terrace executive director Jim Haney said 13 residents and seven employees tested positive for COVID-19.
- Cedarhurst of Shiloh — 16 people (First reported May 24.)
- 180-bed facility Integrity Healthcare in Belleville — 10 people (First reported July 1.)
- Bradford Place in Swansea — nine people (First reported July 14. Four new infections announced since Oct. 23.)
- Knollwood Retirement Center in Caseyville — nine people, including one death (First reported May 14.)
- Parkway Gardens in Fairview Heights — eight people, including one death (First reported Aug. 11.)
- 118-bed facility Freeburg Care Center — eight people (First reported Aug. 9. One new infection announced since Oct. 23.) Freeburg Care Center administrator Amy Bonta said Nov. 11 that everyone who has tested positive for COVID-19 is an employee.
- TDL Inc. in Belleville — eight people (First reported May 6.)
- 55-bed facility Aperion Care Center in Mascoutah — seven people (First reported Sept. 4.)
- Cambridge House in O’Fallon — six people (First reported Aug. 13.)
- Help at Home in Belleville — six people, including one death (First reported May 23.)
- Colonnade Senior Living in O’Fallon — six people (First reported April 19.)
- Help at Home in O’Fallon — five people (First reported May 4.)
- 30-bed facility St. John Bosco Children’s Center — three people (First reported July 16.)
- 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: 906 people infected and 111 deaths as of Friday, an increase of 67 new infections and two deaths since Oct. 23. Long-term care facility residents and staff accounted for 12% of the infections countywide and 70% of the deaths.
- 109-bed facility Stearns Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Granite City — 111 people, including 20 deaths
- 120-bed facility Edwardsville Care Center — 106 people, including 22 deaths
- 70-bed facility Meridian Village — 89 people, including five deaths (Two new infections announced since Oct. 23.)
- Beverly Farm in Godfrey — 85 people, including one death (12 new infections announced since Oct. 23.)
- 128-bed facility Eden Village Care Center in Glen Carbon — 79 people, including 21 deaths (One fewer infection than what was announced Oct. 23.)
- 180-bed facility Riverside Rehab and Healthcare — 70 people, including 17 deaths
- 64-bed facility Alton Memorial Rehab and Therapy — 60 people, including 10 deaths (One new infection announced since Oct. 23.)
- 68-bed facility Integrity of Godfrey — 60 people, including eight deaths
- Alton Mental Health Center — 55 people, according to the Illinois Department of Human Services
- University Care Center — 45 people, including two deaths (31 new infections and one death announced since Oct. 23.)
- Liberty Village of Maryville — 18 people (Six new infections announced since Oct. 23.)
- Cedarhurst of Collinsville — 15 people, including one death (Five new infections and one death announced since Oct. 23.)
- 104-bed facility Elmwood Nursing and Rehab in Maryville — 13 people
- Evergreen Place in Alton — 12 people, including one death
- Cedarhurst of Bethalto — 11 people
- 116-bed facility Care Center at Center Grove in Edwardsville — 10 people
- Cedarhurst of Highland — 10 people. The staff and residents who tested positive have since tested negative, according to the facility.
- Cedarhurst of Godfrey — 10 people
- 181-bed facility Integrity Healthcare of Alton — six people (newly reported Friday)
- 94-bed facility Collinsville Rehabilitation and Healthcare — six people, including two deaths
- Alhambra Rehab and Healthcare — six people
- Villas of Holly Brook in Bethalto — six people
- Cambridge House of Maryville — five people (One new infection announced since Oct. 23.)
- Hitz Memorial Home in Alhambra — four people (Two new infections announced since Oct. 23.
- Eden Village Retirement Community — four people (One new infection announced since Oct. 23.)
- 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: 269 people infected and 18 deaths as of Friday, an increase of one new infections Oct. 23. Long-term care facility residents and staff accounted for 14% of the infections countywide and 58% of the deaths.
- 109-bed facility Carlyle HealthCare Center — 92 people, including 15 deaths
- Warren G. Murray Developmental Center — 74 people, according to the Illinois Department of Human Services (One new infection announced since Oct. 23.)
- Clinton Manor Living Facility — 44 people, including one death
- 112-bed facility Breese Nursing Home — 38 people, including one death
- 97-bed facility Aviston Countryside Manor — 14 people, including one death
- Villa Catherine — seven people
MONROE COUNTY
Total: 153 people infected and 26 deaths as of Friday, an increase of three deaths since Oct. 23. Long-term care facility residents and staff accounted for 15% of the infections countywide and 93% of the deaths.
- 144-bed facility Oak Hill in Waterloo — 94 people, including 13 deaths (One death announced since Oct. 23.)
- Garden Place Columbia — 38 people, including 11 deaths
- 119-bed facility Integrity Healthcare-Columbia Rehab and Care Center — 15 people, including two deaths (Two deaths announced since Oct. 23.)
- Cedarhurst Senior Living in Waterloo — six people
BOND COUNTY
Total: 40 people infected and four deaths as of Friday. Long-term care facility residents and staff accounted for 7% of the infections countywide and 40% of the deaths.
- 90-bed facility Greenville Nursing and Rehab — 21 people, including one death
- Cedarhurst of Greenville — 19 people, including three deaths
RANDOLPH COUNTY
Total: 34 people infected and one death as of Friday, an increase of one death since Oct. 23. Long-term care facility residents and staff accounted for 2% of the infections countywide and 6% of the deaths.
- 115-bed facility Red Bud Regional Care Center — 15 people, including one death
- Cedarhurst of Sparta — 10 people
- 75-bed facility Coulterville Rehabilitation & Health Care Center — six people
- 83-bed facility Three Springs Lodge — three people
- Whitney Oberlink, administrator of the Coulterville Rehabilitation and Health Care Center, said previously that two of the people affected by COVID-19 there were employees and that they recovered from the virus.
WASHINGTON COUNTY
Total: Two people infected and one death as of Friday. Long-term care facility residents and staff accounted for 1% of the infections countywide and 50% of the deaths.
- Washington County Hospital, long-term care unit — two people, including one death
State discrepancies
The Illinois Department of Public Health’s update did not match information from the health departments in St. Clair and Madison counties for 15 long-term care centers on Friday.
The Department of Public Health said there were more cases or deaths at three locations in Madison County and at 12 locations in St. Clair County, including three facilities where St. Clair County has not reported outbreaks.
The St. Clair County Health Department has not responded to a Belleville News-Democrat query about the three long-term care centers that are not included in its report on outbreaks.
The BND has not included numbers announced by the state in calculating totals if a county health department reports lower numbers.
The state relies on 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 November 1, 2020 at 6:00 AM.
