Nearly half of St. Clair County’s coronavirus deaths were long-term care residents
Fourteen of the 30 people who have died during the coronavirus pandemic in St. Clair County were residents of long-term care centers, the health department said Wednesday.
The St. Clair County Health Department was able to connect more of the previously announced deaths to nursing homes and other residential facilities experiencing coronavirus outbreaks when it gave its daily update Wednesday through a live stream by the St. Clair County Emergency Management Agency on Facebook.
“For those of you who have been following with the daily briefings, you will notice that the numbers that we normally report for long-term care centers, the deaths, have increased,” said Samantha Bierman, the emergency response coordinator for the health department. “I would just like to make you aware that those deaths have been already counted in our totals, and now we are attributing them to the facility that they had resided in before they went into the hospital.”
On Wednesday, the total number of deaths reported out of the long-term care centers was 14, which is nearly half, about 47%, of the deaths countywide.
In nearby Monroe County, nine of the 10 deaths countywide were from Garden Place Columbia, an assisted living facility.
Here is the information the St. Clair County Health Department provided Wednesday on known or suspected COVID-19 patients either because of a test result or their symptoms:
- Four Fountains in Belleville - 49 patients and six deaths (13 more patients and four more deaths than what was reported Tuesday).
- Memorial Care Center in Belleville - 43 patients and five deaths (28 more patients and four more deaths than what was reported Tuesday).
- BRIA of Belleville - 12 patients and two deaths.
- Lebanon Care Center - 14 patients and one death (Nine more patients and one more death than what was reported Tuesday).
- St. Paul’s Home in Belleville - Five patients.
- Colonnade in O’Fallon - Two patients.
