Coronavirus kills 24 people from Oregon nursing homes-nearly half of state’s COVID-19 toll

New Coronavirus State officials reported Saturday that 24 deaths from seven elderly care homes in Oregon accounted for less than half of all deaths from infection.

This is the first time the state has acknowledged the disease Badly predated About the vulnerable people living in elderly homes, and after the Oregonian / Oregon Live reported on Friday, 10 residents from Foster Creek healthcare reportedly died.

All homes with deaths and outbreaks on the state list are west of the cascade, from the Portland metro area to Kaiser and Corvallis. Most of the deaths seem to be elderly residents. It is not known if the employee is an employee because the state has withdrawn the information.

The overall size of illness and death in nursing homes in Oregon is still unclear as the state excluded about 24 facilities, including at least one case, from the list.

In response to the alarming increase in the incident, the state has signed a contract with one of Portland’s homes and has announced that it will open a 47-bed emergency center to treat elderly patients.

The virus poses a particular threat to the elderly and those with underlying medical conditions, especially those living in group settings such as nursing homes and nursing communities.

The Oregon Health Department, two major health agencies in the state and the state, said in a statement that they are now working together to address the growing threat.

As part of that work, they pooled the data and summarized the numbers of cases and deaths across nursing homes. We used this to create a new number. They are also focused on Foster Creek and Laurelhurst Village, another South East Portland nursing home that has been hit hard by the disease.

“Forming an interdisciplinary team can quickly provide interventions and support to long-term care facilities to help control COVID-19 infection,” said Mike, an interim director of the Department of Human Services. McCormick said. Supervising a nursing home “We are deeply concerned about all caregivers, facility staff, and their families exposed to the virus.”

The two agencies’ efforts include a contract with Laurel Hearst Village to turn one of the facility’s buildings into an emergency center for COVID-19 patients, a disease caused by a coronavirus.

The team finds staff working in nursing homes, nursing homes, and adult nursing homes where outbreaks occur, and assists in obtaining protective equipment. The team has also tried to ensure that sick residents are in quarantine and to determine the cause of the outbreak, state officials said in a statement.

State agencies provided numbers only to nine elderly care facilities with a total of at least five coronavirus cases.

Coronavirus deaths have been recorded in seven of seven homes, from nine people in Foster Creek (state listings include deaths of patients who reported positive to employees at The Oregonian / OregonLive) It does not seem to be). They live in Springbrook Oaks and Laurelhurst Village in Newburgh.

One of the three elderly nursing homes in the Beaverton area, the Regency Park Assist Living and Regency Park Alzheimers Care, Marquis Marian St. Twin Sublimity, and Corvallis Manor, each die one person.

According to state data, nine facilities have a total of more than 135 cases. According to the agency, this number is provisional and is current as of Saturday.

State authorities indicate that at least one patient is currently affected by coronavirus in 32 nursing homes across the state-not including facilities where illness has recovered.

The list of nursing homes and their respective case and death counts does not include 23 centers with fewer than 5 cases, even if one or more patients died. Also, the Oregon Health Department has not provided total cases and deaths for all homes in the state, despite a request for a newsroom one week ago.

As of Saturday, 51 Oregon people have died from the coronavirus or its complications.

Correction: Status information was incorrect. The state reported that four people died while only three were in Lebanon’s veterans’ homes. The state also said that the case numbers in the veterans’ houses were inaccurate but did not provide accurate numbers.

-Fedor Zalkin

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