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Updated Colerain Township facility to correct name

Corain Township’s facility, Northgate Park, accounts for 37 of the 88 COVID-19s in nursing homes in southwestern Ohio. State reported on Thursday Morning.

At least 700 cases of new coronaviruses have been reported in nursing homes and nursing homes in Ohio, but when asked the number on Wednesday, the state did not publish deaths associated with the virus. Nursing home cases account for 9% of the total statewide.

Hamilton County had 17 nursing homes on the Ohio Department of Health’s list. After The Enquirer and other state media outlets pressured the state this week for more information about nursing homes, the agency announced the institution’s name and number of cases.

Corain Township’s facility Northgate Park, along with another owner, is posted on ODH’s website, but in late 2017, private equity investment firm Chicago Pacific Founders and its subsidiary Grace Management. Was sold to.

A complete list of local nursing homes is at the end of this article.

Long-term and rehabilitation care facilities provide an easy basis for the spread of a novel coronavirus, a highly infectious agent that emerged in China just four months ago. People over the age of 65 and people with chronic illnesses are particularly vulnerable to infections and can lead to COVID-19 (a deadly lung disease).

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There was a case in Butler County Nursing Home, Knowles, Oxford. There were cases in two nursing homes in Warren County. She had six in Sheridan in Mason and one in Cedarview Rehabilitation & Nursing Care in Lebanon. No cases reported to date in a nursing home in Clermont

On Wednesday, Dr. Amy Acton, state health director, signed an order requiring a nursing home, nursing home, and a facility for people with developmental disabilities to notify families with COVID-19 cases within 24 hours. did.

The order was announced Monday, and Acton signed two days after Governor Mike Dewein said he had “lawyers involved.”

The Nursing Home number will be updated on Wednesday at 2 PM. Posted on the State Coronavirus web page.

State and local health departments first told reporters last week that they would not publish the name of the facility. Media throughout Ohio claimed that the name was a public record.

On Monday, when the order to report details was first announced, DeWine announced that the state would disclose the total number of incidents within the facility and the number of incidents per facility.

Contributed by Jacob Myers of Columbus Dispatch

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