LUTHERAN CARE DEALING WITH COVID CASES

LUTHERAN CARE DEALING WITH COVID CASES

Dealing with a cluster of coronavirus cases.

Although the virus obviously struck the very vulnerable patient population.....there was a surprise effect.

Or.....'non- effect'.

Newschannel 2's joleen ferris reports.

Working in close quarters with a vulnerable population, nursing homes were hit especially hard in the coronavirus pandemic.

Recently, lutheran care, in clinton, had a few patients test positive.

As a precaution, they tested the whole unit.

And got two surprises 1:38:04 "we decided to be proactive and test the entire unit and as it turns out, we did have 16 positive out of the 40 residents" stand up 2:00:42 "some of those positive diagnoses came as a surprise, because the patients, although members of a vulnerable population, weren't actually sick" 1:36:48 "but in a majority of the cases, they were asymptomatic"pl hospitals.

Once they leavepresbt before they're back in normal quarters.

As far as when nursing homes can go back to normal and welcome families back to see their loved ones, well, that could be a long time.

D'apice is on the county's nursing home covid task force.

1:41:11 "we just had a call yesterday as far as when are the nursing homes gonna get to open and they're basically telling us that you have to have 28 days of no covid cases.

You have to be fully staffed and the hospitals have to be able to take the influx of patients, if they get that" for now, they do the best they can to contain a pandemic and protect like many nursing homes, lutheran care, in clinton, is dealing