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An employee at a senior care home for people with dementia has tested positive for the new coronavirus, managers said Thursday, raising the number of elder care homes in Oregon with infected employees or residents to four. The person works at Maryville Memory Care in Beaverton and does not provide direct care to residents, said Stacy Kean, a spokeswoman for Sisters of St. Mary of Oregon...

State leaders on Thursday affirmed its previous total of six coronavirus clusters — and named two more — even as they said they expect that number to grow, especially within communities housing the elderly who are at the highest risk of serious complications if sickened by the virus. The St. James Place home in Baton Rouge and the Vista Shores Assisted Living and Memory Care...

Five employees have tested positive for COVID-19 at an assisted-living facility that has already seen two residents die from the disease and over a dozen residents become infected. Officials at Ridgefield Crossings , a facility operated by Benchmark Senior Living off Route 7, said Thursday an additional employee there is awaiting test results for the virus. “These associates,...

More than one Jacksonville long-term care facility has a patient who has tested positive for the novel coronavirus, but state and federal officials will not name the facilities where people got sick or say how many sick patients they have. News4Jax learned Thursday that Taylor Manor on Chester Avenue in the San Jose area has one patient who tested positive. We have one resident who is...

A Blair assisted living facility is on lockdown after two residents and a healthcare worker tested positive for COVID-19 this week. This is the first coronavirus outbreak at a nursing facility within the state of Nebraska, according to Terra Uhing, executive director of Three Rivers Public Health Department. Uhing said the confirmed cases — a woman in her 90s and a man in his 70s...