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A 96-year-old resident at Spring Creek by Bonaventure , a senior living facility, has tested positive for the new coronavirus, a company representative confirmed to The Bellingham Herald on Friday, March 27. The man, who has no symptoms and is doing well, moved into Spring Creek on March 16 after being discharged from Shuksan Healthcare Center , according to Jeremiah Gray, director of...

A local woman is speaking out after COVID-19 put her in the hospital. Priscilla Mata is a Certified Nursing Assistant at Southeast Nursing and Rehab but is not the only person at the Nursing Home to have COVID-19. In a press release, the Nursing Home said a resident there also has the virus. It's something Mata said the Nursing Home needs to be careful with so no one else gets...

A cluster of COVID-19 cases at the A. Holly Patterson Extended Care Facility in Uniondale has grown from 18 to 21 as nursing homes across Long Island brace for an increase in coronavirus cases and work to equip their facilities with ventilators, officials said Friday. Nassau Democratic Minority Leader Kevan Abrahams, whose district includes Uniondale, said all patients at A. Holly...

Another nursing home in Missouri is dealing with a coronavirus outbreak after four residents and two workers tested positive. The residents from Life Care Center of St. Louis are hospitalized and the workers are recovering at home, the director of the facility said in an email statement sent to The Star. This is the third outbreak for Life Care Centers of America , which also...

Two residents of a Mount Airy nursing home have tested positive for the novel coronavirus and more than 60 other residents are awaiting test results, according to a county health department news release. The residents with COVID-19, the disease caused by coronavirus, are women in their 50s at Pleasant View Nursing Home , in Carroll County, the Friday night release reads. They have been...