Covid 19 has become a nightmare for nursing homes and other senior living facilities as well as their staffs residents and families.
Courtyard nursing home covid 19. These ma nursing homes have the most covid cases boston ma massachusetts officials released how many confirmed coronavirus cases each nursing home rest home and skilled nursing facilities have. With astonishing speed covid 19 ripped through a salem nursing home bringing chaos and grief by laura krantz laura crimaldi and robert weisman globe staff updated may 16 2020 2 49 p m. But more than half of the nursing home deaths 2 350 have occurred at just 84 facilities that have seen. More than half the residents of a lafayette nursing home have tested positive for the coronavirus.
All residents are now being screened for. At least 117 others at the courtyard nursing care center have tested positive for covid 19. Most of the residents who tested positive were asymptomatic. At courtyard a 224 bed facility there were 117 patients and 42 workers with the virus.
Nursing homes and other long term care facilities in massachusetts have been disproportionately affected by the coronavirus collectively they account for almost 62 of all covid 19 related. 54 residents at nursing home die from covid 19 a coronavirus outbreak at courtyard nursing care center in medford has left 54 residents dead and more than half of the residents. Genesis healthcare which operates the courtyard nursing care center in medford mass confirmed that 117 other residents and 42 staff members have also tested positive for covid 19.