California names nursing houses with COVID-19 infections -TELEVISION

2 knowledgeable nursing centers in main California are amongst those hit by the COVID-19 pandemic in California, according to information launched by state health officials on Friday.

For the very first time, the California Department of Public Health launched the names of the facilities that have actually been impacted.

According to the information, 258 locations across the state have reported one or more favorable COVID-19 cases in residents or employee.

Authorities stated the list is a picture representing 86%of the state’s 1,224 skilled nursing centers that have actually reported data within the last 24 hours.

Majority of the centers, 148, lie in Los Angeles County.

But 2 facilities in Tulare County – the Redwood Springs Health Center in Visalia and Lindsay Gardens Nursing and Rehab in Lindsay – are also part of the list.

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So far, 106 patients and 50 employee at Redwood Springs have actually checked favorable for the coronavirus, making up approximately 50%of Tulare County’s COVID-19 cases.

10 of those locals of the center have passed away from the virus.

A present staff member of the retirement home declared the variety of cases could have been reduced if management had actually acted earlier.

At Lindsay Gardens, 13 homeowners and 3 employees have up until now tested favorable for the virus.

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The new data drew a quick action from union leaders, who called it a “clarion call to action for everyone.”

” This deadly pandemic is targeting our most susceptible elders. Those charged with taking care of them– low wage employees, often females– are strolling into infection zones without the most standard of defenses,” stated April Verrett, president of Service Worker International Union Resident 2015, in a statement.

Verrett also required “immediate screening” of everybody in those centers as well as daily reporting on infection rates from all proficient retirement home in California.