RICHMOND — Half of the residents of a nursing home on the city's southeast side are either positive for COVID-19 or are presumed to be so after an outbreak of the novel coronavirus there.
As of about 9 a.m. Wednesday, a dashboard for facilities of parent company Trilogy Health Services showed Forest Park Health Campus in Richmond with 32 of its 63 residents either positive for COVID-19 or presumed to be so. Nearly a quarter of the staff (18 of 82) fit the same description.
Since the pandemic began back in March, Forest Park has had 73 COVID-19 cases among its staff and residents with four deaths attributed to the virus.
"One of the things that we live in fear of at the health department is an outbreak in a nursing home," Wayne County Health Officer Dr. David Jetmore said on Friday's episode of "Ask the Doctors" on Whitewater Community Television.
"This is exactly the part of our population that we do not want to get infected. They're the most susceptible to serious symptoms and even death."
Wayne County's most recent COVID-19 death was a 95-year-old woman who lived at Forest Park, according to a family member. She died Saturday.
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