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KCRA 3’S MARLEI MARTINEZ BREAKS DOWN THE DATA. MARLEI: TODAY, A GLIMPSE AT THE NURSING HOME WITH THE LARGEST KNOWN OUTBREAK IN OUR AREA. 55 PEOPLE INFECTED WITH THE CORONAVIRUS, 31 WORKERS AND 24 PATIENTS. THIS ACCORDING TO THE STATE’S NEW LIST OF NURSING HOMES WITH SICK WORKERS ARE PATIENTS. A TOTAL OF 43 FACILITIES IN THESE NORTHERN CALIFORNIA COUNTIES. THESE ARE THE SIX NURSING HOMES AND SACRAMENTO COUNTY. CASA COLOMA HEALTH CARE CENTER, MANORCARE HEALTH SERVICES IN CITRUS HEIGHTS, AND WINDSOR EL CAMINO HAVE AT LEAST ONE INFECTED PATIENT. ESKATON CARE CENTER MANZANITA, MID-TOWN OAKS POST-ACUTE, AND ACC CARE CENTER ON RUSH RIVER DRIVE HAVE AT LEAST ONE INFECTED WORKER. >> WE PICKED UP ON THE FACT THAT THE PARENT ACTUALLY HAD SYMPTOMS. WE CENTER HOME. MARLEI: ACC HAS THREE FACILITIES AND ONE COVID CASE, A TESTAMENT TO THEIR MITIGATION EFFORTS. STAFFERS HAVE TO SIGN OFF AT THE START OF EACH SHIFT THAT THEY ARE SYMPTOM-FREE AND HAVE NOT KNOWINGLY BEEN EXPOSED TO THE CORONAVIRUS. THE CENTER PROVIDING MASKS TO ALL WORKERS AND PATIENTS. >> WE ARE TAKING TEMPERATURES OF THE STAFF WHEN THEY COME TO WORK. WE ARE TAKING TEMPERATURES OF RESIDENCE EVERY SHIFT. >> WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE TO KEEP THOSE NUMBERS AS CLOSE TO ZERO AS POSSIBLE? >> I THINK THAT A REAL KEY TO KEEP NUMBERS AS LOW AS THEY HAVE BEEN AT ACC IS VIGILANCE OF OUR LEADERSHIP TEAM AND OUR STAFF WORKING TOGETHER. MARLEI: WE REACHED OUT TO ST. JOHN CITY. THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR DECLINING AN INTERVIEW. INSTEAD SAYING IN A STATEMENT, THIS NEW NURSING HOME LIST IS NOT COMPLETE. OUT OF ALL THE STATES NURSING HOMES, 20% HAVE REPORTED COVID CASES. THE LIST IS 86% OF THAT REPORTED DATA. THE STATE CALLING IT A POINT IN TIME SNAPSHOT. >> THERE ARE REQUESTS FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES TO DO THE SAME. MARLEI: HEALTH CARE EXPERTS HOPEFUL THIS DAT

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On Friday night, the California Department of Public Health released a list of nursing homes with workers or patients sick with the coronavirus. The list shows 43 skilled nursing facilities in Northern California, including six facilities in Sacramento County and one in Yolo County. According to the state list, Stollwood Convalescent Hospital in St. John’s Retirement Village in Woodland has the largest reported nursing home outbreak in the Sacramento region. There are 55 people infected with the coronavirus including 31 workers and 24 patients. One patient has reportedly died at the facility, though the state’s new list does not include deaths.“At this time the care of our residents and staff is our number one priority. We are working 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to protect our staff and residents,” said Sean Beloud.Beloud is the CEO of St. John’s Retirement Village. He declined an interview with KCRA to discuss the safety measures in place to protect patients and workers, instead pointing to the facility’s website.The website lists an infection control plan including monitoring residents' and workers' symptoms and temperatures. It also mentions the creation of isolation wings for COVID-19 residents, testing all employees and residents and closing the kitchen. All food for residents is now prepared by restaurants or the local hospital instead. In Sacramento County, Casa Coloma Health Care Center, Manorcare Health Services in Citrus Heights and Windsor El Camino are listed as having at least one infected patient. Mid-Town Oaks Post-Acute and ACC Care Center on Rush River Drive are listed on the state site as having at least one infected worker.Melanie Segar, the Chief Operating Officer of ACC Care Center, said they have only one sick employee. Segar said the woman was asymptomatic and the facility caught it early thanks to daily surveillance. “Picked up on the fact that the parent actually had symptoms. So we sent her home,” said Segar. ACC has three facilities with 140 residents and 170 employees. Segar said their one asymptomatic case is a testament to their mitigation efforts. Staffers have to sign off at the start of each shift that they are symptom-free and have not knowingly been exposed to the coronavirus. The center also stopped group activities and provided masks to all workers and patients. “We’re also taking the temperature of staff when they come into work and we’re taking temperatures of residents every shift,” Segar said. “I think that a real key to being able to keep numbers as low as they have been at ACC is the vigilance of our leadership team and our staff working together to make sure we’re doing the very best we can for our residents and staff.”The state list also shows Eskaton Care Center Manzanita as only having sick workers. The facility’s Chief Operating Officer Betsy Donovan clarified that Eskaton has two staffers who tested positive for COVID-19 and one sick resident. “I am happy to say that the resident recovered and returned to her home,” Donovan said.Donovan said the two staffers are doing “well.” She said the facility is following all expert recommendations and are restricting visitors, screening staff every shift for symptoms and temperature and requiring staff who are not feeling well to stay home. “Our employees have been amazing,” Donovan said. “They show up everyday to care for this vulnerable population and take the training they have received very seriously.”On Saturday, Gov. Gavin Newsom talked about the state’s two most at-risk groups at a news conference about providing hotel and motel rooms to the homeless during the COVID-19 outbreak.“No more vulnerable than the seniors in addition of course to the homeless that we are highlighting here today,” Newsom said. “We put out specifics yesterday in all of our skilled nursing facilities of the total number of facilities and the exact sites where we have positives. There are requests, appropriately, in for the Department of Social Services to do the same.” The new list from the state is not complete. Out of all the state’s nursing homes, about 20% have reported COVID-19 cases. The list includes 86% of that reported data. For example, the list does not yet include the statistics for Carlton Senior Living in Elk Grove that has seen at least one COVID-related death. The state is calling the information a “point in time snapshot.”Before the data was released, Newsom said on Friday that the information would be updated.“We will continue to try to update it, make it more granular. We have HIPPA and patient privacy concerns. So it may not be everything everybody wants, but it is a substantial leap forward in providing you that information that you correctly deserve,” he said.Healthcare experts are hopeful that the new data will guide resources to the facilities that need them most.