PARMA, Ohio — Parma Fire Chief Mike Lasky said at least eight people at a Parma nursing home tested positive for coronavirus.

Lasky cautioned that his numbers at ManorCare nursing home are incomplete because he’s only been told of positive tests from residents of the home who came into contact with his EMS employees.

The city’s medical director, Dr. Sheldon Rose of University Hospitals Parma Medical Center, said he told Lasky that there were at least 30 other cases that ManorCare was “worried about,” but that he has not been told if those patients have been tests.

UPDATE: Parma nursing home says 14 patients and employees have tested positive for coronavirus

ManorCare spokeswoman Julie Beckert declined to provide any information on how many patients or staff have tested positive. Cuyahoga County Board of Health Commissioner Terry Allen and Health Director Heidi Gullet on Wednesday also refused to release information on the cluster of cases they’re investigating citing privacy concerns.

Kevin Brennan, the spokesman for the board of health, said he would not comment on the numbers Lasky provided to cleveland.com.

Cuyahoga County Board of Health officials on Friday released information on positive cases by zipcode. ManorCare’s zipcode, 44133, tied for the highest in the county with between 10-16 cases. The board of health has not updated those numbers.

Cuyahoga County as of Wednesday has 589 cases and nine deaths, according to the Ohio Department of Health.

The county board of health late Tuesday confirmed they are investigating a cluster of cases at Manor Care.

ManorCare is a nursing home that also offers outpatient and short-term rehabilitation services. It’s one of the largest nursing home chains in the country.

The facility holds a maximum of 130 people and, as of March 10, had 108 live-in patients, according to Ohio Health Department inspection records.

Parma Fire Union Local 639 President Anthony Hyatt said two EMS workers who transported a patient on March 22 from ManorCare were ordered to self-quarantine after the patient tested positive for Covid-19.

Hyatt said the firefighters weren’t notified for 30 hours and that the firefighters worked 23 of those hours. The firefighters are not showing any signs or symptoms.

Lasky said his department was asked to transport seven more residents from MannorCare over the weekend who already tested positive for COVID-19. Lasky said he declined to transport the patients at the direction of the county health board. He said he told the nursing home to find private transportation.

Lasky said he’s ordered his medics to wear N95 masks, gowns, goggles and other protective gear on every call.

He also said that all hospitals and the county board of health are not telling his department if someone they transported to an area hospital later tested positive for COVID-19.

University Hospitals relay that information but other hospitals — MetroHealth and Cleveland Clinic — do not.

“I wish they would,” Lasky said. “That’s what wakes me up at 3 in the morning. The guys, trying to keep everyone safe.”

Lasky said he’s set up housing for firefighters and police officers to use if they believe they’ve been exposed to the virus so they don’t spread it to family members.

“I’d rather have to deal with a fire because at least there’s an end to this,” Lasky said. There’s no end in sight to this right now.”

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