ST. LOUIS — The coronavirus has reached a second area nursing home, sickening four residents and two employees at Life Care Center of St. Louis, an official confirmed Thursday.

The four residents of Life Care Center are hospitalized, the home’s executive director Sean Buckley said in a written statement. The two employees were directed to stay at home.

Life Care Center, at 3520 Chouteau Avenue, is owned by the same company that operates the Life Care Center of Kirkland, near Seattle, where 37 people have died from a COVID-19 outbreak. Another Life Care facility in Kansas City was the site of Kansas’ first coronavirus death.

Buckley said the first of the six cases at Life Care Center of St. Louis was confirmed Tuesday in a resident who was hospitalized March 18 at SSM Health St. Mary’s Hospital in Richmond Heights.

Two residents who later exhibited symptoms of the coronavirus were taken to the hospital Monday, Buckley said. A fourth resident was hospitalized Tuesday.

Buckley did not release more details about the COVID-19 cases, and a company spokesperson did not respond to a request for additional information.

Also on Thursday, an employee of Frontier Health and Rehabilitation Center in St. Charles tested positive for COVID-19.