115 nursing home residents, staff test positive for COVID-19 in Sumner County, Tenn.

[Dennis Donovan]

https://www.wmcactionnews5.com/2020/03/30/nursing-home-residents-staff-test-positive-covid-sumner-county/


By WMCActionNews5.com Staff | March 29, 2020 at 7:59 PM CDT - Updated March 29 at 9:35 PM

SUMNER COUNTY, Tenn. (WMC) - More than 100 residents and staff at the Gallatin Center for Rehabilitation have tested positive for the novel coronavirus after receiving test results Sunday.

According to WSMV in Nashville, Sumner County officials have reported two of those residents died due to the virus.

Just days after Tennessee Governor Bill Lee signed the executive order restricting outside visitors to enter assisted living facilities and nursing homes, officials worked with the Gallatin Center to evacuate 23 residents Friday.

Saturday, National Guardsmen began testing all residents and staff at the rehabilitation center. Residents who were showing symptoms of the virus were isolated.

The COVID-19 Unified Command created by Lee along with the Tennessee Department of Health says by Sunday, 59 additional residents and 33 staff members tested positive for COVID-19. The affected residents have been hospitalized and staff members are currently isolated at home.

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[dhol82]

1. Coming home to the heartland, eh?

[rustysgurl]

2. Good God ...

Would be interested to know how the owners of the nursing home handled staff procedures, visitors, etc. prior to the Governor's order.

[GulfCoast66]

3. Meanwhile, in the state just North of them a Democratic Governor shut things down 23 days ago.

Even our crappy DeShitis ordered care facilities off limits over 2 weeks ago.

[lunasun]

4. 33 were staff which means they were out in the community possibly shopping getting gas or transport

Terrible for the area, 2 deaths and of course all the residents still hospitalized

[Docreed2003]

5. And our community hospital is now a full fledged Covid hospital

Unlike our Governor, our hospital has been planning for this type scenario for a month.

[Maru Kitteh]

6. This is EXACTLY what I am terrified of happening to my vets and our staff.

And me. . . . I'm scared.


My gawd I never, ever understood how much I could hate a living thing so much in my entire life as I hate that decrepit, tawdry, utterly void sack of biological material.

[marble falls]

7. Trump territory. This is where we'll find out how willingly folks'll trade granma for the "economy".

[Glimmer of Hope]

8. This will not be a good week.