Health & Fitness
Oconee Has Second Long-Term Care Facility On State COVID List
An outbreak of COVID-19 is reported at a Winder nursing home.
The Georgia Department of Public Health added a second Oconee County facility to its Long-Term Care Facility COVID-19 Report late on Wednesday after a staff member tested positive for the disease.
That same report listed a Barrow County nursing home with 74 out of 115 residents and 23 staff members as COVID-19 Positive. On Tuesday, that same facility, Winder Health Care and Rehabilitation Center, had listed 15 COVID-19 Positive residents and 23 COVID Positive Staff.
The Winder facility listed six COVID-19 deaths on Wednesday, up from the one reported on Tuesday.
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St. Mary’s Highland Hill Village, 1660 Jennings Mill Road, on the Oconee and Clarke County border, joins another Oconee County facility on the Long-Term Care Facility COVID-19 Report. St. Mary’s reports 134 residents, none of whom are designated as COVID-19 Positive.
High Shoals Health and Rehabilitation, 3450 New High Shoals Road in North High Shoals, reported the same number of COVID-19 Positive Residents (12) and staff (2) on Wednesday as it did on Tuesday.
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It also reported the single death, which has not been reflected for Oconee County in the Department of Public Health Daily Status Report.
The Daily Status Report for noon on Thursday listed only eight new cases of confirmed COVID-19 for the 10-county Northeast Health District, down from the 51 listed on Wednesday. Neither Clarke County nor Oconee County added cases, and the seven-day rolling average for the region fell from 27.1 to 23.6.
The noon Thursday Department of Public Health Daily Status Report listed the same number of deaths in the Northeast Health District, 35, as the day before, despite the listing of five additional deaths in the Long-Term Care Facility COVID-19 Report.
Barrow County only has five deaths listed in the Daily Status Report for Thursday, despite the list of six COVID-19 deaths at the Winder nursing home.
Oconee County Sheriff Scott Berry on Thursday listed three new Active COVID-19 cases for the county, based on data provided by the Georgia Emergency Management Agency.
Berry reported three new cases on Wednesday as well, and the total number of active cases is 24, as cases are removed after 21 days on the list.
For more on the story, with charts summarizing the Northeast Health District and state data, please go to Oconee County Observations.