Health & Fitness
24 Patients In One Woodbridge Nursing Home Have Coronavirus
The state shut down St. Joseph's Senior Home in Woodbridge Wednesday after 24 of the 94 residents there tested positive.
WOODBRIDGE, NJ — A longtime Woodbridge nursing home has been entirely shut down after 24 of the residents there tested positive for the coronavirus.
The state declared St. Joseph’s Senior Nursing Home in Woodbridge a public health emergency this week after 24 of the 94 patients there (including caregivers) tested positive for COVID-19.
The other remaining 70 are presumptive positive.
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St. Joseph’s had also become severely short-staffed as the staff was getting sick.
On Wednesday, St. Joseph's was closed and all the patients were transferred to a CareOne facility in Whippany. They were moved by Morris County OEM officials, who showed up to the Woodbridge facility dressed in full haz-mat suits.
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That Whippany CareOne senior home has been cleared out, with the residents who lived there moved to another facility so they will not interact with the new incoming St. Joseph's residents, said Lizzy Straus, a vice president at CareOne.
The medical status of the 24 seniors from St. Joe's is not immediately known.
It is expected St. Joseph's will reopen once the pandemic is over.
NEW! 2 mobile hospitals taking some of 94 St. Joes elderly residents believed infected with #coronavirus to a @CareOneMgt home 30 miles away that has been cleared to become a covid19 ward @NBCNewYork @NBCNews pic.twitter.com/9wg9ye9sKS
— Brian Thompson (@brian4NY) March 25, 2020
UPDATE!! All Residents of Virus-Stricken NJ Nursing Home Now Assumed to Be Infected https://t.co/6inl6kHt6n
— Brian Thompson (@brian4NY) March 25, 2020
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