A Walnut Creek skilled nursing facility is dealing with a COVID-19 outbreak that as of Tuesday night has left 12 residents dead and a total of 92 residents and 38 staff testing positive.
25 residents of ManorCare Health Services-Tice Valley were still being treated for COVID-19-related symptoms as of Tuesday night, according to figures supplied by the California Department of Public Health, the regulatory and oversight body for skilled nursing facilities.
Julie Beckert, a spokeswoman with Toledo, Ohio-based HCR ManorCare, said all residents and staff at the Tice Valley facility have now been tested.
This is the third significant coronavirus outbreak at a Contra Costa County skilled nursing facilities since the COVID-19 pandemic began in March. At least four residents of the Orinda Care Center in Orinda died, and 40 residents and 32 staff members there tested positive.
At the San Miguel Villa skilled nursing facility in Concord, 20 residents died from COVID-19-related causes, and a total of 65 residents and 17 staff members tested positive for the virus.
ManorCare Health Services-Tice Valley, on Tice Valley Boulevard, is outside the Rossmoor gated adult community where approximately 11,000 people live. That facility is separate and distinct from ManorCare Health Services-Rossmoor, on Rossmoor Boulevard a few blocks away from the Tice Valley facility.
No cases of COVID-19 have been reported at ManorCare Health Services-Rossmoor.
State Department of Public Health personnel make regular site visits to nursing facilities where residents or staff have tested positive, said Will Harper, a spokesman for Contra Costa Health Services.
The county health department or an affiliated health care provider sends “strike teams” to nursing facilities where a positive test is reported, to review infection control practices with facility staff, and consults with state health department personnel about local facilities, Harper said.
He would not discuss details of outbreaks at specific facilities, including ManorCare on Tice Valley Boulevard.
Beckert said HCR ManorCare facilities had, by March, already eliminated group activities and most outside visits except in end-of-life situations, and that by that point all employees were required to wear masks.
More precautions have been taken since then, Beckert said, including restricting new admissions, taking regular symptom and temperature checks of all residents, strengthening sanitizing and cleaning processes and staying connected with residents’ families and maintaining personal protective equipment supplies for staff.
“Our employees are working extremely hard, and in a challenging environment,” Beckert said. “They are true health care heroes and deserve to be recognized as such.”
photo credit: Sam Richards
why were those who were recovering returned to the facility?
how many who died had underlying health issues?
opps, gavin and the media are saying we can’t ask those questions just fall in line with the fear… let the economy fail, your 401ks tank all so trump doesn’t get re-elected. GD you dems.
Who said you can’t ask those questions? When did “the media” or Gavin Newsom say any such thing? Please give specific examples.
Do you seriously believe that this virus is some kind of giant conspiracy by the Democrats to “let the economy fail” so Trump doesn’t get elected? Do you realize how utterly ridiculous that sounds? Why would ANYONE want the economy to crash???
I’m wondering how many if any tested negative?
given your response i expect this is a waste of time @GP but here goes. if the economy goes south then trump is more likely to lose. the dems don’t care as they get money from the govt regardless. remember once you are a us congressperson you get your salary for the rest of your life. heck if we all become wards of the state, i.e. on some form of welfare, they win as we’d have to vote dem for the rest of our lives lest we’d lose our free money. maybe it does sound crazy but then so are the dems, the left and those who don’t see the writing on the wall.
Are you suggesting that there haven’t been more than 100,000 deaths and we have all been duped into thinking so? What gives you that impression?
Are you suggesting that the Democrats have some sort of secret lab where they created a virus and then let it loose without being certain what it would do?
Both of those seem much less likely than the possibility that this virus has been very deadly and (like the 1918 virus) requires social distancing to avoid spreading it.
@Goggles Pisano
You asked if “ash” realized how utterly ridiculous it sounds to let the economy fail. Well, Goggles, I thought it sounded utterly ridiculous when Bill Maher said that’s what needed to happen to get rid of Trump. Take off your “goggles” and open your eyes wide and you will see that the economy failing is EXACTLY what dems want.
Why would anyone want the economy to crash? The Liberals and Democrats. The economy was the best ever before the virus hit. A few congress people, even Feinstein’s husband, made big bucks selling stock just before the stock market crashed in March. Did they really put covid patients back in the nursing home? After NYC did that, and so many thousands died, they didn’t think that
would be tragic? The Democrats hate Trump so much they would rather destroy the country than have him reelected. They want socialism and a one world order, and when we all hover in our houses behind our masks we will be ripe to behave them.
@Chuq,
Your attempt at a straw man argument is so poorly received, I wonder if you’re joking.
There actually is a bioweapon lab in Wuhan, with very real ties to Fauci and the Democrats.
A virus doesn’t have to be intentionally released in order for politicians to exploit the situation.
That the politicians doing the most exploiting are Democrats, does point to a conspiracy. That their policy has focused on shutting down the economy and making voter fraud easier, via mail in ballots points to their agenda.
You compared Spanish Flu to Covid:
Spanish flu had 50 million deaths (with young men being the most likely to die.
Covid <1 million deaths, where the mostly likely to die are the old or sick.
Kind like apples and oranges, eh?
The virus is real, but as opportunists, I believe Democrats saw the chance to usurp certain freedoms and privileges of the public and move the nation in the direction of socialism as begun by Obama. They began with a three-foot social distance and no masks, meetings and gatherings as usual, most restaurants open. Then they began to tighten the screws. Social distance six feet, closely followed by SIP, and progressing to no gatherings, take out only, masks, and so on.
Now, and this is where Democrats truly shine, they have thoroughly introduced their radical, progressive ideas and are implementing them as quickly as they can before the public can react and the lawsuits can work their way through the courts. By the time any legal decisions are made they will have foisted on the public a progressive revision of life as we knew it, and it will be very difficult, if not impossible, to backtrack.
Take for example, the death penalty. Voters, the majority of the voting public in California, rejected a proposition on the ballot to abolish the death penalty. Newsom, shortly after taking office declared a moratorium on executions while in office. Now, we hear that prosecutors in various jurisdictions throughout the State will not be seeking the death penalty.
In short order, during this pandemic Democrats have overthrown the will of the people, made their cast votes meaningless, and instituted a system that removes the death penalty from the equation for cases involving murder. And, this is only one example of the egregious changes taking place daily while the public is shuttered and removed from participating in determining their future. It is no longer a participatory democracy when these edicts are issued from on high as they have been since Democrats realized this was their opportunity to foist their vision of socialistic theory on the California public.
Stupid is and stupid does. People who believe in conspiracies are the ones that are too stupid to look at history. Epstein didn’t kill himself… I’ll give the unintelligent ones that. Hope this pisses you guys off your foil hats.
Keep the fear going! Keep the fear going! Great job media and government on this hoax!
Oh look, elected public servants with BASIC common sense.
How refreshing !
“The Michigan House approved Wednesday a bill that would direct elderly people with COVID-19 away from nursing homes and into designated care facilities, a challenge to Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s nursing home order.” …
“Whitmer’s policy has been criticized out of fears that the policy spurred the spread of COVID-19 by allowing infected individuals back into nursing homes ill-equipped to isolate and care for them. ”
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2020/07/22/michigan-legislature-approves-bill-keeping-covid-19-patients-nursing-homes/5489196002/
Whitmer is a democrat
Geez.. you’d think by now they’d be all over the nursing homes. After NY’s Cuomo bungle of all those poor souls lost in that states nursing homes. Newsolini is a failure. Yet some think he is a saint. He knows exactly what he’s doing by allowing the continued spread among the elderly folks in nursing homes knowing full well that a lot will die. Not to mention the downward spiral of a once great state.
Where are the residents of nursing facilities supposed to be moved? Their families either can’t or won’t take them. It’s not like the state has empty spaces to move them to in skilled nursing facilities. Please, somebody tell us what should have been done.
Right? These people just want to complain. You cannot please everyone and the people who complain most are the ones who would leave their loved ones in a nursing home.
For starters, staff should be tested weekly. At least. That should be a priority for state and federal funding. It kind of blows my mind that it has not been done already. Sending a strike team after a case shows up is good but may be too late.
And just where are they supposed to put it? They obviously had to wait for the funeral home to come pick up the body. That is dependent on the family of the deceased, so blame them instead. You sound like someone who wants everything for basically nothing. You cannot please everyone. It’s a nursing home. People are going to die and it is a normal part of life.
It is also a rehab facility. We are to expect excellent care no matter how old or young you are. It is not a nursing home by the way. Manor Care is for people to recover from knee and hip replacement surgery, or other medical procedures.
Anon. No, they don’t have a place to put them. And, sorry if you guys cannot accept reality. Most rehab centers are ALSO nusing homes. How do I know? I’m a doctor. You folks have no idea about medical care, just are stating your opioins and desires as fact.
Oh, please,
PLEASE tell us where and what type of medicine you practice so we can all avoid you.
Cuomo was dumb. He killed a lot of old fol. hiscriticisms are political .
Please find a recall petition location and sign the recall of Newsom. He needs to go!!
https://recallgavin2020.com/location-locator/
There is really only one way these residents are getting this virus … the staff. Friends and family members have not been allowed to visit since mid-March. The staff are the only people coming in and out of these places. How do you stop it? I have no idea. Maybe require temp taking of all staff every day? Sadly, there is no easy answer.
Isn’t this the contracted facility for Kaiser patients? at one point Kaiser was refusing to test their own members and were referring them to the county Public Health facilities. So sad. 4 months in and now all the employees are tested? terrific.
My friend said when she was admitted there by ambulance she told them she had to go to the bathroom and they stuck a diaper underneath said just go on there! They are always understaffed! The big corporations that own these places rip off Medicare and their patients. It is a terrible place. My Mother had a very negative experience there.
The correct thing to do was to move the living roommate until the funeral home staff could come there.
That’s chicken sh*t for Contra Costa County Health Services AND “Will Harper” choosing to not discuss details of DEADLY outbreaks at specific facilities including ManorCare. IT’S YOUR JOB to keep Contra Costa County tax payers informed especially when these DEADLY medical care facilities are under your watch, Will. What a f’king disgrace! Where are you, Dr Chris Farnitano????
My family member was admitted to Manor Care & the staff & nurses here were so neglectful. They would not answer the nurse-call-light. We finally took over in shifts so our family member wouldn’t be left alone. We complained & they just told us the same administrative babble.
Never trust this place.
A few years back, a patient here fell out of the window & died. It’s one story after another at Manor Care
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Max .. BQQM! Nailed it!
Wanna see the nursing homes cleaned up?
Move Cuomo, Schumer, DeBlasio, Newsom & Pelosi’s families into them and watch what happens!
Look, we are all going to get old real soon unless a coronavirus that impacts younger people comes around and kills us before we get old.
I believe a country shows its moral compass by showing how they treat their seniors. The way we seem to shrug and say, well they’re old so who cares is really despicable.
Goggles Pisano: Who would want the economy to crash ? Bill Maher on his program a year ago said having a big recession would be a small price to pay to keep Trump from being reelected. He is one person.
I just wrote this yesterday. They are testing long term care employees every thirty days. They may as well not even test them. They are killing off old people. They should have been tested everyday before they got into the building. This is criminal.
The County and State are to blame for not getting an IMMEDIATE handle on positive cases at these facilities. No excuse whatsoever for Contra Costa County Health administrators and the Board of Supervisors not having a workable plan in place to prevent deadly outbreaks such as this. Clearly, they need to do more.
From what I’ve see, elderly individuals placed in these facilities live about two years. They can survive the neglect about that long.
This is not surprising. My mother was transfer to this facility after having hip surgery and the incompetent dolts running that place placed her in a room and completely forgot about her for two days. I wouldn’t trust Manor Care to care for my worst enemy’s dog.
This is not accurate “That facility is separate and distinct from ManorCare Health Services-Rossmoor, on Rossmoor Boulevard a few blocks away from the Tice Valley facility.” Staff members and vendors regularly go between the two facilities. A COVID-19 outbreak was detected at the Rossmoor Boulevard ManorCare facility on on June 12 and at the Tice Valley ManorCare facility on on June 15th. They were able to contain the outbreak at Rossmoor Boulevard with less than 11 residents and less that 11 staff infected.
I have been to the Tice Valley facility many times. It seems fine to me. The people I visited with never complained about dead roommates or that staff would not respond when the call button was used.
An earlier post includes “A few years back, a patient here fell out of the window & died.” I found this SFGate article about that from July 1999. I suspect it was at the Rossmoor Boulevard facility as Tice Valley is one story while Rossmoor Boulevard is two. The windows at Tice Valley are normal sliding windows that can be opened for fresh air.