A COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak has been confirmed at the Carlton Senior Living facility at 175 Cleaveland Rd. in downtown Pleasant Hill, according to the Contra Costa County health department.
Four residents have tested positive, three of which are now hospitalized.
Nine staff members also have tested positive.
The health department says they are testing symptomatic people at the site and are evaluating the feasibility of testing everyone who lives and works there.
photo: Carlton Senior Living – google maps
I was jogging by there yesterday and said a little prayer for all the senior folks living there, and now this. I wonder how much of this is because of employees rotating between facilities?
Let’s face it, this virus is going to make its way into every assisted care and skilled nursing facility eventually. I’m not trying to be heartless…my mom lives in one. But the writing is on the wall.
Since domestic dogs and cats have been found to have it, as have wild game cats in the zoo, it leads me to believe that this shelter-in-place strategy needs to end at then end of the month, people need to get back to work so they can produce ALL of the things a modern society requires. Meanwhile, researchers can continue to improve treatments and get testing kits and vaccines approved ASAP.
I just heard someone say we might have to live like this for 18 months. That is unacceptable…even though I am considered to be in the ‘vulnerable’ population myself.
I agree, People have to get back to work! If we don’t what we will see will be far worse than the virus! I am also in the vulnerable group!
@Mr. Troll
And if someone were to follow your advice, our hospitals and healthcare resources would be totally over-run and people would be having to make some very horrible decisions choosing who gets to live, and who gets to die.
I guess you still haven’t been able to figure out why we have the “Stay at Home” policy.
Sad.
Amazing!
I agree trollman.
Wagner, your media outlets are telling you that everything you’ve described IS happening. Better do some ‘fact checking” in your spare time. If there’s anyone on this site that needs to get back to work, it’s you.
I have read where it is not true dogs have it..yes a tiger has it in New York zoo..but the USA said no dogs carry it..people were placing there dogs in shelters for fear they could give it to humans but they cannot..many prayers for those people in that building..and the ones in hospital..I live in the building next to them..this will be going on for sometime..
@1791 The whole point of staying at home and social distancing is to slow the spread of the virus so that our hospital systems *don’t* become overloaded as has happened in Italian hospitals. Areas of severe outbreaks in the US (with NYC the most notable at the moment) are absolutely at risk of facing the same overcapacity problems.
A primary reason that our numbers and our ‘curve’ doesn’t look like NY’s right now is because of the aggressive precautions taken by Bay Area health agencies.
Information on cats and dogs being infected can be found on National Geographic. Zoos are very worried about their Primates, BTW. Don’t believe everything you read on VOX.
Chuckie, have you been keeping up at all? The shelter-in-place is not to save lives or prevent the spread if it’s inevitable — it’s to flatten the curve and spread things out so our health care system won’t collapse. Imagine having a broken leg or a heart attack and the hospital cannot treat you because half the staff is out sick and there are no open beds for you?
Never will I ever put *anything* before my health. If we are told to “shelter in place” then that is what we should do. Anyone who wants to go out there and pick up this virus, then do that…but when you get sick, stay home and don’t put other people at risk of catching this virus from you. Don’t even go to the hospital.
It’s a shame they cant just test everyone immediately.
It sure is.
senior citizens need to be protected! pretty soon its gonna be all over rossmoor!
I agree. People (including tRump) who are insisting on getting back to work are selfish, heartless, and don’t care about the senior population and others who are at risk with pre-existing condition. How about all hospital workers who are exposed every day, could become ill and bring the virus home to their spouses and kids? Use common sense , people!
the whole world should not be shut down. Certain high risk areas need to take way bigger precautions. In my past eldercare experience it is the workers and visitors that bring in viruses, etc.
The elderly are at risk for depression and loneliness when no one visits
them and die early deaths. Masks, hand washing, checking for illnesses upon entering, and distancing would help in curbing many illnesses. Visiting outdoors when weather permits would also help.
People have been lax for far too long, this is just a wake up call
@commonsense I never advocated “getting back to work!” I’m retired! I took my 95 year-old mother to visit friend in nursing facilities, assisted living, and visited some people there myself. The conditions are terrible, and they have very little oversight and inspection by the State. It is a terrible thing to do to an elderly relative.
well it may be that there are simply not enough test available yet.
Isn’t that what the Inspector General for the Health and Human Service Department found in her report?
“Anybody that wants a test can get a test. That’s what the bottom line is”
DJT March 6, 2020 during his visit to the CDC
@Always – The county is able to test about 350 people per day. Yesterday they tested 233 people.
The Pleasant Hill facility senior living likely has 300 employees if you count all the shifts. Until the county can greatly expand the testing there will be no surveillance tests. It’s unfortunate as nearly all of the staff of a facility such as this one interacts with the residents daily. The med-techs are inside people’s apartments twice a day and the cleaning staff goes in weekly.
And, of course, during his visit to the CDC nobody gave him that information. Are you serious?
They are testing everyone at the carlton in Pleasant Hill
@ 1791
are you kidding? Do you know what “the buck stops here” means? It doesn’t mean blame an underling if you’re the leader. And even it was true he had more than a month now to correct his statement.
@ Sue
I hope they do now. But the statement was “all nursing home employees” in the entire state and I doubt that there is the capacity to do that at this time.
@1791
It is truly like a cult with you guys. It is always somebody else to blame. Have you never noticed that Trump never gives accurate numbers?
Just a few examples from today:
He claimed today that Ivanka has created 15 million jobs in the US. That would be roughly 10% all all jobs in the US and twice as many as were created during his administration prior to the losses due to COVID-19.
He tweeted that 17,000 people died during H1N1 which he called a debacle. His own CDC website says that H1N1 caused 12,496 deaths in the US. BTW COVID-19 as of right now is at 12,813 deaths and counting. I’m not sure why H1N1 was a debacle and COVID-19 a solid 10 out of 10, but I won’t expect you to answer this one.
“The health department says they are testing symptomatic people at the site and are evaluating the feasibility of testing everyone who lives and works there.”
Should be a no-brainer that everyone who lives and works here should be tested.
One lazy, sloppy healthcare worker and a whole village is doomed.
very sad
The home health aid nurse was asymptotic… not a lazy sloppy health worker jeeezzzz
It doesn’t sound like the staff practiced any sort of basic infection control, let alone the stringent guidelines for coronavirus. Symptomatic or not, it just sounds like they were sloppy. The conditions in those places are horrid and there is very little oversight by the State of California. Infections are common.
@ Gittyup – and ironically aren’t you one of the people saying we need to “get back to work?” Then accusing people of being “sloppy.” If you don’t have testing, you’re not going to know if someone has the virus or not. The countries that had testing did well, those, like us that don’t, suffer.
Gittyup, I’m sorry but you are wrong.
That senior living complex is one of the cleanest & most upscale in the city of Pleasant Hill, it is like a fine hotel.
It is not a nursing home or a convalescent hospital (some of those places are awful).
I’m glad I don’t have you as an Aunt.
Youre terribly ignorant.
Dear Neighbor,
Nine staff members also have tested positive at the skilled nursing facility located at 125 Cleaveland Road, Contra Costa Health Services confirmed Tuesday.
If nine staff members have tested positive, it’s a pretty good indication they have very little instruction on practicing cleanliness in group settings, and clearly are not following guidelines regarding this virus which have been widely publicized.
@ JWB. The CDC H1N1 page lists a range of deaths for H1N1 as they don’t know the true total.
“range: 8868-18,306) in the United States due to the (H1N1)pdm09 virus”
Does it pain you to know that Trump might be right?
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-flu-usa/swine-flu-has-killed-up-to-17000-in-u-s-report-idUSN1223579720100212
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/2009-h1n1-pandemic.html
@JL
Just curious why would you misquote your own link?
You cited:
“range: 8868-18,306) in the United States due to the (H1N1)pdm09 virus”
When the actual quote is:
” and 12,469 deaths (range: 8868-18,306) in the United States due to the (H1N1)pdm09 virus”
And do you understand the difference between “17,000” and “up to 17,000”?
I hope it doesn’t pain you too much.
Since Feb. 26th is known the fact that dogs and cats can carry this virus (COVID-19), but not health officials in the whole world pay attention.
Again at the same time were known the fact that om medical personals, involved with virus cases must care full-size glass masks and whole-body protective suit and not, in the end, a designated breathing mask (not what we see in-store or online for general purpose).
All this information was available online on the mentioned date February 26, 2020.
People in nursing homes are all given The Flu shot ( that actually weakens the immune system) and if you look at the actual Flu Inserts ( starting in 2018) and possible side effects, one is Coronavirus. I’m not saying C-19, but Coronaviruses are all very similar and different then flu viruses. It’s not surprising we are seeing nursing homes with sick people in them getting the C-19, and not being able to fight it off because of numerous health issues, and WEAKENED IMMUNE systems from injections that have known toxins in them.
@JWB – An idiot can’t feel pain. Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience. ~Mark Twain
Why bash, why not just send good thoughts to those that live and work there and thank those that work there at the same time for the jobs they do. The residents and employess on the whole are all angels
Agreed. I’ve been to these facilities and they are well run and maintained and the employees work hard to keep them that way. The residents have always been happy and sweet. They are senior living facilities not nursing homes.
Also- i’m seriously tired of all the negative vibes. Be more thankful to the people who are working while worried about getting sick dealing with ungrateful customers and members of the society that can’t accept that things have changed. How many times they are asked the same questions when the answer hasnt changed for weeks. Take the time instead to wish them well. Thank them for their care and patience. And smile and appreciated the moment to have a normal or intersting conversation with them. Have a friendly laugh if you can find it in you. And go home thankful that you have a lot less to deal with they they do.
Lets have more thank you posters to those under appreciated workers you encounter and less harassing employees for recent changes imposed by the government and anything else thats not in their hands.
Thanks
Medical and care givers, grocery store workers, truck drivers, gov workers, mail men and delivery drivers, factory workers (especially paper product, cleaning, and food).
I have a question that I have not seen addressed anywhere. I keep reading articles that family members dont receive frequent updates of their loved ones at the elderly care facilities that have Covid outbreaks and cant seem to communicate with them. As a family member dont you have the right to remove your loved one from the facility to have them quarantine at home with you instead?