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Other contested elections included the School Committee, Town Meeting Members and Town Assessor. (Dan Libon/Patch)
NEEDHAM, MA The Annual Town Election was held Tuesday, April 13. Get caught up here with who will be serving in office and their policy initiatives.
Contested Elections
Select Board: Moe Handel, four-term Select Board member and three-time chair, lost his reelection Tuesday when he came in third, with 2,581 votes.
Lakshmi Balachandra, a professor at Babson College, came in first with 3,818 votes. Marcus Nelson, a youth and community organizer, placed second with 3,668 votes. Nelson and Balachandra are the first people of color to ever serve on Needham s Select Board.
Photo provided by caring.com Waterford Place Health Campus.
Waterford Place Health Campus has reported 45 positive COVID-19 cases among its residents and 33 staff infections in December, marking the largest outbreak in months inside a local nursing home.
Since November, the assisted living facility on St. Joseph Drive has reported 20 cumulative COVID-related deaths among both residents and employees. Five of those resident deaths occurred last week, according to state data.
In total, the facility reported 121 presumed positive cases of COVID among both its residents and employees. So far, 80 have recovered from the virus, as of Thursday.
On Thursday, Waterford Place had 13 active COVID-positive residents, which equals over 14% of the entire resident population, according to numbers provided by the company. Seven active employees also had the virus out of a 115 workers.
Dec 11, 2020
Community Howard Regional Health in Kokomo is working with local nursing homes that are accepting COVID positive patients with mild or moderate symptoms, and those beginning recovery from the virus. Photo provided
Local long-term nursing facilities are taking in more COVID-19 patients from the cityâs two hospitals, as the intensive-care units reached maximum capacity on Tuesday due to a huge surge in new cases of the virus.
Tammie Floyd, director of case management at Community Howard Regional Health, said the hospital has worked with multiple local nursing home facilities to place COVID-positive patients or those recovering from the virus.
Dec 11, 2020
Community Howard Regional Health in Kokomo is working with local nursing homes that are accepting COVID positive patients with mild or moderate symptoms, and those beginning recovery from the virus. Photo provided
Local long-term nursing facilities are taking in more COVID-19 patients from the cityâs two hospitals, as the intensive-care units reached maximum capacity on Tuesday due to a huge surge in new cases of the virus.
Tammie Floyd, director of case management at Community Howard Regional Health, said the hospital has worked with multiple local nursing home facilities to place COVID-positive patients or those recovering from the virus.