National Guard deployed to Milton retirement home to help with COVID-19 outbreak
Updated May 01, 2021;
MILTON A Pennsylvania National Guard team deployed to Rockwell Retirement and Community Arts Center in Milton on Friday to provide assistance as the facility manages a COVID-19 outbreak.
LTC Keith Hickox, the state public affairs officer, confirmed that the decision was made to deploy 12 guardsmen to the facility at 32 S. Turbot Ave., Milton. The most recent data from the state Department of Health shows that the facility has less than five positive cases for both residents and staff and no deaths.
The countywide database that is updated daily by DOH officials with facility-specific numbers, has shown some recent increases in Northumberland County.
But the couple will not be celebrating a belated Thanksgiving.
A fall in their Ephrata home last year sent Eshelmanâs wife to the Denver Borough facility to recover from ankle surgery. Diagnosed with COVID-19 five weeks after her transfer, Sue Eshelman died on Dec. 2.
She was 69.
âI promised her Iâd have Thanksgiving with her when she got out,â said Eshelman, 55. Sue had diabetes and kidney cancer, but she was sent to the nursing home to recover from her ankle surgery and was expected to recover and come home, Don said, asking, âHow do you go from falling down and breaking your ankle to passing away?â
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Photographed through a window, nurse Taylor Akins checks the vitals of resident Mary McPeak at Quality Life Services-Sarver in Winfield Township, Butler County on Thursday, Dec. 10, 2020.
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Paul McGuire, chief operating officer of Quality Life Services (left), and Mary Susan Tack-Yurek, owner and chief quality officer stand for a portrait outside the QLS offices early this month.
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Mary Susan Tack-Yurek, owner and chief quality officer of Quality Life Services, stands for a portrait outside the QLS offices early this month.