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A skilled nursing facility in Modoc County has the majority of its residents infected with the coronavirus and some COVID-positive staff treating them.
Warnerview Skilled Nursing in Alturas has had 28 of its 36 residents test positive for COVID-19, with 25 of those cases active as of Thursday. Kevin Kramer, CEO of Modoc Medical Center, which oversees the facility, announced the news in a video update posted to YouTube.
Kramer said the majority of residents at Warnerview are exhibiting very low level symptoms or are asymptomatic. For the eight negative residents, Kramer said they are being tested every three days.
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California’s most recent stay-at-home order zeroes in on a region’s ability to care for their sickest COVID-19 patients. But for rural hospitals that don’t have an intensive care unit, administrators say the worsening surge is presenting new challenges.
“The critical access hospital program was designed such that these hospitals would primarily be available to accept and stabilize patients and then transfer those patients to a higher level of care,” said Peggy Broussard Wheeler, vice president of rural health for the California Hospital Association. “Now that is whittling away because the larger facilities are all tremendously impacted by COVID and other patients.”
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California’s most recent stay-at-home order zeroes in on a region’s ability to care for their sickest COVID-19 patients.
But for rural hospitals that don’t have an intensive care unit, administrators say the worsening surge is presenting new challenges.
“The critical access hospital program was designed such that these hospitals would primarily be available to accept and stabilize patients and then transfer those patients to a higher level of care,” said Peggy Broussard Wheeler, vice president of rural health for the California Hospital Association. “Now that is whittling away because the larger facilities are all tremendously impacted by COVID and other patients.”
Coronavirus outbreak worsens at Modoc County Skilled Nursing Facility
Modoc Medical Center is at full capacity and the Covid-19 outbreak at the Warnerville Skilled Nursing Facility in Alturas has worsened.
Posted: Dec 15, 2020 5:14 PM
Updated: Dec 19, 2020 9:06 AM
Posted By: Linda Watkins-Bennett
Update 5:55 p.m. Friday, Dec. 18, 2020 - A coronavirus outbreak is growing worse at a Modoc County nursing home.
Four more residents of the Warnerville Skilled Nursing Facility in Alturas tested positive this week.
The home is operated by the Modoc Medical Center Health Care District.
CEO Kevin Kramer said, Of those 28 who tested positive three have recovered. The majority of the rest have low-level symptoms or asymptomatic.