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Nursing home works to contain coronavirus spread

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Nursing home works to contain coronavirus spread
Nursing home works to contain coronavirus spread

The Yalobusha County Nursing Home is working to contain and stop the spread of COVID-19 after confirming cases in the facility.

In yalobusha county --- a nursing home facility is reporting multiple cases of coronavirus in its residents.... as wtva's kayla thompson reports --- the facility is working to contain the virus and stop the spread... std."

"as of may 14th at 3 p.m.

The facility has confirmed 24 covid 19 residents at two positive staff members."

This is the message heard when calling the yalobusha residents at two positive staff members."

This is the message heard when calling the yalobusha county nursing home hotline... "the residents identified with covid 19 have been isolated to one unit with designated staff assigned to work that unit."

The two positive employees worked closely with positive residents... to keep others safe...adminstrat ors have already stopped visitation at the facility and put procedures in place for employees... before entering the building, employees must wear a cmask and get their temperature checked... one employee we spoke with said she's not fearful to go to work despite the high number of cases... cause we're well taken care of.

We're high quality.

Safe safe safe."

The yalobusha county nursing home is confident they can treat the covid patients inside of the facilty and slow (or stop) the spread to others... " we have ample amounts of ppe available and we are working closely with the state department of health to perform mass testing at our nursing home in the near future."

Stand up tag administrators said they will continue to update the nursing home hotline daily... in water valley, kt wtva 9 news... the

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