Two nursing homes in LaSalle County currently have COVID-19 cases, according to the Illinois Department of Public Health’s weekly update on Friday.
Ten cases at Heritage Health Mendota and seven at Ottawa Pavilion are reported on IDPH’s web site. The numbers may include people who have recovered. The IDPH figures also don’t distinguish whether staff or residents tested positive. Each home is considered “active” in the state’s coronavirus reporting because it has not been at least 28 days since the last case. No one at either home had died from the virus.
The state says the outbreak at Aperion Care Marseilles is over. There were 42 cases there with ten people having died after getting sick from the coronavirus. The IDPH considers the outbreak over or “closed” because it’s been at least 28 days since the last case.
The seriousness of an outbreak at any nursing home is not necessarily a reflection of the care given there.
This story has been updated to clarify that IDPH isn’t distinguishing staff from residents in its reporting on nursing home cases and to show that it takes 28 days of having no cases for a home to be removed from active status.