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Another nursing home has reported a coronavirus outbreak with 11 of the 47 residents of the Moate Nursing Home in Co Westmeath and four staff members testing positive.
Nursing home group Mowlam Healthcare said one of the Covid-19 positive residents at the care facility was sent to the hospital for observation.
“We continue to have a full management team and staff cohort in place and they are professionally dealing with containing this outbreak,” Mowlam said in response to inquiries.
Mowlam said staff at the Moate Nursing Home were working closely with public health officials from HSE and the health service regulator, the Health Information and Quality Authority, to control the outbreak.
“We are satisfied that clinical and staff resources are available to deal with the situation effectively,” said the operator of the nursing home.
The group thanked residents and families for their support and cooperation, and thanked the Moate Nursing Home staff “for their commitment and compassion in properly implementing our Covid-19 response plans and managing this challenge effectively. “.
The nursing home has a maximum occupancy of 50 residents.
Limerick-based Mowlam Healthcare, which has been in business for 20 years, is one of the largest nursing home operators in the state with 27 homes in Leinster, Munster and Connacht.
Westmeath has the third highest incidence rate of the disease after Cavan and Meath, registering 302.5 cases per 100,000 people during the last 14 days, compared to 97 in the previous fortnight. It has had 371 cases of Covid-19 in the last two weeks, compared to 86 during the previous fortnight.
The state’s medical director, Dr. Tony Holohan, warned that widespread community transmission of the virus would make it impossible to keep it out of nursing homes.
Concerns have been expressed about the impact of a second wave of the virus on long-term residential care facilities for the elderly, given that more than half of the nearly 1,900 deaths from the coronavirus disease have occurred among residents of nursing homes. vulnerable to the virus. .
The National Public Health Emergency Team reported six more Covid-19 outbreaks in nursing homes and community hospitals in the week ending October 17.
The team said Thursday that there are now 33 open outbreaks with 451 linked cases. The HSE is supporting 132 nursing homes, including 35 that were receiving extensive support.
On Thursday, the HSE said it has stabilized staffing at a Co Galway nursing home, where 26 of the 28 residents and all but four of the staff tested positive for Covid-19.
Despite claims by the director of nursing at the Nightingale nursing home that it had been abandoned during the virus outbreak, HSE officials insisted that rosters at the facility are covered for the next three days and that support is provided. specialized.
A resident of the nursing home in Ahascragh died and two have been hospitalized from the massive Covid-19 outbreak in a long-term care facility.
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