A Woodland nursing home where 17 people died of COVID-19 complications will close its doors and suspend its license, the CEO announced Wednesday.
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Yolo County officials declared an outbreak at Stollwood Convalescent Hospital in April, when 35 people, including residents and staff, tested positive. Sean Beloud, CEO of St. John’s Village, said in a letter that maintaining Stollwood “would be extremely burdensome and would put St. John’s broader campus at risk.”
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Beloud cited in the letter that declining admissions, labor shortages, and increased regulations have created a significant financial burden for the independent retirement community.
“Although this is an extremely difficult decision for all of us at St. John’s, we are confident that it is the right decision,” Beloud said in the letter.
Stollwood was among the hundreds of nursing facilities included in the state’s outbreak list. It was removed from the list in June.
Beloud said the expected closing date for Stollwood is September 30, which the California Department of Public Health approved on Friday. The installation license will also be suspended.
How the facility’s building will be used in the future also remains in the air, Beloud said.
Yolo County Public Health data shows 66 confirmed cases of coronavirus in Stollwood, consisting of 32 residents and 34 employees. The last time deaths were reported at the nursing facility was in June, when three more people died, totaling 17.
Beloud said the outbreak started in March. He was first reported by a Yolo County spokesman in April.
Stollwood is one of several facilities on the St. John campus. The convalescent hospital is a 48-bed skilled nursing facility. Here is a timeline of what happened:
- The first death in Stollwood was reported on April 13. That person was one of 35 infected with the virus.
- Three days later, on April 16, the state’s disaster medical assistance team was on campus, helping with the outbreak. The number of cases increased to more than 50, at that point.
- At the end of April, nine people had died.
- The death toll continued to rise over the next two weeks. County data reported that 14 people had died and 66 cases were confirmed. More than 200 people were evaluated.
- In June, no new cases had been reported in more than a month, allowing Stollwood to be removed from the state’s outbreak list, but the virus has taken its toll, infecting 66 people and killing 17.
Beloud wrote words of thanks in his letter, saying: “For the entire four months, the support of the Woodland community was a bright spot on some extremely dark days.”
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