Report Names Long-Term Facilities With COVID-19 Cases. Here’s The Escambia And Santa Rosa List.

April 19, 2020

Gov. Ron DesSantis has ordered the release of the names of long-term care facilities with reported cases of COVID-19. The move came after weeks of requests from media, including NorthEscambia.com, and people across the state.

As of midday Sunday, there were 64 COVID-19 cases reported in long-term care center residents or staff in Escambia County with six of those cases resulting in deaths. There were 10 cases in Santa Rosa County with no fatalities.

The list published by the administration included 11 facilities in Escambia County:

  • Arcadia Health & Rehabilitation Center
  • Asbury Place
  • Brookdale Pensacola
  • De Luna Health And Rehabilitation Center
  • Homestead Village Retirement Community
  • Olive Branch Health And Rehabilitation Center
  • Rehabilitation Center At Park Place
  • Rosewood Healthcare And Rehabilitation Center
  • Southern Oaks Care Center
  • Specialty Health And Rehabilitation Center
  • Westpointe Retirement Community Inc

The list did not indicate how many cases there are per individual facility.

The Arbors Of Gulf Breeze was the only listed facility with coronavirus cases in Santa Rosa County.

The complete list includes almost 300 of Florida’s almost 700 facilities.  As of Sunday, there were 1,785 infected residents and staff members at long-term care facilities across Florida with 175 deaths. DeSantis backed off previous claims that releasing the data might provide identifying patient information, but said Saturday, “I don’t think it does.”

“If you have one incident in a week from now and they don’t follow through with that, I don’t want to be in a situation where families don’t know,” DeSantis said.

The governor said he is upping the number of rapid response teams visiting Florida’s nursing homes and assisted living facilities to spot check residents and staff that might be infected but have no symptoms.

“You may have everyone doing everything right, but you could have a staff member who is asymptomatic and spread to the rest very very quickly,” DeSantis said.

Comments

6 Responses to “Report Names Long-Term Facilities With COVID-19 Cases. Here’s The Escambia And Santa Rosa List.”

  1. Kim Rowell on April 27th, 2020 2:00 pm

    I agree with bewildered my mother will be 101 years old in 3 months there would be no way she could fight this virus. Her assisted living facility is not on the list, but my mother-inlaw said that there are positive results in her facility. I think the family’s deserve the right to know if that’s the case so other arrangements can be made if possible.

  2. Brenda Plenkers on April 19th, 2020 7:17 pm

    The facility my mother is in notified us quickly. We received a call and a letter. We all miss mother so much, but are grateful for the good care shes getting. Praying this ends very soon, with asfew casualties as possible.

  3. Shocked on April 19th, 2020 10:01 am

    I have a personal relationship with a client at one of these facilities and we were not notified. As a matter of fact I was told yesterday there wasnt anybody in the facility with covid19.

  4. Good grief on April 19th, 2020 7:51 am

    that’s awful. Rosewood should be closed permanently. That place is terrible. Some of the staff are lazy, incompetent and they do not want to be bothered. The cleaning ladies were the only ones that seemed to care while my loved one was there.

  5. Estrella Nueva on April 19th, 2020 6:01 am

    Good job.

  6. bewildered on April 19th, 2020 2:09 am

    As long as family members of the residents are kept abreast and given the opportunity to remove their loved ones, I think these facilities did their job. Next the law suits will start coming as is already the case with the cruise ship industry. True, these facilities don’t cram thousand of people in a relative small space – but sadly all their residents are already weak, sick and no match for any disease .

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