Three nursing homes in Mendo Co. report COVID cases, workers infected (update 5:45pm)

WILLITS, 7/29/20 — Three additional nursing homes in Mendocino County have reported a positive COVID test, raising concerns about outbreaks at these facilities. In the past couple weeks four residents of the Sherwood Oaks nursing home in Fort Bragg have died from the illness, and across the world nursing homes have been some of the hardest hit by this disease which acutely affects the elderly. The cases of COVID were confirmed by the facilities themselves and the County of Mendocino, and have occurred at Ukiah Post Acute Care Center, Mountain View Assisted Living and Memory Care, and Redwood Creek Care Center in Willits.

Both Ukiah Post Acute and Mountain View Assisted Living explained in brief phone interviews that they’d had one employee each test positive for the virus. Staff at Redwood Creek declined to comment saying that they had been directed by their corporate office not to comment. At the corporate office executive director Jeff Payne said that he could comment on policy, but not on the details of the person who had tested positive, or whether they are resident or worker.