KANSAS CITY, Mo. — At least three long-term care facilities in Wyandotte County are being monitored by health officials as COVID-19 clusters.
In addition to the Riverbend acute care rehabilitation facility, where 28 people have died and 128 residents and staff have tested positive for COVID-19, the Unified Government of Wyandotte County and Kansas City, Kansas’s Health Department is monitoring two other facilities.
In a tweet Friday afternoon, the department announced that 16 residents and two employees have tested positive at the Delaware Highlands assisted living facility, and two residents and two staff tested positive at the Life Care Center of Kansas City.
Two more long term care facilities with clusters of COVID-19 cases in WyCo. Investigation is under way, and we're working with the facilities on appropriate infection control steps to protect residents and staff. pic.twitter.com/PlqQvHeXoq
— Unified Government Public Health Department (@UGHealthDept) April 24, 2020
The department said no deaths or hospitalizations had been reported from the two facilities.
On Friday, Kansas Department of Health and Environment Secretary Dr. Lee Norman said the state is monitoring 19 long-term care facilities across the state as COVID-19 clusters.
