MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – During a Monday afternoon update from the Sundale Nursing Home in Morgantown, Doctor Carl Shrader says they are encouraged eight days after the first positive COVID-19 test result was received.
“We still have 17 of the positive residents here in-house,”Shrader said,”Three are still at Ruby Memorial and on is at Mon Health in ICU.”
Additionally, eight staff members are quarantining at home.
Shrader says they are taking temperatures every four hours on all residents, continuing to treat the COVID-19 patients in an isolated wing and every eight hours they are washing of the residents with alcohol.
He says extensive cleaning and sanitizing work is ongoing.
“Panhandle Cleaning and Restoration is coming today to decontaminate again, the hall areas of all the units,”Shrader said,”Environmental Services is focusing on patient rooms where they continue to clean bed rails, telephones, remotes and switches-all the things we touch with our hands.”
The COVID-19 patients are being treated by six workers, Shrader says they have secured housing for the workers and they receive a pay differential.
“I feel the next few days are very critical to know what we have,”Shrader said,”We feel like we’re in a holding pattern right now, people are stable to improved and that’s reassuring to us.”