By Walter F. Roche Jr.
The number of Pennsylvania nursing home residents who died of Covid-19 has reached at least 8,477, and the actual number could be much higher.
Maggi Barton, spokeswoman for the Pennsylvania Health Department, said Monday that total comes from data self reported by the nursing homes.
Barton said that some nursing homes had not reported Covid death data by Aug. 3, the date of the last compilation.
"There were a number of nursing homes who did not report," Barton said, adding that the exact reports by several other homes were automatically redacted if the total was less than five.
In addition to the nursing home Covid deaths another 1,870 deaths were recorded in personal care facilities licensed by the state Department of Human Services.
She said the same caveats applied to the personal care facilities. The data was self reported and reports with less than five deaths were automatically redacted.
"We continue to work with these facilities to report in order to present the most accurate data to understand COVID-19 impact on these communities," Barton said.
The data posted on the state Health Department web site shows 13 nursing homes have reported 60 or more deaths while two have reported more than 100.
The Neshaminy Manor in Warrington and the Northampton County Home Gracedale reported 104 each.
The Fair Acres facility in Lima reported 97 Covid-19 deaths and Conestoga View in Lancaster reported 81. Cedarbrook in Allentown and Brighton Rehabilitation reported 83 deaths each. Conestoga View was recently sold and renamed the Lancaster Nursing and Rehabilitation Center.
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