Philly Nursing Home Has 108 Covid Cases

By Walter F. Roche Jr.

The city owned Philadelphia Nursing Home has 108 patients who have been diagnosed with Covid-19 and fewer than five of them have died, according to data made public by the Pennsylvania Health Department.
City health officials had previously refused to disclose data on Covid-19 case counts at the 402-bed facility, but state officials this week decided to disclose detailed statewide data on nursing home and personal care facilities.
At the Philadelphia Nursing Home a total of 108 patients were diagnosed with the Coronavirus, according to the state report.
The Philadelphia home was not the only publicly owned facility to show up on the list. The John J. Kane Regional Center in Center Glen Hazel had 104 patients diagnosed with Covids-19, along with 30 employees. Thirty-one of the patients died from the virus.
The Delaware Valley Veterans Center in Philadelphia, which is run by the state Department of Military and Veterans Affairs, reported nine patients were diagnosed with Covid-19.
The new state data actually conflicts with data recently issued by the state veterans agency. While the state agency has reported 49 Covid-19 deaths at the Southeastern Veterans Center, the state Health Department list includes only 35 deaths at the Chester County facility.
The state agency reported that 35 deaths were confirmed Covid-19 deaths while an additional 14 were presumed to have died from the virus.
The nursing home with the highest number of deaths in the state was the Brighton Rehabilitation and Wellness Center in Beaver County where 76 virus deaths were recorded. Forty virus deaths were reported at the Broomhall Rehabilitation and Nursing Center in Philadelphia's suburbs.
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