COVID-19 related deaths hit 40 in the county
Steve Hughes
GUILDERLAND — Our Lady of Mercy Life Center and Albany County’s own Shaker Place have the highest number of residents with coronavirus infections in the county, according to data released Wednesday morning.
Roughly, 20 percent of the 1,026 cases in the county are at nursing homes.
The county says 44 residents and 13 employees at the St. Peter’s Health Partners-run Lady of Mercy in Guilderland have tested positive.
At Shaker Place, 46 residents and 23 employees have tested positive. At least two people at the county-owned nursing home have died.
This is how the COVID-19 cases break down at nursing homes in the county:
Nursing home | Residents | Employees |
---|---|---|
Shaker Place | 46 | 23 |
Our Lady of Mercy Life Center | 44 | 13 |
Teresian House | 27 | 12 |
The Grand | 22 | 4 |
Hudson Park | 15 | |
Daughters of Sarah | 1 | |
Eddy Village Green Cohoes | 1 | |
Eddy Village Green at Beverwyck | 1 |
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The county’s list does not include deaths tied to each facility.
County Executive Dan McCoy’s office released the numbers for the private nursing homes shortly before he spoke with reporters Wednesday morning.
The county released the numbers as the death toll from COVID-19 hit 40 Wednesday. More than 1,000 people in the county have tested positive.
He said four more people died from the virus: two men in their 70s, another man in his 90s and a woman in her 70s.
Counties continue to vary in how they report out cases and deaths at long-term care facilities, which fuel nearly a quarter of all coronavirus deaths statewide.
Schenectady County has refused to release data on private nursing home cases. But Rensselaer County has shared information about outbreaks at such facilities in that county.