Officials with John Knox Village in Lee’s Summit, Missouri, said multiple employees who work at the campus Village Care Center have tested positive for COVID-19.A release from John Knox says five new employees at the facility’s care center have tested positive for coronavirus, bringing the facility’s total number of positive cases to nine. Facility officials said all employees have been asymptomatic while they were on campus and passed daily pre-shift screenings. Officials said none of the 200 residents at the Village Care Center have tested positive for the virus. “Between March 16 and June 10, four associates have tested positive for COVID-19 – one in March, one in May and two in early June,” the facility said. Because of the most recent cases, the care center decided Thursday, June 11 to be proactive in testing everyone in the building. Those tests resulted in the five additional cases. None of the employees have worked at the center since their positive tests. “Because of the sporadic scattering of the associates who have tested positive, we do not believe it is being spread within the building; rather it appears to show that our infection control procedures are doing their job,” said Anthony Columbatto, Village Care Center administrator. “However, these outcomes have led us to also begin administering tests to our residents.”“Given the size of the Village Care Center, we have always anticipated, and planned, for the fact that an infection could happen here at any time,” Columbatto said. “We are confident in our procedures, and we are prepared if a resident tests positively.”John Knox officials said one of the care center employees who tested positive also works inside the John Knox Village Assisted Living Center. That employee tested negative with a routine test two weeks ago, but tested positive in the most recent round of testing. As a result, the assisted living facility residents will also be tested. “We have been testing residents throughout the last 100 or so days whenever we felt that they could be exhibiting symptoms. So far, we have tested 40 individuals and all the tests came back negative,” said Rodney McBride, vice president of health and community services. “Yesterday, we started collecting samples from all the Village Care Center residents and will most likely have the results toward the end of the week. We also are starting to collect samples from the Village Assisted Living residents who came in contact with the non-JKV health care worker who tested positive.”
LEE’S SUMMIT, Mo. —
Officials with John Knox Village in Lee’s Summit, Missouri, said multiple employees who work at the campus Village Care Center have tested positive for COVID-19.
A release from John Knox says five new employees at the facility’s care center have tested positive for coronavirus, bringing the facility’s total number of positive cases to nine.
Facility officials said all employees have been asymptomatic while they were on campus and passed daily pre-shift screenings.
Officials said none of the 200 residents at the Village Care Center have tested positive for the virus.
“Between March 16 and June 10, four associates have tested positive for COVID-19 – one in March, one in May and two in early June,” the facility said. Because of the most recent cases, the care center decided Thursday, June 11 to be proactive in testing everyone in the building. Those tests resulted in the five additional cases.
None of the employees have worked at the center since their positive tests.
“Because of the sporadic scattering of the associates who have tested positive, we do not believe it is being spread within the building; rather it appears to show that our infection control procedures are doing their job,” said Anthony Columbatto, Village Care Center administrator. “However, these outcomes have led us to also begin administering tests to our residents.”
“Given the size of the Village Care Center, we have always anticipated, and planned, for the fact that an infection could happen here at any time,” Columbatto said. “We are confident in our procedures, and we are prepared if a resident tests positively.”
John Knox officials said one of the care center employees who tested positive also works inside the John Knox Village Assisted Living Center. That employee tested negative with a routine test two weeks ago, but tested positive in the most recent round of testing.
As a result, the assisted living facility residents will also be tested.
“We have been testing residents throughout the last 100 or so days whenever we felt that they could be exhibiting symptoms. So far, we have tested 40 individuals and all the tests came back negative,” said Rodney McBride, vice president of health and community services. “Yesterday, we started collecting samples from all the Village Care Center residents and will most likely have the results toward the end of the week. We also are starting to collect samples from the Village Assisted Living residents who came in contact with the non-JKV health care worker who tested positive.”
