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Coronavirus Outbreak at Area Nursing Home

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Coronavirus Outbreak at Area Nursing Home
Coronavirus Outbreak at Area Nursing Home
Coronavirus Outbreak at Area Nursing Home

New information tonight.

In a waay 31 exclusive interview... family members share their concerns with us -- after 17 patients died after testing positive for coronavirus at an area nursing home.

Thank you for joining us tonight -- i'm najahe sherman.

Dan shaffer has the night off.

Waay 's max cohan joins live from ardmore, where the facility is located.

Max what did they tell you?

Families who have loved ones here at elk river center tell me they are terrifed about the safety of thier loved ones.

In the past three weeks more than 80 percent of the centers patients have tested positive for coronavirus -- leaving more than a dozen dead.

Nicole hicks -- has family at elk river center "it's just fear that she might catch something like that in her last days, it would just be horrible."

For many -- monday's news of a significant coronavirus outbreak at the elk river health and nursing center of ardmore came as a shock.

Nicole hicks' husbands aunt is currently at the center.

Hicks says the center had been in regualr contact with the family about her 96 year old aunt and her condition -- until about a week ago.

On monday the center confirmed that 52 residents and more than 20 staff members had tested positive for the virus in the past three weeks.

17 patients have died over that span and now the there are only 30 left at the center, down from about 60 just a few weeks ago.

Hicks says her aunt -- who is among the remaining group -- is not among the positive cases.

"it does make us feel good but also that fear is there that, you know, she could be one of the next ones.

Since it's a small place and i understand that they might be short staffed of course with half of the staff being sick as well.

I'm sure that's the case."

Hicks added that the center had been calling her husband letting him know about positive cases in the center but said today was the first time she was hearing about the magnitude of the outbreak -- calling it a bit of a shocker.

Live in ardmore, max cohan, waay 31 news.

Thanks max.

Center administrator j-d davis says the center has been strictly following c-d- c...c-m-s and the tennssee department of health guidelines since the start of the outbreak.

He says health officials have visited the center several times and not

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