Long-term care facilities account for nearly 55% of Idaho’s coronavirus deaths
Residents of Idaho’s long-term care facilities make up at least 54% of the state’s total deaths from COVID-19 but only about 4.5% of the total number of confirmed cases.
The Idaho Department of Health and Welfare released its weekly update Friday on COVID-19 cases in the state’s long-term care facilities, and the numbers continue to trend upward.
Outbreaks at Idaho facilities increased by 19 to 122 overall, total individual cases jumped by 232 to 1,321 cases, and deaths rose by 19 to 125, with 10 new facilities recording a death.
Active cases increased to 1,006 at 85 facilities — up from 774 at 67 facilities last week. There are 37 facilities with resolved outbreaks.
Idaho has reported 231 coronavirus-related deaths statewide since the start of the pandemic, and Health and Welfare data shows that at least 125 of those deaths have occurred at long-term care facilities. Idaho’s total number of confirmed cases statewide stands at 22,465. The case fatality rate is about 0.96%.
Below is a list of long-term care facilities by city that have active cases of the coronavirus:
American Falls: Power County Nursing Home; Ammon: Gables Assisted Living of Ammon; Blackfoot: Willows, Gem Village; Boise: Shaw Mountain, Terraces of Boise, LifeCare of Boise, Edgewood-Overland, Cascadia of Boise, Garden Plaza of Valley View-Valley View Nursing & Rehabilitation, Garden Plaza of Valley View-The Bridge at Valley View, Aspen Valley Senior Living, State Veterans Home, Overland Court, Willow Park, Arbor Village, Arbor Valley of Cascadia, Life Care of Treasure Valley, Ashley Manor-Hyde Park, Trinity Assisted Living, Grace Memory Care, Veranda Senior Living, Edgewood Castle Hills, Edgewood Spring Creek Memory Care, Ivy Place; Burley: Parke View Rehab;
Caldwell: Caldwell Care of Cascadia, Autumn Wind, Canyon West of Cascadia, Grace Assisted Living, Lenity Senior Living; Coeur d’Alene: Ivy Court, Orchard Ridge; Eagle: Paramount Parks, Foxtail, Tomorrow’s Hope-Eagle, Edgewood Spring Creek Eagle Island, Ashley Manor-Eagle House No. 2; Emmett: Apple Valley Residence, Cherry Ridge Center, River’s Edge Rehab, Cottages of Emmett; Garden City: Emerson House; Homedale: Owyhee Health & Rehab; Idaho Falls: Gables Assisted Living of Idaho Falls, MorningStar of Idaho Falls, Good Samaritan-Idaho Falls Village; Jerome: Communicare; Lewiston: The Orchards;
Meridian: Grace Assisted Living, Creekside Transitional Care, Touchmark, Copper Springs, Tomorrow’s Hope-Lavin, Tomorrow’s Hope-Deb, Aspen Transitional Rehab, Harmony Hills, Tomorrow’s Hope-Sapphire; Nampa: Karcher Estates, Orchards of Cascadia, Ashley Manor-Midland, Meadow View, Southwest Idaho Treatment Center, Aging Gracefully, Sunny Ridge, Wellspring of Cascadia, Tomorrow’s Hope-Nampa, Heron Place, Streamside Assisted Living; Orofino: Brookside Landing; Payette: Cottages-Payette; Pocatello: South Bannock Home, Independence Home, Quail Ridge, Olympus Heights Home, McCoy House Group Home;
Post Falls: Guardian Angel Homes; Rexburg: Madison Carriage Cove; St. Anthony: Homestead-St. Anthony; Star: Autumn Cove; Twin Falls: Chardonnay, Serenity, Twin Falls Care; Weiser: Indianhead Estates, Cottages of Weiser, Weiser Care of Cascadia.
Friday’s coronavirus update
The state’s seven health districts announced a combined 507 new confirmed cases of the coronavirus and four new deaths on Friday.
The new deaths were in Canyon (2 new, 48 total), Ada (1 new, 77 total) and Kootenai (1 new, 16 total) counties. Idaho has lost 38 residents to the virus in the month of August alone and 231 total.
There have been 22,462 confirmed cases of the coronavirus statewide since the start of the pandemic. Health and Welfare also reported 31 new “probable cases,” bringing that total to 1,514. Additionally, 8,738 people are now considered to be “recovered” from the virus.
The counties adding new confirmed cases Friday were Ada (121 new, 8,161 total), Bannock (9 new, 386 total), Benewah (2 new, 54 total), Bingham (4 new, 263 total), Bonner (2 new, 171 total), Bonneville (41 new, 790 total), Canyon (160 new, 5,374 total), Cassia (14 new, 472 total), Custer (1 new, 10 total), Elmore (1 new, 196 total), Franklin (2 new, 44 total), Fremont (5 new, 69 total), Idaho (1 new, 30 total), Gem (3 new, 156 total), Gooding (8 new, 145 total), Jefferson (11 new, 157 total), Jerome (8 new, 416 total), Kootenai (40 new, 1,745 total), Latah (1 new, 93 total), Lemhi (2 new, 15 total), Lincoln (1 new, 51 total), Madison (6 new, 125 total), Minidoka (9 new, 441 total), Nez Perce (5 new, 128 total), Owyhee (3 new, 237 total), Payette (10 new, 344 total), Power (1 new, 56 total), Teton (6 new, 70 total), Twin Falls (29 new, 1,210 total), Valley (1 new, 52 total) and Washington (1 new, 188 total).
Southwest District Health removed one case from Adams County, dropping its total to 18.
Local hospitals debut new dashboards
St. Luke’s and Saint Alphonsus each debuted COVID-19 dashboards Friday that allow the community to view statistics and trends within their respective health systems.
The data available include testing results by day, percentage of patients testing positive by day, 14-day positivity rate, hospital admissions and the amount of patients who are COVID-19-positive in each health system.
The St. Luke’s dashboard is available at StLukesOnline.org by clicking on the tab at the top of the page that reads “Find additional information and resources here.” Saint Alphonsus information can be found at SaintAlphonsus.org/coronavirus/stats.
The Idaho Statesman will include updates from both health systems in our daily coronavirus reports moving forward.
St. Luke’s Health System: As of Aug. 6, the hospital was reporting a 14-day coronavirus testing positivity rate of 11%, with 55 patients currently hospitalized with confirmed COVID-19 out of 441 patients overall.
Saint Alphonsus Health System: As of Aug. 6, the hospital was reporting a 14-day testing rate of 24.4%, with 41 patients currently hospitalized with confirmed COVID-19 out of 383 patients overall.
Nez Perce Tribe reports new cases
Nimiipuu Health in Lapwai, which serves the Nez Perce Tribe, had 13 individuals test positive as of 3 p.m. Friday. All cases were travel related, according to NMPH, and there are still some tests pending results.
NMPH says it can conduct a maximum of 20 tests per day. To date, it has run 750 COVID-19 tests. There are 17 cases currently being monitored.
Daily Details
Overall hospitalizations: Health and Welfare reports that there have been 968 hospitalizations because of the coronavirus, 276 admissions to the ICU and 1,423 health care workers who have been infected. The hospital and health care numbers are based on cases with completed investigations into contacts, not the full number of positives.
Testing totals: At the end of the day Friday, Health and Welfare reported that 201,547 tests had been completed statewide. About 11.1% of those have been positive for COVID-19.
Counties with confirmed COVID-19 cases: Ada 8,161, Adams 18, Bannock 386, Bear Lake 22, Benewah 54, Bingham 263, Blaine 560, Boise 36, Bonner 171, Bonneville 790, Boundary 37, Camas 1, Canyon 5,374, Caribou 29, Cassia 472, Clark 9, Clearwater 15, Custer 10, Elmore 196, Franklin 44, Fremont 69, Gem 156, Gooding 145, Idaho 30, Jefferson 157, Jerome 416, Kootenai 1,745, Latah 93, Lemhi 15, Lincoln 51, Madison 125, Minidoka 441, Nez Perce 128, Oneida 10, Owyhee 237, Payette 344, Power 56, Shoshone 79, Teton 70, Twin Falls 1,210, Valley 52 and Washington 188.
Counties with community spread: Ada, Bannock, Bear Lake, Benewah, Bingham, Blaine, Boise, Bonner, Bonneville, Boundary, Canyon, Caribou, Cassia, Clark, Clearwater, Custer, Elmore, Fremont, Gem, Gooding, Idaho, Jefferson, Jerome, Kootenai, Latah, Lemhi, Lewis, Lincoln, Madison, Minidoka, Nez Perce, Oneida, Owyhee, Payette, Power, Shoshone, Teton, Twin Falls, Valley and Washington.
