KINGMAN – A large number of Kingman coronavirus cases trace to a single nursing home. The enterprise was identified as the Desert Highlands Care Center during a Thursday press conference conducted by Mohave County.
76 COVID-19 cases have been documented in the Kingman service area. Kingman Regional Medical Center Chief Executive Officer Brian Turney said the hospital has had 18 people receive inpatient treament at KRMC whose infections have been traced to the nursing home on Kathleen Avenue.
Turney said Desert Highlands generated most of its current COVID-19 patient load.
“We have 12 patients in our hospital right now that have tested positive for COVID-19. 9 of those came from the nursing home,” Turney said. “Overall, our total number of patients treated over this whole pandemic period is 24 COVID patients and again, about three quarters of those have come from a local nursing home.”
Management at Desert Highlands was not immediately available for comment.
Prayers for those employees and residents.
Prayers for those employees and residents.
I am would like to thank desert highlands staff for the dedication and care they are providing the residents during this health crisis. I believe that desert highlands began restrictive precautions prior to the stay at home order implementation. Restricted visitors and began mandatory facemasks for employees. No can say how covid19 entered into desert highlands whether a patient who had a medical appointment ,admit from a local hospital,or employee. We do know that desert highlands cares deeply enough to send an infected resident to the hospital if they require hospital care. I would like to applaud all the healthcare workers especially in the kingman havasu and bullhead area for caring for our ill and aged community members. We need to be a supportive and empathetic community in this time of crisis. God bless us.
I am would like to thank desert highlands staff for the dedication and care they are providing the residents during this health crisis. I believe that desert highlands began restrictive precautions prior to the stay at home order implementation. Restricted visitors and began mandatory facemasks for employees. No can say how covid19 entered into desert highlands whether a patient who had a medical appointment ,admit from a local hospital,or employee. We do know that desert highlands cares deeply enough to send an infected resident to the hospital if they require hospital care. I would like to applaud all the healthcare workers especially in the kingman havasu and bullhead area for caring for our ill and aged community members. We need to be a supportive and empathetic community in this time of crisis. God bless us.
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