Second Bellingham nursing home to admit new coronavirus patients into wing for COVID-19
A Bellingham nursing home is one of three in the Puget Sound region setting up COVID-19 units to begin housing residents recovering from the coronavirus in an effort to prevent the respiratory illness from spreading to other long-term care facility residents.
Avamere Bellingham Health Care and Rehab on Birchwood Avenue near the Bellingham Golf and Country Club will be joined by Avamere Transitional Care of Puget Sound in Tacoma and Richmond Beach Rehab in Shoreline, according to a release from the Washington State Department of Social and Health Services.
Together the three facilities, which are all owned by Oregon-based Avamere Family of Companies, will offer 135 beds for recovering COVID-19 patients, the release stated.
“Long-term care facilities across Washington have made incredible strides in a short period of time to combat COVID-19 by practicing proper infection control, limiting visitors and quarantining COVID-positive residents,” Department of Social and Health Services Aging and Long-Term Support Administration Assistant Secretary Bill Moss said in the release. “The creation of COVID-19 units is the next step we need to take to ensure we are protecting Washingtonians who are most at risk for getting the virus.”
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