Another resident of the Hillside Place long-term care facility in Lincoln City has died after testing positive for COVID-19, Lincoln County Public Health and the Oregon Health Authority reported Tuesday.
In addition, a 93-year-old woman who died at Hillside on Aug. 15 who had been tested for the coronavirus the day before she died, had a death certificate that listed COVID-19 or the SARS-CoV-2 virus as a cause of death or a significant condition contributing to death, the OHA said in its daily report.
Logan Pratt, a spokesman for Hillside Place, said the resident’s Aug. 14 test came back negative on Aug. 18. “Hillside Place is not aware of any additional testing nor results received. This resident had been on hospice since July and had several underlying medical conditions,” Pratt said.
The agency said Lincoln County’s 13th overall death was an 87-year-old woman who died Sunday at Hillside. She had tested positive Aug. 5 and had underlying medical conditions.
Those are the fourth coronavirus-related deaths at Hillside this month. The outbreak at the 37-bed facility spread to 10 residents and 8 staff after an employee brought the virus into the facility.
Pratt said results from its weekly tests of all residents and staff that it conducted Aug. 20 have come back negative.
Eleven of the county’s 13 COVID-19 related deaths have been at Hillside or Avamere Rehabilitation in Newport.
Three new COVID-19 cases Monday in Lincoln County brings the county’s total since March to 456. There have been 22 hospitalizations.
The county has had 16 new cases over the past seven days. But there has been a slowly declining positivity rate of 7.1 percent of all coronavirus tests taken for the week ending Aug. 22.
The OHA reported Tuesday that there had been seven COVID-19 related deaths on Monday, bringing the state total to 427. There were 247 new confirmed or presumptive cases Monday, bringing the Oregon total to 25,391.
