The Life Care Center of Old Hickory Village has a nurse who has tested positive for COVID-19. The nursing home says she is a new staffer who had come only for orientation March 27 before falling ill.
Executive director Vasile Dumitru Malenchii says the Tennessee Department of Health was notified after the nurse tested positive April 1. So far, no other employees or residents have tested positive for COVID-19.
Employees are being screened before and after their shifts, and anyone with a fever over 100.4 is sent home, Malenchii says in a statement.
Life Care Centers of America is among the largest nursing home companies in the nation, based in Cleveland, Tenn. It’s been dealing with outbreaks at several facilities, including one in Kansas and one of the country’s most deadly outside Seattle.