CROSSVILLE, Ala. — A Dekalb County assisted living facility is working to contain a coronavirus outbreak.
Joe Perkins, a spokesperson for NHS Managament, who owns "Crossville Health and Rehab," says they tested everyone at their facility last week after a resident had symptoms and tested positive for the virus.
That resident was taken to the hospital. Perkins did not have an update on their current health status.
Out of the 144 people tested at the facility, nineteen residents and eight staff members tested positive. We are told that all of these people who tested positive are symptomatic.
Perkins says the infected residents are in a separate "COVID-19 Unit" and that the infected staff members are at home in quarantine. Staff members have to test negative on two different COVID tests in order to return to work.
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