New outbreak at Windsor nursing home

Published 6:08 pm Tuesday, December 29, 2020

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Consulate Health Care of Windsor, a 114-bed nursing home that was the site of a COVID-19 outbreak in April, is currently experiencing another outbreak.

According to U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid data, Consulate had two active cases among residents as of Dec. 13 — the minimum needed for the Virginia Department of Health to declare an outbreak. The facility notified the VDH of the new cases on Dec. 14.

The April outbreak, at its peak, resulted in 63 total cases and eight deaths. As of Dec. 25, the last date the VDH updated its site-specific COVID-19 dashboard for long-term care facilities, there were no new deaths.

Consulate Health Care of Windsor, when asked about COVID-19 testing for staff and residents, and if any had yet received a vaccine, deferred to the company’s corporate headquarters in Maitland, Florida. Neither Jennifer Trapp, vice president of corporate communications, nor anyone else in Consulate’s corporate communications office responded to the paper’s requests for comment by press deadline.