LOUISVILLE, Ky – On Tuesday administrators at Signature Health Care announced a milestone in the battle against COVID=19, Administrators say that they have surpassed 1000 recoveries in its 110 facilities in 10 states.
“As of Tuesday, June 23rd, we have a total of 1,103 recoveries. That’s a 77.7-percent of our total number of positive cases so far,” said Joe Steier, President and CEO of Signature HealthCARE. “Much of the media focuses on the negatives of this pandemic that has changed our world. But there are positives, too. We must celebrate the victories and let our communities know, this pandemic can be defeated, one person, one resident, one staff member at a time. We’ve got one-thousand plus victories to prove it.”
Early on in the COVID-19 pandemic, Signature HealthCARE employed a facility-wide testing strategy in select locations, testing all residents and staff, when its first COVID-19 positive cases surfaced. This strategy came highly recommended by Signature’s infectious disease physicians as a way to quickly identify the scope of the virus in a facility, knowing that positive persons can be asymptomatic, and then work swiftly to contain any further spread. This approach was applauded by the CDC and is now being mandated by many states. In tandem with this proactive protocol, Signature HealthCARE made the decision to create several COVID-19 units within select facilities. The flagship facility for the creation of our COVID-19 units was Signature HealthCARE’s facility in Putnam County, Tennessee. Signature HealthCARE of Putnam County . not only trailblazed the way for our COVID-19 units in other states, but also accepted patients from hospitals and other long-term care facilities within the state of Tennessee that did not have the capacity or capability of housing and treating COVID-19 positive patients. Signature HealthCARE of Putnam County is COVID- Free, and its COVID-19 unit is closing as a result. Putnam has seen a total recovery of 51 of its 57 positive cases.
As of Tuesday, June 23rd, some of Signature HealthCARE’s highest state recovery percentages include:
Florida: 62.9%
Georgia: 82.4%
Indiana: 74.3%
Kentucky: 90.2%
North Carolina: 96.3%
Tennessee: 89.6%
Signature HealthCARE operates a facility on Maple Avenue in Terre Haute.