MPTF Nursing Home, Once Hard-Hit By Coronavirus, Is Now “COVID-Free”
deadline.comDavid Robb Labor EditorThe Motion Picture & Television Fund’s nursing home in Woodland Hills, which saw the deaths of six residents during the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, “is now COVID-free – exclamation mark,” said MPTF president and CEO Bob Beitcher, who noted that the campus’ last COVID-positive resident left the facility’s isolation unit and returned to his rooms on Wednesday “a free man – free of COVID.”In all, 17 residents had tested positive for the virus – six of whom subsequently died. “Eleven of them have recovered and are back in their rooms,” Beitcher told Deadline, “and on a relative basis, they’re flourishing.” Wide-scale testing of residents and staff, which was unavailable in the early days of the pandemic, “has.
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