Coronavirus Outbreak At Hinsdale Facility

HINSDALE, IL — The big increase in Hinsdale's coronavirus cases last week can be largely explained by one place — the ManorCare of Hinsdale nursing home. By the state's count, the home has had 97 residents with cases of the coronarivus and six related deaths as of Sunday.

That's more cases than any other nursing home in DuPage County, except for Windsor Park in Carol Stream, which has 116 cases, according to figures from the state Department of Public Health. The outbreak at ManorCare, 600 Ogden Ave., is potentially affecting nearly half of residents because the facility is listed as having 202 beds.

According to the state, Hinsdale's number of coronavirus cases spiked to 125 last week, up from 47 a week earlier.

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One of the reasons for the jump in cases at ManorCare is the increase in testing of residents, said Julie Beckert, a spokeswoman for ProMedica, the nonprofit that owns ManorCare and other nursing homes.

"The more you test, the more your cases go up," Beckert said in an interview Thursday. "There are a lot of people who are asymptomatic, and they are positive."

ProMedica likes to test residents, she said, so it knows how to deal with the spread of the virus.

The state's count includes confirmed and presumed cases of the coronavirus.

Beckert said ProMedica counts 79 residents in-house with the coronavirus, but she said others could be presumed under the state's number. She said the nursing home counts five deaths because of the virus, not six, as the state says.

According to the Medicare website, ManorCare is rated as average overall. It is rated as above average in staffing and below average in both health inspections and quality measures.