All residents at Phoebe Wyncote are in the process of being evacuated due to staffing problems related to COVID-19.
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The residents are being moved to a new facility owned by the same company in the Lehigh Valley.
"They were having staffing problems due to staff that are positive with COVID-19," said Dr. Valerie A. Arkoosh, Chair, Montgomery County Board of Commissioners on Wednesday.
She says the county is monitoring all of its long-term care facilities and that's where the virus has been extremely dangerous.
"As of today we have 79 facilities that are reporting positive cases of COVID-19 among either their staff or their residents," said Arkoosh.
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She says hundreds of residents and staff have now fallen ill with the virus.
"This brings us to a total of 447 cases among residents and 289 cases among staff," Arkoosh added.
And as of now, 77 residents of long-term care facilities in the county have died.
The 77 deaths represent 64% of all the COVID-19 related deaths in Montgomery County.