April 15, 2020 NEWS ALERT: Tulare County Public Health Branch Announces Today that Lindsay Gardens Nursing and Rehabilitation Facility has had 11 Residents Test Positive for COVID-19.

April 15, 2020

Tulare County Public Health Branch announces today that Lindsay Gardens Nursing and Rehabilitation Facility has had 11 residents test positive for COVID-19.  

Lindsay Gardens administration reached out to Tulare County Public Health as soon as they observed symptomatic residents and those residents were able to be tested.

At this time, Tulare County Public Health staff are working actively with Lindsay Gardens and the CDPH Healthcare-Associated Infection program on ensuring they understand the guidelines for caring for COVID-19 patients and appropriately keeping them separate from the residents who are non-symptomatic. Additionally, hospital-associated infection control has been informed and began an initial investigation as soon as the facility reported the first positive case.

State and County personnel are going to be on-site at Lindsay Gardens today to conduct a site visit related to infection prevention.

Updates continue to be available on our website: www.tchhsa.org.

For more information about COVID-19, visit www.tchhsa.org/ncov, https://www.facebook.com/TulareCountyHHSA/, and https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/Immunization/ncov2019.aspx

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