Nursing Home Positive Case

Nursing Home employee tests positive for virus

Lauderdale county.

We have team coverage for you this morning on the toll coronavirus is taking on the reopening of some businesses and services here in north alabama.

Waay 31's sierra phillips is live with more on the space and rocket center's plan to reopen.

But first..

We start with waay 31's rodneya ross.

She is live with more on a nursing home..

That is expecting the alabama national guard today to sanitize their building after one of their employees tested positive.

Rodneya?

He administrator at mitchell-hollingsworth nursing and rehabilitation center in florence told us the national guard was already scheduled to come sanitize the facility before the employee tested positive.

He nursing home is taking precautions to keep both staff and residents safe during the coronavirus outbreak.

Employees wear personal protective equipment, their temperatures are checked everyday and they answer a questionnaire.

They also have an option to be tested either at work or by their own personal doctor.

The lab that does it for us they provide the test then everyday at 3 they come and pick up any test we've administered and we test just about everyday.

The nursing home is now testing residents with any symptoms of the coronaviurs.

No one else has tested positive.

The national guard is spaying a germ killing solution inside the building for free.

It's a service they are offering to any nursing home that asks.

Reporting live in morgan co, rr, waay 31 news.