Southwest Illinois nursing home's 'systemic failures' resulted in 8 COVID deaths, state says
NASHVILLE â Eight people died in December as a result of a Washington County nursing home's "systemic failures" to prevent or contain an outbreak of the coronavirus, according to a state inspection report. They were among 72 residents infected with the virus in a span of about three weeks at Friendship Manor Health Care in Nashville, the report states. The Illinois Department of Public Health issued Friendship Manor the most serious citation available to regulatory agencies on Dec. 18; it said residents' health and safety was in "immediate jeopardy" based on what it saw. Friendship Manor...