SMH works with senior care facilities to lessen effects of COVID-19 outbreaks

During a Sheridan Memorial Hospital leadership briefing, Chief Nursing Officer Barb Hespen said the medical directors of the West View Health Care Center and Sheridan Manor have managed to control the COVID-19 outbreaks. 

According to Hespen, Sheridan Manor had an outbreak of 42 residents contracting the coronavirus, with three of those residents requiring a transfer to SMH. 

Hespen said if it wasn’t for the vaccine, it could have been worse. 

West View Health Care Center has had a total of seven residents contract the virus.  

Hespen said during the briefing that SMH and the senior care facilities work as a community to protect Sheridan’s most vulnerable population against the coronavirus.