Pacific Care and Rehabilitation COVID-19 outbreak contained to one

Grays Harbor County Public Health, Grays Harbor Emergency Operations Center, and Pacific Care and Rehabilitation would like to update the public on the COVID-19 outbreak at Pacific Care and Rehabilitation in Hoquiam. The third and final round of testing of all employees and residents was completed on August 25th and no new positive cases were identified.

“Pacific Care and Rehabilitation has been successful yet again at mitigating the spread of COVID-19 within their facility,” said Grays Harbor County Health Officer, Dr. John Bausher. “Thanks to appropriate procedures to reduce the spread, no residents have tested positive as part of this outbreak.”

Washington State Department of Health classifies any positive case of COVID-19 within a long term care facility as an outbreak. On August 11, Grays Harbor County Public Health announced an outbreak at Pacific Care and Rehabilitation when one employee tested positive. Testing has been performed every seven days per Centers for Disease and Control guidelines for long term care facilities. There have been 14 continuous days with no positive cases.

In May of this year, a resident of Pacific Care and Rehabilitation had tested positive for COVID-19, and that outbreak was also contained to only one case. This brings the total to two COVID-19 outbreaks identified at Pacific Care and Rehabilitation, each with only one positive case identified during the investigation.

Grays Harbor Public Health updates COVID-19 numbers weekdays at noon on healthygh.org. Subsequent press releases will be issued when community notification is deemed necessary and not for each case and death. 

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