Owner Of Long-Term Care Facilities Commissions Independent Review

By Lauren Bavis

Published May 22, 2020 at 12:00 AM EDT

FILE- In this May 13, 2020 file photo, test swabs and specimen tubes sit on a table at a COVID-19 testing site.

The owner of more than 80 long-term care facilities across Indiana will commission an independent review of its operations.

American Senior Communities runs the facilities for Health & Hospital Corporation of Marion County. Those groups announced this week that 246 of their residents have died of COVID-19. That’s one-third of the state’s total deaths in long-term care facilities.

The Health & Hospital Corporation Board of Trustees said in a statement that the review will help them provide objective recommendations to address residents’ future needs.

Both organizations also said in a press release that all of their Marion County residents have been tested for COVID-19.

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Lauren Bavis

Lauren Bavis is the digital editor for health and education at WFYI and Side Effects Public Media, a Midwest health reporting collaboration based at WFYI. She was previously an investigative reporter for Side Effects, and with Jake Harper co-hosted Sick, a podcast about what goes wrong in the places meant to keep us healthy. She joined WFYI in 2018, and was part of the Side Effects Public Media team named Indiana’s Journalists of the Year in 2019 by the Indiana Professional Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. She graduated from Towson University in Baltimore, Maryland, and moved to Indiana in 2012. She previously reported on health and social services for the Bloomington Herald-Times.

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