Tag Archives: Tennessee Department Of Health

A second patient has died at NHC’s Smithville facility from COVID-19 as employee cases at long-term care facilities continue to rise. Data from the Tennessee Department of Health showed a second death at the facility with three patients currently testing positive. Ten patients have recovered. Four employees are currently testing positive. Both the Cookeville and McMinnville facilities are reporting no ... Read More »

Inconsistencies between new state guidelines and federal mandates will keep one local long term care facility closed. Overton County Health and Rehab has already been conducting scheduled visits outside. PIO Scott Stevens said weekly testing must be available before inside access can even be considered. “First of all you have to have one round of testing for the entire facility,” ... Read More »

The city of Monterey completed the next step in connecting its city assets with walking trials and sidewalk. Stubbs Construction of Crossville won the bid to construct sidewalks to provide safe walkways for students of Burks Elementary and Monterey High School. Monterey Grant Administrator Dawn Kupferer said construction for the estimated $163,000 project will begin by the first week of ... Read More »

Putnam County’s number of positive COVID-19 tests reached 204 Thursday, according to the Tennessee Department Of Health. That equates to .25 percent of the county’s population. Statewide, 16,699 people have tested positive. The total Upper Cumberland case count reached 500 Thursday. 292 of those impacted or 58 percent of those tested have already recovered from the coronavirus. Some 5,600 people have tested ... Read More »