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Forgery reported at Village West
Kansas City, Kansas, police reported on social media that they responded to a forgery and identity theft case at 10 a.m. April 6 in the 1600 block of Village West Parkway.
According to police, a suspect was found using a victim’s information for monetary gain.
by Peggy Lowe, Kansas News Service
Riverbend Post Acute Rehabilitation, a health care facility at 78th and Freeman in Kansas City, Kansas, reported an increase in a COVID-19 outbreak on Monday, with four deaths and 37 people testing positive for the virus.
Of those testing positive, 33 are residents and four are staff workers, said Janell Friesen, Unified Government Public Health Department spokeswoman. It’s a significant rise since Friday, when officials reported 19 cases.
“The investigations around Riverbend are still ongoing,” said Friesen, who didn’t add more information.
The outbreak is a part of an uptick of cases in Wyandotte County, which had 186 at midday Monday, according to state figures.
A call seeking comment to Riverbend’s executive director, Cory Schulte, was not returned.
Riverbend is owned by Big Blue Healthcare, Inc., a subsidiary of Ensign Group, Inc., a Southern California company that owns more than 250 assisted living, skilled nursing, and rehabilitative care facilities in the United States. Riverbend is a former Presbyterian Manor facility.
Under the Big Blue name, Riverbend was cited by Medicare this year as below average on health inspections, staffing and quality of patient care and was fined once during the last three years.
According to a Medicare inspection done in January, Riverbend was cited when a staffer incorrectly treated a resident’s open wound in a common room in view of other residents on Jan. 8, then dumped the infected dressings in a nearby trash can, which is against protocol. The nursing staffer also failed to order a wound culture to identify the resident’s infection, the inspection report said.
“Based on observation, record review, and interview, the facility failed to provide a sanitary environment to help prevent the development and transmission of infections for one of four residents reviewed for pressure ulcers,” the report read.
The facility had the problem corrected within 15 days, according to the report.
In a statement posted on the company’s site on Friday, Schulte wrote that the facility is using several interventions, including universal masking, protective personal equipment for workers interacting with COVID-suspected residents, and screening of workers and medical personnel before entering the building. Riverbend has been limiting visitors since mid-March, he wrote.
“While the Facility has always had a comprehensive infection prevention program in place, we escalated our interventions early in the month of March when news of the coronavirus began circulating,” he wrote.
Peggy Lowe is an investigative reporter at KCUR and the Marketplace hub reporter. She’s on Twitter at @peggyllowe. Kansas News Service stories and photos may be republished at no cost with proper attribution and a link back to kcur.org.
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Look for temperatures on Tuesday to soar to nearly 80 degrees, according to the National Weather Service.
Winds today will gust as high as 18 mph, and the windy weather will continue Wednesday, at up to 25 mph.
The forecast shows thunderstorms moving in to an area to the east, in Missouri, on Wednesday, according to the weather service. Right now these storms are not in the Wyandotte County forecast.
On Thursday night, temperatures are forecast to drop to 32 degrees in Wyandotte County.
The next chance of showers for Wyandotte County will be on Friday night, according to the weather service.
Today, it will be partly sunny, with a high near 80, the weather service said. A southwest wind of 10 mph will gust as high as 18 mph.
Tonight, it will be mostly clear, with a low of 53, according to the weather service. A west wind of 6 mph will become calm after midnight.
Wednesday, it will be sunny, with a high near 79, the weather service said. A light and variable wind will become west northwest 9 to 14 mph in the morning. Winds may gust as high as 25 mph.
Wednesday night, it will be mostly clear, with a low of 39, according to the weather service. A north wind of 10 to 15 mph will become light north northwest after midnight. Winds may gust as high as 25 mph.
Thursday, it will be sunny, with a high near 57, the weather service said. A light northwest wind will increase to 6 to 11 mph in the morning. Winds may gust as high as 22 mph.
Thursday night, it will be mostly clear, with a low of 32, according to the weather service.
Friday, it will be sunny, with a high near 69, the weather service said.
Friday night, there is a 30 percent chance of showers after 1 a.m., with a low of 44, according to the weather service.
Saturday, there is a 40 percent chance of showers before 1 p.m., with a high near 63, the weather service said.
Saturday night, there is a 40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, with a low of 42, according to the weather service.
Sunday, there is a 30 percent chance of showers, with a high near 55, the weather service said.
Sunday night, there is a 30 percent chance of showers, with a low of 35, according to the weather service.
Monday, there is a 30 percent chance of showers, with a high near 48, the weather service said.