Watch video of Governor Pritzker’s briefing below.

(April 20th, 2020) — Governor JB Pritzker’s stated during his daily press briefing that ALL nursing home staff and residents would be begin to receive Covid-19 testing to identify positive workers and residents in order to isolate known cases.

Over the weekend Governor Pritzker publicly released data of known Covid-19 cases at nursing homes and long term care facilities in Illinois. You can search for confirmed cases at your nursing home, broken down by county, by using the Illinois Department of Public Health website: http://www.dph.illinois.gov/covid19/long-term-care-facility-outbreaks-covid-19

Watch soundbite of Governor Pritzker on holding the nursing home industry accountable:

“We as a state are deeply grateful for [nursing home workers and their service]. That said, we will not hesitate to hold any bad actors at the management level accountable.”

Watch Governor Pritzker’s Full Statement About Testing All Nursing Home Workers and Residents