A coronavirus outbreak at a Hennessey nursing home has resulted in 25 residents and six staff members testing positive in the last week.

After nine residents tested positive the previous week, most of whom were asymptomatic, all residents and staff members were tested last Monday, Jill Vincent, Hennessey Nursing Home and Rehabilitation Center administrator, said.

Another 16 residents were confirmed to be positive for COVID-19 in results received yesterday and six staff members received positive results today, Vincent said.

Those staff members have been put into self-quarantine and taken off the work schedule. Aside from two residents currently hospitalized for treatment of COVID-19 symptoms, the rest remain at the center, Vincent said.

In a Facebook post on the nursing center’s page earlier today, a spokesperson wrote that the center is trying to hire additional staff as needed for backup. Vincent told the Times and Free Press that she and the center’s director of nursing can also work shifts to cover for absent staff members.

“We are fine currently (staff wise),” she said.

The Facebook post, which was written before test results started coming in for staff members, reads in part:

“It’s been a heck of a few months for the staff and definitely for the residents and families. We are not perfect. But we care about each Resident. They have become our family and we try to protect them to the best of our abilities.”