An eighty-nine-year-old woman in Vancouver, Wash. is being listed as yet another fatal victim of norovirus. The woman, Mina Allen, was a resident of The Cascade Inn, a retirement home that suffered a norovirus outbreak in early March.

Allen was initially hospitalized for symptoms of norovirus in April.  She was then sent to another retirement home, to a hospice, and, finally, back to the hospice following her release.  She died last Wednesday.

It seems as if norovirus’ grip on the northwest coast is not loosening up any time soon.  The Cascade Inn has suffered more than most senior living facilities, with several deaths occurring  since the outbreak.

Like The Wilsonville, another northwest assisted living home adversely affected by norovirus, the Goldman Mature Market Report will be monitoring this situation closely.

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