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DuPage Care Center reports outbreak control and moves East Building to state review
Summary
Janelle reported that an outbreak of rhinovirus at the DuPage Care Center has been closed and human metapneumovirus cases are winding down; the East Building renovation has advanced to the state Health Facilities Services Review Board for the next approval step.
Janelle provided the Human Services Committee with an operational update on the DuPage Care Center on Jan. 6, 2026, reporting recent infectious-disease activity and progress on an East Building construction review.
She said the center experienced an outbreak of rhinovirus and human metapneumovirus (HMPV). The rhinovirus outbreak has been closed and staff expect HMPV cases to clear in a few more days; there were no new cases on the day of the update. Janelle said HMPV poses higher risk for residents aged 65 and older and that staff have been masking routinely during the flu season and escalating to N95 respirators on affected units.
On construction, Janelle said documentation submitted for the East Building has been accepted and that the project will appear before the state Health Facilities Services Review Board in the coming week, marking the next step in approvals. She described repeated requests from state reviewers for differing documents by floor and said the sequence of reviews has caused scheduling uncertainty, making an exact occupancy date difficult to predict.
Committee members asked follow-up questions about resident illnesses (including RSV, COVID and influenza); Janelle reiterated infection-control measures, masking protocols and that staff have been working closely with the health department to close outbreaks.
The committee received the report without further action recorded in the transcript.
