Santa Barbara Cottage Rehab Closed to New Admissions

In response to COVID-positive test results among 14 patients and staff at the Cottage Rehabilitation Hospital (CRH), Cottage has announced it will be shutting the rehab center to new admissions. Cottage stated it will continue to treat existing patients. 

In response to media questions, Cottage issued the following statement: “As of today, CRH remains open for care of our current patients and we are pausing new admissions at CRH while we continue additional focused testing as precaution over the next week.” No breakdown was provided as to how many of the 14 cases were staff and how many were patients.