A nursing home in Rensselaer County is seeing a spike in coronavirus cases.

Riverside Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing has reported 30 new cases among residents over the weekend. Rensselaer County Executive Steve McLaughlin is now calling on the state for more oversight in private facilities.

"We're at July now; this is not March. This is not the beginning of this crisis," McLaughlin said. "We're months into this, and for this to keep happening, there's some breakdown in either training, PPE wearing, cleanliness, or just common sense that's happening."

It's just the latest nursing home of many across the Capital Region with large outbreaks. McLaughlin says while facilities are still testing at least once a week, they believe an employee came into work and spread it since visitation was still not allowed when the first case was reported.

"Now I think we're up to 30 of the residents and nine of the staff, and that's a significant number," McLaughlin said. "It's still miniscule when you look at the entire population of the county, but when you look at one facility having that number, that's a big number."

McLaughlin says the county has 63 cases right now, which means more than half are contained at Riverside. Still, they don't know where employees are going or have gone when they're not at work.

Citing what the county has done to protect Van Rensselaer Manor, he says private facilities licensed by the state also need to do more.

"[At Van Rensselaer, there is] really high-tech sanitizing and making sure everybody was trained correctly in use of PPE, not letting workers work at other facilities, and I think that's a big one," McLaughlin said. "And I think that's something that should be done, really, at every facility, and I know that's really difficult because a lot of this are not the highest-paid positions out there."

Spectrum News reached out to Riverside for comment and hasn't heard back yet, but the facility does have a statement posted on its website, which reads in part: "We continue to work vigilantly to protect all our residents and staff ... We continue to monitor all residents for increased temperatures and observe for any changes in condition, or new symptoms."

Riverside adds that it screens all employees before their shifts and is working with local and state health officials to ensure they're taking the appropriate steps. Additionally, the facility had an "Open Interviews Today" sign on its front lawn, hiring for RNs, LPNs and nurse aides.

In Albany County, County Executive Dan McCoy is also concerned about the spread in nursing homes, with many of the county's positive cases over the weekend coming from them.

"The majority of the 25 cases reported over the weekend came from congregate settings including nursing homes ... of the nine cases I reported on Saturday, eight were connected to three nursing homes," McCoy said.

None of those cases came from the county's facility, Shaker Place, McCoy added. He said there is another group that he is very concerned about: Young people.

He says people ages 20-29 account for the second largest group of positive cases in the county over the weekend, reminding young adults, teens, and even those in their 30s that are now going out again that they may be asymptomatic and spreading it to others.

McCoy said it's important to socially distance as much as possible, something McLaughlin echoed.