Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner called Thursday for the construction of an “ultra-modern facility” in Quincy to replace a state-run veterans’ home beset by fatal Legionnaires’ disease outbreaks.

Governor Bruce Rauner has named Michael Hoffman as his new senior advisor to oversee the state’s response to the multiple outbreaks of Legionnaires’ disease at the state-run veterans’ home in Quincy

State officials say they are implementing new water safety measures at the Illinois Veterans Home in Quincy, just as a third case of Legionnaires’ Disease has been confirmed there.

Two more confirmed cases of Legionnaires' disease were found among residents of a veterans home in the western Illinois town of Quincy where the illness has been linked to the deaths of 13 people since 2015, health officials said.

Illinois public health officials delayed informing the public for nearly a week about a deadly 2015 Legionnaires’ disease outbreak at a state veterans’ home in Quincy despite knowing the facility was facing “the beginning of an epidemic,” according to internal emails from Gov. Bruce Rauner’s office obtained by Illinois Public Radio's member station in Chicago, WBEZ.