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Two passersby are being credited with saving the life of a woman who had jumped from the East State Street Bridge into Olean Creek.

Those facilities have some of the lowest percentages of available staffed hospital beds in New York . In the five-county Western New York region, just 3% of hospital beds were available in Chautauqua County and only 8% were open in Cattaraugus County.<br/><br/>

Edward D. Linnecke, Jr. of Allegany County was pronounced dead at the scene.

New York State Police said Edward D. Linnecke Jr., 30, of Scio, was pronounced dead following a crash on County Route 9 in Scio on Monday.

Temporary positions being added to help where needed in areas such as the Emergency Department and environmental services.

Courtesy of Bradford Regional Medical Center The Bradford Regional Medical Center will no longer have a surgical department starting in April, the Upper Allegheny Health System, which operates Bradford Regional and the Olean General Hospital in New York, announced Wednesday. The Upper Allegheny Health System said it’s consolidating its acute care and surgical services to Olean General, which is about 20 miles northeast of Bradford. The decision will leave 10 beds in service at the Bradford ...

ALFRED — The Nursing Department at Alfred State College recognizes and thanks the healthcare facilities that continued to support the department and its students this past semester, particularly in the midst of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. During the fall 2020 semester, several healthcare facilities provided valuable clinical experiences to ASC nursing students, including: Olean General Hospital, Jones Memorial Hospital (Wellsville), Cuba Memorial Hospital, Highland Rehabilitation Center...

Western New York has hiccups in vaccine distribution process ECMC and Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center are two hospitals where initial doses of vaccines were distributed to the wrong place Author: Liz Lewin (WGRZ) Updated: 2:04 AM EST December 18, 2020 BUFFALO, N.Y. — Approve the vaccine, prepare for the vaccine, distribute the vaccine. Thats the expectation shared by most leading up to the arrival of the Pfizer vaccine and now the Moderna vaccine.  Howev...

Poloncarz: COVID vaccine doses intended for ECMC go to 2 Kaleida Health hospitals instead 2 On Your Side asked how Pfizer vaccine doses intended for workers at ECMC ended up going to two Kaleida Health hospitals. Author: Jeff Preval Updated: 8:46 PM EST December 17, 2020 BUFFALO, N.Y. — Initial doses of the Pfizer COVID vaccine are in the process of being sent to hospitals across New York state. Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz says there was a distribution...

OLEAN — Dr. Jeremy Barnett admits that he cries when his patients are taken off ventilators and tell him they’re hungry or thirsty because it is then he knows they’ll likely survive COVID-19 or other serious illnesses. Barnett, who works in the intensivist unit at Olean General Hospital, which cares for critically ill patients affected by the coronavirus and other health crises, spoke of the overall success of the unit since the onset of the pandemic over nine months ago. Barnett...