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Loretto and Upstate University Hospital will create a transitional facility for nursing home residents waiting to test negative for COVID-19.
All New York nursing home residents must test negative for COVID-19 before returning to their home. McMahon said that can sometimes take days or weeks, even after physical recovery.
“Instead of that resident sitting in a hospital when they’re recovered, they can now go into this transitional facility, a more comfortable facility for them,” said McMahon. “And then spend their time there waiting to get that negative test where they can go back to their own residence.”
Opening this facility will free up a total of 80 hospital beds. Currently 30% of hospitalizations are from congregate senior living facilities.
Syracuse hospitals can discharge nursing home residents to new Covid-only facility
Updated Dec 18, 2020;
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Syracuse, N.Y. – State health officials have approved a plan to move medically stable nursing home residents with Covid-19 out of Syracuse hospitals and into a facility operated by Loretto, freeing up much-needed space in the hospitals.
Loretto, the area’s largest nursing home operator, will care for the patients in a Covid-only building on its East Brighton Avenue campus. The Fahey building, which is normally used for short-term rehabilitation patients, will be emptied out to make room for up to 144 coronavirus patients who are ready to be discharged from hospitals, but still test positive.
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The novel coronavirus has been a triple-whammy for one New York family, who has seen three members hospitalized with COVID-19 in recent weeks. Three weeks ago we were a normal family; now COVID has consumed and taken over, Angela Losurdo told local outlet CNYCentral. Her father, James, as well as her father’s wife, Cindy, and Cindy’s mother, who is 90, were all hospitalized. The novel coronavirus has been a triple-whammy for one New York family, who has seen three members hospitalized with COVID-19 in recent weeks. (iStock)
Dec 16, 2020
The COVID-19 vaccine was given to the first frontline healthcare workers in Central New York Tuesday.
The first person to receive the vaccine was Upstate University Hospital s Kenzo Mukendi. He works in housekeeping and cleans the hospital s COVID-19 unit.
Upstate University Hospital began vaccinating their first round of staff shortly after noon. 100 more doses will be administered to staff each day through the end of the week.
Upstate University Hospital to share Covid-19 vaccine with Crouse, St. Joe’s hospitals
Updated Dec 16, 2020;
Posted Dec 16, 2020
Suzanne Buck, a nurse at Upstate University Hospital, was among the first group of Upstate employees to receive Pfizer s Covid-19 vaccine Tuesday.
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Syracuse, N.Y. – Upstate University Hospital will share some of the Covid-19 vaccine it received Tuesday with Crouse and St. Joseph’s hospitals.
Some Crouse health care workers will be vaccinated next week at Upstate, said Dr. Seth Kronenberg, Crouse’s chief operating officer. Crouse doesn’t know exactly how many employees will be vaccinated at Upstate because the state Health Department has not yet finalized the details, according to Kronenberg.