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.