New York State Team
The COVID-19 vaccine rollout in New York has been plagued by supply shortages, miscommunication and unpredictable deliveries as state and federal officials struggle to streamline the dire push to end the coronavirus pandemic, health care leaders said.
Hospitals desperately seek details about when to expect more vaccine deliveries. A vaccination scheduling process effectively stalled at some sites due to the lack of information from government officials. And there s been confusion among some vaccination sites about reporting immunization data to the state.
Those are some of the accounts emerging from the frontlines of the historic effort to get as many COVID-19 vaccine shots into arms as possible, according to a hospital trade group and a federally qualified health center official.
Rochester Regional Health will start rolling out vaccine to seniors at Newark-Wayne Hospital
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Rochester Regional Health announced that it would be contacting primary care patients age 75-and-up to begin scheduling COVID-19 vaccinations.
“As of today, we are hosting a total of ten clinics this week on the Unity Hospital campus, Newark-Wayne Community Hospital campus, Jerome Center (Batavia), and the Riedman Health Center (Irondequoit),” Rochester Regional Health said in a statement.
DAILY: What was it like getting the COVID-19 vaccine? (podcast)
Last week Dr. Gregory Heeb from Newark-Wayne Community Hospital became one of the first in the region to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. That vaccine, while politicized throughout the pandemic, is viewed as one of the few instruments that can get the U.S. population to the other side of the pandemic. At this point, frontline healthcare workers and nursing home residents and staff have received the vaccine. In the coming weeks, more New Yorkers will be eligible to get vaccinated. Today on the podcast, a conversation with Dr. Heeb on his experience with receiving the first dosage.
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The Wayne County Sheriff’s Office reports a personal injury crash that occurred on Botcher Road in the town of Arcadia.
Deputies were called to the report of a vehicle that drove off the road, and into a roadside ditch around 9 p.m.
The operator was identified as Kirt Lockwood, 31, of Palmyra. He was transported to Newark-Wayne Community Hospital to be treated for minor injuries.
NEWARK â As the chairman of medicine for Newark-Wayne Community Hospital, Dr. Gregory Heeb is fairly high up on the hospitalâs proverbial ladder.
So when he was given a chance to be the first Newark-Wayne employee to get a COVID-19 vaccine, he embraced the opportunity.
âIâve been here a long time, and even though Iâm chair of the department I do a lot of clinical work in the intensive care unit and COVID area. Thatâs why I think I was number one,â Heeb said Tuesday, about an hour after getting the Pfizer vaccine. âPart of this job is leadership, and that means leading the way. I was happy to do it.â