Jan 6, 2021
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Starting Wednesday, all non-urgent surgeries at St. Peter’s Health Partners hospitals will be put on hold as coronavirus cases throughout the Capital Region continue to rise.
Officials said other hospitals in the region have already put elective surgeries on pause until further notice. Hospitals are now shifting their focus on caring for COVID-19 patients and administering the vaccine.
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Capital Region hospitals provide update on vaccine distribution efforts
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Local hospital officials provided an update Tuesday on the coronavirus and vaccine distribution in the Capital Region.
Albany Medical Center has been identified by the state as the Capital Region hub to come up with a plan to get the vaccine out across the region. President and CEO of Albany Med, Dr. Dennis McKenna says both the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines are safe and effective. He says the initial focus will be on the vulnerable, underserved and at risk populations in the Capital Region to get vaccinated.
So far, nearly 1,000 people at Albany Med have received the vaccine.
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ALBANY Hospitals in the eight Capital Region counties said Tuesday they will begin to limit elective surgical procedures to boost their ability to treat COVID-19 patients.
The COVID patient census hit 417 in the region’s hospitals Tuesday, 70 of them in the intensive care unit, and the concern is that another surge of patients sick with the virus will start to arrive in early January, after Christmas celebrations.
Leaders of the hospitals, who began collaborating on a response to the pandemic before it reached New York, have been holding daily conference calls ever since. They held one of their periodic public updates Tuesday at Albany Medical Center and announced their decision to start conserving resources.