MVHS offering shuttle service at St. Luke s campus
Mohawk Valley Health System has started offering a shuttle service at the St. Luke’s campus in Utica, to bring patients from their vehicle right to the front door
Posted: Jan 29, 2021 9:58 AM
Posted By: WKTV
UTICA, N.Y. – Mohawk Valley Health System has started offering a shuttle service at the St. Luke’s campus in Utica, to bring patients from their vehicle right to the front door.
Patients should call 315-525-0430 ahead of time to let the shuttle operators know they’re coming, then park in Lot H to be picked up.
It s not the amount that local officials were hoping for, but Oneida County Health received 500 new doses of the COVID-19 vaccine on Wednesday.
County health officials will again begin booking appointments this evening (at ocgov.net) and administering those doses tomorrow at the Griffiss Airport location and at the MVCC Utica campus. Officials say once those 500 appointments are booked, they will again be out and won t book any new appointments until the state delivers more. They also noted they still have 430 doses on hand from a previous delivery from the state.
An exact time for when Oneida County will begin booking those appointments online tonight was not announced, but it will undoubtedly set off a virtual race local residents scramble to snag one of those appointments.
New York state opened its own COVID-19 vaccination site at SUNY Polytechnic Institute in Marcy on Tuesday.
But that doesn’t mean appointments are available.
On Tuesday afternoon, a state website was showing that there were no appointments left for the site. And county health departments, hospitals and pharmacies say they can’t offer more appointments until they get more vaccine and for the most part, they don’t know when that will be.
Oneida County will be able to offer some appointments once 500 doses promised by the state arrives, possibly Thursday, said county Executive Anthony Picente Jr. But that’s only enough to keep the county vaccination sites at Mohawk Valley Community College in Utica and Griffiss International Airport in Rome supplied for about a day, he said.
Dive Brief:
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has announced a $306 billion spending plan as part of his 2021 infrastructure agenda.
In what Cuomo called the largest, most ambitious plan put forward by any state in the nation,” the initiative will focus on a $51 billion transit-oriented redevelopment of Manhattan s Midtown West area and the continued modernization of New York airports and transportation. It also earmarked billions for upstate New York transportation projects that will spur economic growth.
The Midtown West projects which Cuomo said would create 196,000 jobs include an extension of the High Line linear park to the new $1.6 billion Moynihan Train Hall; replacement of the Port Authority Bus Terminal; a $15 billion expansion and renovation of Penn Station; 20 million square feet of retail; 1,400 new affordable housing units; a new waterfront park; and a continuation of the $1.5 billion expansion of the Jacob K. Javits Center.