Updated: 3:01 PM EST Dec 18, 2020
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Show Transcript This is an exciting day for HN. As you mentioned, we received vaccine at all of our facilities yesterday, and from the distribution from Pfizer and in earnest this morning at 6 30 began vaccinated, vaccinating our employees at all of the facilities. The preparations have been going on for weeks, as we knew Pfizer had put in its emergency use authorization and awaiting its FDA approval last weekend. But we also knew that we needed to be prepared, and part of that in large was making sure we had the proper storage for the vaccine when it arrived. And as a result, all of our facilities were not only able to receive it but are able to store it as we make our way through our front line employees. But that Dan, I d like you to go ahead and show the video, which really highlights all that preparation and how things went yesterday. Oh Soto highlight. This vaccine is from Pfizer exceptionally safe, very effec
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Hospitalizations in Chautauqua County saw a slight uptick on Tuesday as health officials revealed more detailed plans about local vaccination distribution.
The county Department of Health announced that 59 new cases of the novel coronavirus were confirmed on Monday and that 25 are now hospitalized with the virus a net increase of two since the weekend.
Brooks Memorial Hospital officials told the OBSERVER and The Post-Journal that eight patients were battling COVID-19 last week including two that were in the intensive care unit. Brian Durniok, president of UPMC Chautauqua, the largest provider in the county, did not disclose how many patients were hospitalized with the virus when asked on Tuesday.
Fredonia Mayor Doug Essek was diagnosed with COVID-19 last week, but is doing better.
“My whole family got it,” Essek told the OBSERVER. “They’re all doing well, most were asymptomatic.”
Essek ended up at the hospital one night, but luckily didn’t have to stay.
“I’m doing better than I was, but this is terrible,” Essek added.
“I’m off quarantine and hopefully I’ll get back to some normalcy soon,” Essek stated. “I’m slowly getting there.”
Hospitalizations in Chautauqua County saw a slight uptick on Tuesday as health officials revealed more detailed plans about local vaccination distribution.
Dec 16, 2020
The Westfield Memorial Hospital Foundation 2020 Annual Campaign, is focused on growing the foundationâs new endowment initiative: âThe Little Hospital That Could,â to guarantee funds for the continuation of important hospital services for years to come.
WESTFIELD The Westfield Memorial Hospital Foundation 2020 annual campaign is focused on growing the foundation’s endowment to guarantee funds for the continuation of important hospital services for years to come.
The campaign slogan, “The Little Hospital That Could,” reflects on the hospital’s stellar history of providing care while at the same time recognizes the hospital’s future needs.
Members of the Westfield Memorial Hospital Foundation Board of Directors have served a foundation founded more than 40 years ago to support a unique community hospital that cares for both the Western New York and Eastern Pennsylvania rural community. The board is asking the public’s help to boost the e
UPMC Chautauqua is pictured at its Foote Avenue location in Jamestown.
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Right before the storm of COVID-19 in the middle of March, the Brooks-TLC Hospital System in Dunkirk was in the midst of buttoning up the Lakeshore Hospital in Irving that closed its doors Feb. 2. Running the two health-care campuses during the year of 2019 led to a $20 million loss for the private, not-for-profit operation.
Controlling finances not viruses was the priority then.
Today, however, administrators for the second-largest hospital system in Chautauqua County are clearly focused on the all-out crisis that not only faces the world as well as this region. In a meeting with the OBSERVER this week, officials expressed concerns with the quickly mounting infections taking place across the county.