NFMMC initially bypassed for vaccines, waits for shipment
NYSDOH: We anticipate that safe transfer
7 Eyewitness News Staff
and last updated 2020-12-17 18:19:45-05
âYou can imagine our employees âour health care workers â our physicians â all of our providers â they re very anxious to receive the vaccine,â declared Joseph Ruffolo, president & CEO, Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center.
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Joseph Ruffolo, president & CEO, Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center.
Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center was set to receive hundreds of doses of the Pfizer vaccine this week, instead the shipment was sent to Catholic Health.
But the New York State Health Department 7 Eyewitness News the hospital should expect to get vaccines.
Hospitals ramping up bed capacity to deal with COVID cases We re seeing more patients being admitted quicker
Hospitals ramping up bed capacity to deal with COVID cases
and last updated 2020-12-09 20:29:20-05
BUFFALO, N.Y. (WKBW) â Hospital leaders have a big task ahead. They are working to ramp up bed capacity to 25 percent.
This is happening as more COVID-19 patients are arriving at hospitals.
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Tom Quatroche, president & CEO, Erie County Medical Center.
âThe problem right now is that we re seeing more patients being admitted quicker than we are seeing people being discharged,â remarked Tom Quatroche, president & CEO, Erie County Medical Center.