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Nurses honored: Linnecke, Brzezinski, Murray recognized by OGH, BRMC
Brzezinski, Dennis, Lippert and Linnecke were also nominees for the Western New York Professional Nurses Association Nurse of Distinction Award
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Bradford Regional Medical Center and Olean General Hospital honored its nursing staff in conjunction with the hospitals’ National Nurses Week activities.
BRMC presented its Nurse of Distinction in Education Award to Amanda Brzezinski, BSN, RN, and Outstanding Staff Nurse Award to Rachel Dennis, BSN, RN, SANE-A, SANE-P.
At OGH, honorees were Nicole Lippert, BSN, RN, Nurse of Distinction; Hortensia Linnecke, BSN, RN, Nurse of Distinction in Education; Laurie Stewart, RN, Outstanding Staff Nurse; Julie Kenyon, BSN, RN, CIC, Community Nurse of Distinction; Susan Yeager, NA, Outstanding Nurse Assistant; and Brandi Murray, LPN, Outstanding LPN.
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Kathy Masisak, 68, doesn’t want to live in a community without robust medical care. But her local hospital in rural McKean County has been downsizing for years, and she said it’s affecting her family.
“They took a maternity ward away last year, and my granddaughter had to go to Olean which is 35, 40 minutes away in an emergency situation to deliver that baby,” Masisak said. “I was panicking the whole time going over there to see her.”
Masisak lives in Lewis Run, a borough seven miles south of Bradford, where the Bradford Regional Medical Center is about to lose even more services, including departments for acute care and surgery.
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Bradford Regional Medical Center will relocate its acute care and surgical department to its sister hospital in upstate New York in May, leaving only 10 inpatient beds to serve the city of 8,000. (Emily Reddy/WPSU)
Kathy Masisak, 68, doesn’t want to live in a community without robust medical care. But her local hospital in rural McKean County has been downsizing for years, and she said it’s affecting her family.
“They took a maternity ward away last year, and my granddaughter had to go to Olean which is 35, 40 minutes away in an emergency situation to deliver that baby,” Masisak said. “I was panicking the whole time going over there to see her.”
Courtesy of Bradford Regional Medical Center
The Bradford Regional Medical Center will no longer have a surgical department starting in April, the Upper Allegheny Health System, which operates Bradford Regional and the Olean General Hospital in New York, announced Wednesday.
The Upper Allegheny Health System said it’s consolidating its acute care and surgical services to Olean General, which is about 20 miles northeast of Bradford. The decision will leave 10 beds in service at the Bradford hospital and will move the sleep study and occupational health services to Bradford.
“However, the April 1 date is subject to change depending on the COVID-19 pandemic,” the announcement said. “UAHS will not implement the plan so long as the pandemic significantly impacts hospitals, staff and resources.”