Following an increase in demand for acute bed care capacity across the Southern Tier, Cayuga Health and Cayuga Nursing and Rehabilitation Center announced Wednesday they have teamed up to offer a 3.
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ITHACA, N.Y. (WHCU) – Cayuga Nursing and Rehabilitation opens a dedicated COVID-19 patient facility under the coordination of Cayuga Health.
Cayuga Health says the 37-bed facility is in response to an increase in demand for acute bed care in the Southern Tier and across the region. The COVID-19 facility is located in a separate unoccupied building on the Cayuga Nursing & Rehabilitation Center campus.
Cayuga Health President and CEO Dr. Marty Stallone says the partnership with Cayuga Nursing and Rehabilitation benefits all of our regional hospitals. -
Cayuga Nursing & Rehabilitation Center Opens Dedicated 37-Bed COVID-19 Patient Facility Under Coordination of Cayuga Health
January 19, 2021
Hei Hei Depew, chair of the Employee Assembly, will talk about how she chooses to be hopeful in the face of life’s difficulties on Feb. 4 in the first installment of this year’s Soup & Hope lunchtime speaker series.
Now in its 14th year, the series – this year on Zoom – is open to the public and features speakers and stories of hope. The series’ six talks will be on Thursdays through April 8, all beginning at 12:15 p.m. The talks will be held bi-weekly except for the first two, which will be held in successive weeks.
Depew, a financial analyst in the College of Human Ecology, said the racial impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic are too great to be ignored.
ITHACA, NY Cayuga Health officials announced today that they have been working closely with the Tompkins County Health Department to open a COVID-19 mass vaccination clinic in Ithaca. The 40,000 sq. ft. mass vaccination clinic is located in the former Sears department store at The Shops at Ithaca Mall.
It has been opened for Phase 1 vaccination dispensing and in preparation for the progression of the vaccination distribution. So far, Cayuga Health has administered 5,132 vaccines, at approximately 650-800 per/day, as part of Phase 1A and now 1B. With enough vaccines, the site is capable of administering 2,000 doses daily. Â
âOur mission is to dispense 100% of the allocated vaccine as it is received, and we have done this continuously since accepting our first shipment,â Dr. Martin Stallone, president and CEO of Cayuga Health, said. âIt is our understanding that the more efficient that we are, the greater the allocation can become in the future. As addition
ITHACA, NY Cayuga Health officials announced today that they have been working closely with the Tompkins County Health Department to open a COVID-19 mass vaccination clinic. The 40,000 sq.