Thomas F. Trombley, of Pine Plain Road, Gaston, SC, passed away peacefully on April 7, 2021, with his wife by his side.
In lieu of flowers, Thomas requested donations in his name to be made to the Warrior s Walk patients of Dorn VA Medical Center,. Read More
WINTHROP Jo Ann Adams, 76, a longtime resident of Mahoney Road, peacefully and comfortably passed early Thursday morning, April 8, 2021, at her home surrounded by the love of her family under the professional care of Hospice of St. Lawrence. Read More
POTSDAM Elinor Blanche Kellam, 95, peacefully passed away Monday evening, April 5, 2021, at Livingston County Center for Nursing Rehabilitation in Mount Morris, New York.
Skier dies at Whiteface Mountain
Pennsylvania 22-year-old crashed into a tree Tuesday
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Alpine skiing at Whiteface Mountain, in a file photo provided by the Olympic Regional Development Authority.ORDA
WILMINGTON A 22-year-old college student from Pennsylvania died while skiing at Whiteface Mountain Tuesday, State Police said.
Officers responded at 12:33 p.m. after the man lost control and struck a tree while skiing down the Upper Approach Trail.
Essex County Coroner Jerod Heidrick responded to the scene and pronounced Bernhard T. Kahlau, of Mountain Top, Pennsylvania, dead. His body was taken to the University of Vermont Health Network at the Champlain Valley Physician’s Hospital in Plattsburgh where an autopsy was completed on Wednesday. The cause of death was determined to be a cervical skull fracture due to the accident, State Police said.
With coronavirus cases on the rise, Champlain Valley Physicians Hospital s (CVPH) Adirondack Regional Blood Center is looking for plasma donations with COVID-19 antibodies. Christina Beck, the blood bank manager, explained how the process works. “If we can take the antibodies from somebody that has recovered from COVID, and transfuse them into a patient that is just starting to experience symptoms, it helps them recover faster and reduces the severity of the symptoms.”Right now, the challenge is finding people willing to donate. “We re looking for people that have recently been diagnosed with COVID that is willing to come into the donor center and donate their plasma so that we can then transfuse patients at this hospital and other hospitals in the North Country.”Diego Grinberg-Funes, a Urologist at CVPH, recovered from COVID-19 and he donated plasma out of a sense of responsibility. “Our infectious disease person here told me that my plasma has been used on quite a fe
eizzo@adirondackdailyenterprise.com The workload facing local hospitals and county health departments is on track to becoming unsustainable. Health care officials are imploring residents to take precautions to curb the spread before that happens. In a virtual press conference on Friday, multiple doctors from University of Vermont Health Network hospitals and public health directors from around Clinton, Essex and Franklin counties warned that the local COVID-19 caseload was beginning to stress the operations of both hospitals and county health departments. This comes at a time when rural hospitals have already faced significant financial challenges. Before the pandemic, some North Country hospitals were merging and downsizing. Last spring, those financial challenges were compounded when hospitals were directed to cancel elective surgeries for several weeks, cutting off a vital revenue-generator for rural health care facilities that care for a relatively large number of patients