A dose of appreciation during National Nurses Week
WWNY A dose of appreciation during National Nurses Week By Abbey Buttacavoli | May 10, 2021 at 5:02 PM EDT - Updated May 10 at 9:41 PM
CARTHAGE, N.Y. (WWNY) - After a challenging year, there’s a dose of appreciation for nurses. It’s National Nurses Week.
Michael Morgia, a registered nurse, started his career within the last year. Why does he do this job? He looks back to his childhood.
“I was diagnosed with juvenile diabetes at the age of 2 and a half years old,” he said.
That diagnosis is what lead Morgia to Carthage Area Hospital, where he works in the acute inpatient unit.
WATERTOWN â In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, hospitals and health care centers were learning about the virus in real time.
While there was confusion and fear, there was also the underlying notion that society needed to move forward and work together to make it through the largest public health crisis in 100 years.
North country health care providers, while they dealt with a smaller number of patients compared with other hospitals in the state early on in the pandemic, many have been met with challenges along the way. The challenges span a wide spectrum, including financial strain, the canceling of elective surgeries, the lack of personal protective equipment and furloughs. But local health centers have adapted and grown in ways that will carry them into the future of health care in the region.
Snowmobiler rushed to hospital after colliding with tractor trailer Officials on scene said a tractor trailer was traveling on State Route 126 when a snowmobiler pulled out onto the road. (Source: WWNY) By 7 News Staff | January 28, 2021 at 6:13 PM EST - Updated January 28 at 6:13 PM
WATERTOWN, N.Y. (WWNY) - A snowmobile accident in the town of Champion sent one person to the hospital Thursday.
Officials on scene said a tractor trailer was traveling on State Route 126 when a snowmobiler pulled out onto the road.
The snowmobiler was hurt and rushed to Watertown’s Samaritan Medical Center.
We don’t know the extent of injuries.
COVID variant âspreads more easily,â says local infectious disease doctor
WWNY COVID variant âspreads more easily,â says local infectious disease doctor By Lexi Bruening | January 19, 2021 at 2:14 PM EST - Updated January 19 at 7:45 PM
WATERTOWN, N.Y. (WWNY) - You may have been hearing about new, more infectious variants of COVID-19. In fact, one of them has been found in New York state already.
Itâs called the UK variant and itâs 50-percent more infectious. Within six weeks, experts believe it will be the more dominant strain of COVID-19 across the U.S., including here in the north country.
But an infectious disease doctor at Watertownâs Samaritan Medical Center stresses it isnât more or less dangerous than the strain going around now.
Over 300 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine arrive at Samaritan Medical Center
Over 300 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine arrive at Samaritan Medical Center By 7 News Staff | December 20, 2020 at 6:08 PM EST - Updated December 21 at 12:13 AM
WATERTOWN, N.Y. (WWNY) - Hundreds of doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have arrived at Watertownâs Samaritan Medical Center.
The Pfizer vaccine vials were transported from Champlain Valley Physicians Hospital in Plattsburg Sunday.
67 vials arrived in total. There are 5 doses per vial, making for a total of 335 doses.
Samaritan says it will administer those doses to itâs hospital staff on Tuesday.
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