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Two men were hospitalized, one in critical condition, after fleeing from New York State Police troopers in an allegedly stolen vehicle before crashing in the area.
Troopers on patrol at approximately 2 a.m. on Friday, May 7 on Route 9W in Ulster County in the Town of Lloyd attempted to stop the driver of a 2005 Nissan Sentra after he committed a traffic violation.
The troopers initiated a traffic stop, police said, but as they approached the Nissan, the driver - later identified as 20-year-old Poughkeepsie resident Anthony Ermo sped away from the scene, prompting a pursuit.
Police said that Ermo proceeded over the Mid-Hudson Bridge into the City of Poughkeepsie before losing control at the intersection of South White Street and Route 44/45, causing the Nissan to overturn and then roll over several times before crashing into a home.
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New York hospitals received mixed safety grades from a consumer watchdog group that analyzed conditions just before the COVID-19 pandemic struck last spring.
Only 16 hospitals statewide, or 10.7%, received the highest A safety grade from Leapfrog, a Washington, DC-based nonprofit, while 30 hospitals received the second-lowest D grade. Just one, New York Community Hospital in Brooklyn, received an F.
The review looked at a variety of serious health-related issues, including data related to infectious disease prevention metrics considered crucial to limiting the spread of coronavirus.
“Seeing how well hospitals are doing on infection prevention, in general, may indicate how well they were able to control the spread of COVID inside their facility,” said Erica Mobley, vice president of administration at Leapfrog.
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Top left: Ashley Pugliese after contracting COVID in February 2020.
Below and right: Pugliese alone and with her family, February 2021. When Ashley Pugliese fell ill in February 2020, her husband drove her to two emergency rooms. The first one looked like a warzone, with people lying on the floor coughing, says Pugliese, an employee assistance professional and mother of two from Fishkill. They fled. The second ER was a bit less crowded, and a TV news channel showed footage of hospitals being built in coronavirus-stricken China. Do you think that is going to end up here? she asked her husband. Turns out, the virus had already arrived and was taking up residence in her own body. At the time, there were no tests in the US for COVID-19, and the ER doctor surmised that she had some sort of stomach bug. Sent home to rest, she was never hospitalized or intubated. But she went on to suffer a different kind of grim fate. She did not get better.
Preemie Twin Who Lost Her Brother at Birth Survives, Heads Home After 408 Days in Hospital
A premature baby girl who lost her twin brother just hours after being born has proved to be a fighter. Having survived, she’s heading home with her mom and dad after 14 months in the hospitals.
Baby Ada Laurel Mesnard weighed just 1 pound (approx. 0.45 kg) when, at just 23 weeks, she was delivered at New York’s Vassar Brothers Medical Center in February 2020. Her brother, Weston, passed away 16 hours after birth.
On April 12, Ada was discharged from Blythedale Children’s Hospital in Valhalla and headed home to Poughkeepsie for the very first time.
Surviving preemie twin released after 14 months at NY hospitals
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A girl born at 23 weeks and weighing just 1 pound at birth went home for the first time Monday after 14 months at New York hospitals.
Blythedale Children s Hospital in Valhalla said a bittersweet goodbye to Ada Mesnard, of Poughkeepsie, who beat the odds and fought to live.
She and her late twin brother, Weston, were born extremely premature in February of 2020 at Vassar Brothers Medical Center.
Tragically, Weston died hours after birth, but Ada was a survivor. We re going to set her up in her little crib with all the toys that she is familiar with and just talk to her, mom and dad there, and just get her comfortable, mom Laurena Mesnard said.