‘We were waiting for this day’: First visitor returns to New Brighton nursing home
Updated Mar 11, 2021;
Posted Mar 11, 2021
Izabella Genin, left, visits with her mother, Maria Yudin, at Staten Island Care Center in New Brighton Wednesday, March 10, 2021. (Courtesy of Staten Island Care Center)
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On Wednesday, she got her chance.
“We were waiting for this day,” said Genin, whose mother, Maria Yudin, will turn 98 in just two months. “Finally, I saw her.”
New York state expanded visitation guidelines to enable nursing homes to allow visitors in nursing home facilities that have been free of coronavirus (COVID-19) cases for 14 days in conjunction with a rapid test that can be conducted in the facilities.
Nearly 150 new S.I. nursing home COVID-19 deaths reported after judge forces state to release data
Updated Feb 06, 2021;
Posted Feb 06, 2021
Photo shows the entrance to the Carmel Richmond Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center in Dongan Hills on Friday, April 17, 2020. (Staten Island Advance/ Paul Liotta)
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. The state released updated coronavirus (COVID-19) related deaths at nursing homes and adult care facilities after being forced by a judge to release the data.
The state Department of Health updated its website, without a formal press release or announcement, to reflect the new data COVID confirmed out-of-facility deaths of nursing home residents.
First doses of coronavirus vaccine administered in Staten Island nursing home
Updated Dec 21, 2020;
Posted Dec 21, 2020
A banner reading “thank you” has been posted outside Clove Lakes Health Care and Rehabilitation Center. (Photo courtesy of Jody Musicaro-Burkhalter)
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. The first doses of the coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine were delivered to a Staten Island nursing home Monday and administered to residents and staff in a pivotal step in the race to protect those most vulnerable to the disease.
More than 100 residents and about 140 employees at Clove Lakes Health Care and Rehabilitation Center received the first of two shots of the Pfizer vaccine on Monday, said Jane Harris, a spokeswoman for the facility.