Acadia Center in Riverhead. (Credit: Grant Parpan)
A mourning Calverton family received a letter last month from a local nursing home asking their late matriarch to complete a survey about her stay.
Lyudmila Turok, 81, was admitted into Acadia Center in Riverhead free of COVID-19 on Dec. 1, her family said in a letter it returned to the facility and shared with the News-Review. Ms. Turok, who suffered from dementia, had recently fallen and fractured her shoulder and was rehabbing the injury at the Woodcrest Avenue facility after a stay at Peconic Bay Medical Center.
Ms. Turok tested negative for the coronavirus both before and immediately after her arrival at the rehab center, family members said. She was not allowed visitors and was to only have contact with Acadia staff, they added.
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RN Kristen Hansen gives Peconic Bay Medical Center’s first dose of the COVId-19 vaccine to Dr. Nicholas Palamidessi last month. (Credit: Steve Wick)
On Tuesday morning, just 24 hours after the first COVID-19 vaccine was administered in New York State, a UPS truck arrived at Peconic Bay Medical Center to deliver a single box of the first doses to the North Fork.
Nine months and a week after the coronavirus arrived, forcing local residents to battle for their lives and livelihoods, the weapon to win the war, as the vaccine has been described, is here.
“This is an amazing, historic day,” said PBMC president and CEO Andy Mitchell. “It’s a great tribute to science that this was accomplished so quickly.