WATERTOWN — Samaritan Health has announced that visitation will be suspended for the next few weeks at Summit Village after another round of testing showed more staff members testing positive
WATERTOWN â Samaritan Medical Center on Monday again expanded its limited hospital visitation. But some restrictions will apply to limit the number of people in facilities on any given day, especially with limited waiting area spaces and the ability to social distance safely.
The major patient group impacted by these new changes is hospital inpatients.
Now, two designated visitors per day are permitted. Exceptions may be made for end-of-life visitation, with coordination arranged through the nursing supervisor.
No visitation will be permitted for COVID-19 inpatients, COVID-19 Patients Under Investigation, or patients in quarantine â with compassionate exceptions for end-of-life.
Visiting hours are from 2 to 6 p.m. and all entry and exit will be through the Rotunda entrance, located between the hospital and Samaritan Keep Home.
Louise Henry White of Clayton, who operated a La Fargeville business with her husband for more than 30 years, passed peacefully with her family by her side on Good Friday, April 2, 2021, at Samaritan Keep Home. She was 97.
The daughter of Ernest L. and Mildred Eckert Henry, she was born in La Fargeville, at the home of her grandparents on March 8, 1924. She was raised on a farm in the Great Depression, where her hard work and tenacious attitude cultivated a life-long determination to succeed.
She was a 1941 graduate of La Fargeville Central School and later the Watertown School of Commerce. During World War II, she was employed at Pine Camp (Ft. Drum).
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