Not enough CNY nursing home workers get Covid-19 shots; ‘We are in race against time’
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Christopher Bumpus, director of nursing at Bishop Rehabilitation and Nursing Center in Syracuse, gets a Covid-19 vaccination on Dec. 21, 2020.
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Syracuse, N.Y. Nearly 40% of Central New York nursing home employees are still not vaccinated against Covid-19, four months after the government made them a top priority in its massive vaccine roll-out.
While 87% of Central New York nursing home residents have been vaccinated, only 64% of staffers have gotten shots, according to the state Health Department. Fewer than one-third of staffers at some homes in the region have been vaccinated.
CNY nursing home kept Covid positive, negative residents in same rooms, inspection shows
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Syracuse, N.Y. – A Madison County nursing home hit hard by a Covid-19 outbreak let infected residents share rooms with others who tested negative, an inspection report shows.
Crouse Community Center in Morrisville also failed to thoroughly screen employees for Covid-19 symptoms before letting them work with residents, according to the state Health Department inspection conducted Dec. 9 through Dec. 11.
Crouse is one of six Central New York nursing homes the health department recently cited for breaking infection control rules designed to stop the spread of Covid-19 in these facilities.
St. Cloud ESL Class Goes Virtual Amid COVID-19 Pandemic
Learning a new language as an adult during a public health crisis is exceptionally challenging.
Thanks to a dedicated group of students, teachers and volunteers, the La Cruz Community Center’s virtual English as a Second Language (ESL) classes have continued weekly throughout the COVID-19 pandemic – featuring lessons crafted with current events in mind.
English language classes have been taught at the south side apartment complex for around 20 years. They were originally led by a group of volunteers from a nearby church, according to ESL teacher
Mary Mulbah. In 2009, Mulbah was hired as the program’s first licensed ESL teacher.
Estelle Wells Evans Estelle Wells Evans
Born Helen Estelle Wells at her ancestors’ farm on Sound Avenue, Riverhead, N.Y., on Dec. 22, 1917, Estelle lived there for most of her first 60 years, going to Northville School and then graduating from Riverhead High School. She passed away on Dec. 21, 2020.
At Cornell University, Estelle majored in what was then called home economics, also taking courses in plumbing, electrical wiring and even the sport of fencing. College for her and her two surviving sisters was largely paid for by the peach orchard her father, Leslie T. Wells, planted for that purpose.
As a sister in Sigma Kappa sorority in the class of 1940, Estelle was enormously proud that they pledged an African American student, even though it meant decertification by Cornell.