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Theresa Knapp, 86, was the first Alice Center resident to receive a dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine. Knapp received the vaccine December 21 at the Alice Center, at a clinic administered by Walgreens.
(Provided photo â Alice Hyde hospital) MALONE Visitation at the Alice Center’s Skilled Nursing Facility has resumed, following updated guidelines from the state’s Department of Health. According to a press release from Phillip Rau, a spokesperson for the Malone hospital, visitation at the Skilled Nursing Facility had previously been suspended on March 18 after an employee at the facility tested positive for COVID-19. The resumption of visits at the Skilled Nursing Facility in February followed a months-long suspension of visitation, due to positive tests for the virus in November 2020.
For the first time since October, the Alice Center nursing home in Malone is officially without any active cases of COVID-19.
The Alice Hyde Medical Center, which oversees the Alice Center, announced on Monday that its skilled nursing facility would open its doors to visitors starting on Feb. 22.
Residents of its assisted living program, which is located in a different part of the same building that houses the skilled nursing facility, were able to receive visitors starting on Feb. 8 â but until recently, the skilled nursing facility still had a positive case there, so that part of the building remained closed to visitors.
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A New Yorker receives a COVID-19 vaccine Feb. 8, at a state vaccination site at Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem, Manhattan.
(Provided photo â governor s office) Vaccine eligibility requirements expanded to include a new swath of the population on Sunday. The Essex County Health Department has scheduled a vaccine clinic in the southern end of the county this week, and Franklin County Public Health is piecing together its vaccine distribution plan. Those with comorbidities and underlying health conditions are now eligible to get vaccinated. That includes those with cancer or those in remission, chronic kidney disease, a pulmonary disease, intellectual and developmental disabilities, heart conditions, those who are immunocompromised, those who are pregnant, those who are obese or severely obese, those with a sickle cell disease or thalassemia, those with diabetes, a cerebrovascular disease, liver disease, and those with neurological co
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Letitia James speaks to the Watertown Daily Times editorial board.
(Enterprise photo â Sydney Schaefer, Watertown Daily Times)
ALBANY New York’s total COVID-19 deaths in nursing homes are about 42% more than what the state Department of Health previously published, according to a report from the state attorney general’s office released Thursday morning. The DOH confirmed the higher numbers that afternoon, releasing for the first time the number of presumed long-term care coronavirus fatalities.
According to state Health Department Commissioner Dr. Howard Zucker, department data audited to date shows 12,743 total skilled nursing facility resident fatalities, including 9,786 confirmed deaths from COVID-19 complications 5,957 fatalities within nursing facilities and 3,829 in hospitals and 2,957 presumed virus nursing home fatalities from March 1, 2020 to Jan. 19, 2021.
MALONE â The first COVID-19 vaccines will be administered starting Monday at Alice Hyde Medical Centerâs long-term care facility.
According to a press release from Phillip Rau, spokesman for the facility, residents and employees at the long-term care facility will start receiving the vaccines Monday.
The vaccination program, which will use the Pfizer vaccine, will take place at the Malone facility and be administered by Walgreens. The Pfizer vaccine requires two shots spaced three weeks apart.
Susan Biondolillo, associate vice president of long-term care at Alice Hyde, said the facilityâs team has been working with residents and their families to obtain consent regarding the upcoming vaccinations.