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WATERTOWN â Samaritan Medical Center officials said the hospitalâs recent four-star rating from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services annual survey reflects its commitment to providing the best quality care for the community. Samaritan announced Thursday that it had received a four-star rating from the Medicare and Medicaid Services group in its Overall Hospital Quality Star Ratings, an improvement upon last yearâs three-star rating. The Overall Hospital Quality Star Rating encompasses more than 50 inpatient and outpatient measures across five areas of quality into a single star rating, between one and five, for each hospital. The five areas include mortality, safety of care, readmission, patient experience and timely and effective care. This rating corresponds with data Samaritan submitted to CMS in October 2020. ....
Labor shortage forces employers to get creative to attract workers Help wanted sign (Source: MGN, Andreas Klinke Johannsen / CC BY-SA 2.0) By Lexi Bruening | May 17, 2021 at 4:51 PM EDT - Updated May 17 at 5:50 PM WATERTOWN, N.Y. (WWNY) - If you want to know just how hard it is for businesses to find workers, consider this: some employers are now ready to give you bonuses just to take a job. Help wanted signs just arenât getting the job done anymore. âWe have tried to take an approach with employers to say, set yourself apart. Tell your candidates what you have to offer thatâs different,â said Cheryl Mayforth, The WorkPlace executive director. ....
Hospital officials reflect on a year of COVID challenges WWNY Hospital officials reflect on a year of COVID challenges By Abbey Buttacavoli | March 16, 2021 at 5:37 PM EDT - Updated March 16 at 8:49 PM WATERTOWN, N.Y. (WWNY) - A year into COVID-19, we look back at the challenges hospitals faced and continue to meet. “I’m tired and I think that I can probably speak for most of us in health care. I think we all are, but at the same time, I think we are starting to feel a little bit of relief,” said Karen Abare, who leads infection prevention and control at Samaritan Medical Center. ....
CARTHAGE â As North Country Orthopaedic Groupâs affiliation and privileges with Samaritan Medical Center end, a new partnership has formed between the group and both Claxton-Hepburn Medical Center and Carthage Area Hospital to bring a regional approach to orthopedic surgery in the north country. In addition to caring for patients at its Watertown office and outpatient surgery center, the group is now seeing patients in the Ogdensburg community and will soon perform surgeries at both partner hospitals, anticipated to begin before the end of the month. According to Richard A. Duvall, president and chief executive officer of both Carthage Area Hospital and Claxton-Hepburn, this plan has been in the works for about six weeks, though its something that North Country Orthopaedic Group and Carthage Area Hospital have talked about for a number of years: the potential of finding a way to develop a regional approach to orthopedics. ....
Samaritan Medical Center is now allowing inpatient visitors into the hospital. This marks the first time since October that visitors will be allowed to visit their loved ones, but there are some limitations. ....