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Broome Hospitalizations Are Increasing, County Officials Say
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“Your community, your neighbors, are working in those ERs around the clock, and they are tired, and they are getting really taxed.”
addiction treatment
New York Attorney General Announces Opioid Settlement Funds For Southern Tier
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“It’s important, again, that we use these funds to provide lifesaving drugs, and lifesaving treatment.”
App NEWS
Amid Staffing Shortages, Any Loss Of Healthcare Workers Can Have An Impact
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“People are tired, and we’ve seen a significant resurgence here. There’s a significant demand in our emergency rooms, in our COVID unit, in our ICU, and so, we need all hands on deck.”
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Gillibrand Pushes For Investment In Home Health With Binghamton Advocates
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“More than 820,000 Americans are on the waitlist to receive care. Families may have to wait as long as five years, to get home care services that they need for their loved ones who are aging or disabled.”
Antigen Testing
Broome County Reopens Rapid Testing Site
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“Our numbers had gotten so low that we did not need to continue the rapid testing site. But the numbers are going up.”
App NEWS
As Cases Rise, Broome County Struggles To Find Staff For Contact Tracing
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“A lot of our staff is out doing their regulatory jobs, that need to happen, and it leaves us less infrastructure for doing the case investigation.”
1199 SEIU
Healthcare Workers At Ithaca Nursing Home Rally Over Contract
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“Our very important caregivers, our essential caregivers, you called them heroes a year ago, and now you’re expecting them to take cuts to their vital benefits.”
App NEWS
Hartwick College President Margaret Drugovich Plans To Retire
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“I feel confident that the College is poised for even greater success in the years to come.”
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Steuben County Sees Uptick Of COVID-19 Cases Among Children
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“Last year, when everything really started way way back, there was this myth that kids can’t get it, and kids can’t spread it. And that’s obviously been proven way false.”
Uncategorized
Educators Say Pandemic Made Training Nursing Students More Difficult
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“A lot of the older adult care facilities completely shut us out, just for safety purposes, and kind of not bringing outsiders into their communities.”
Rural Health Desk
Residents Live With The Effects Of Chronic Water Damage
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“Not fixing something that you know needs to be fixed now, because the money just doesn’t allow for it at this moment.”
App NEWS
Broome County Officials Warn Of Potential Healthcare Staff Shortages
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“It’s going to be very, very difficult to provide the same level of healthcare if we are, all of a sudden, starting to see people walk off the job and leave the healthcare industry.”
Uncategorized
Vestal Central Schools Prepare For In-Person Learning
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“You have to be at a point where you have plans in place where you can adjust accordingly, and still maintain an education for our students.”
Antigen tests
Home COVID Tests Are Not Perfect, Health Officials Remind Residents
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“The PCR testing is the gold standard, it is the most sensitive and accurate to run to determine the results. The antigen testing is a little bit less reliable.”
App NEWS
Nursing Homes And The New Vaccine Requirement
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“I’m sure we stand to lose some staff, and we’d hate to see that happen.”
App NEWS
COVID Transmission “High” In Broome, Chenango And Delaware Counties
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“At the current rate, things have the potential to get out of control. And the last thing anybody wants to see is another shutdown.”
App NEWS
COVID-19 Cases Deemed “Substantial” In Broome, Delaware and Otsego Counties
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“We’re talking about one to two new cases, daily, sometimes zero cases daily, to about 30 new cases per day.”
Uncategorized
Uptick Of COVID-19 Cases In Tompkins And Chenango Counties
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Tompkins and Chenango Counties had “substantial” levels of transmission.
air pollution
Western Wildfires Cause Air Quality Hazards Across New York
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“The fires aren’t going to go away, and the jet stream isn’t going to change, so we could even see days like this in August, or in October.”
App NEWS
Recent CDC Numbers Fuel Push For Overdose Prevention Centers In NY
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“Especially with that surge of the overdose numbers, it’s not going away, so why not just try it?”
Addiction
Recovery Center Holds On To Remote Meetings
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“Our numbers in person dwindled down to zero because we weren’t even in the building. But the reach that we made tripled.”
Anaplasmosis
Tick-Borne Illness, Rarer Than Lyme, On The Rise In New York
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“Our impression is that probably, you can find five percent, maybe even up to ten percent in areas, it definitely seems to be increasing.”
App NEWS
Gov. Cuomo Enacts Opioid Settlement Fund
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“It’s important that these companies pay up, it’s also important that the money go to where it was intended.”
Addiction
A Look At A Lawsuit Filed By NY Municipalities Over Opioid Crisis
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“In my view, the county taxpayers shouldn’t foot a bill for a crisis that we didn’t create.”
Health
Unemployment Rates For New Yorkers With Disabilities Rose During The Pandemic
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“It was a cycle that individuals were kind of in the hamster wheel on, and some of them are just getting back to comfortable being in the stores now.”
App NEWS
Rural Broome DMV Reopens After Closing Amid Pandemic
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“We’re very happy to be back again, helping to serve the rural community here in the Harpursville area.”