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“People were seeing their colleagues right across the street getting recognized for what they had been doing in the pandemic. And the state is saying ‘sorry, we can’t do that for you,.”
“I think the decision has been made not to eliminate it, that we’re going to accept it.”
All of the state’s hospitals are required to have an emergency staffing plan in place to make up for shortages, and the Governor questioned whether those plans were deployed.
COVID-19 is adding stress to Pennsylvania’s underfunded behavioral health care system.
The governor estimates that hundreds of hospitals workers have been laid off or suspended for refusing the vaccine.
“These folks here get an ultimatum and a pink slip, and a kick in the butt and sent out the door. It’s wrong.”
“We provided them with access to resources and really talked to those individuals one-on-one to reassure them.”
“The biggest challenge for our hospitals is not…the beds. Just like last year, it’s staffing. Staffing is now what we need.”
“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.”
“I’m sure we stand to lose some staff, and we’d hate to see that happen.”
The 7-day average COVID-19 positivity rate for the Finger Lakes region is now down to .40%.
In recent days, the state’s COVID-19 indicators have shifted downward, with a decline in the statewide positivity rate compared to numbers seen in March.
“We just need to keep the arrows pointed down, but, never get cocky with COVID.”
Gov. Andrew Cuomo, bowing to pressure from local governments, is agreeing to expand the state’s vaccination sites for front-line health care workers.
“The challenge is being able to pivot when we need to pivot.”
“Our hospitals and health care systems continue to be significantly challenged.”
There is “universal support” overall, but some disagreement on specifics.
Since the start of the pandemic, there have been 154 COVID-19 deaths in the county.
“Similar to across the rest of the nation and the state, we are certainly experiencing the highest numbers and more crunch for capacity than we’ve been in anytime during this entire pandemic,” Lopatofsky said.
Garnar said that 30 percent of the ICU beds in the county were available and open as of Wednesday.
With almost 5,000 Pennsylvanians hospitalized due to COVID-19, some hospitals are out of beds.
Retired nurses could relieve some stress and handle any holiday-related increase in cases of the coronavirus and in distributing vaccines should they become available.
“We are not going to live through the nightmare of overwhelmed hospitals again.”
According to Boland, many more staff members have fallen ill in recent weeks than in the spring, when the first wave of COVID-19 hit.
New York has hit another milestone in its fight against the COVID-19 pandemic: hospitalizations from the disease have now dipped below 1,000 for the first time in about three months, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Thursday.
The union says health systems are sitting on stockpiles of N95 respirators, leaving nurses without needed protection, as some hospitals restart elective procedures.
“With all health care, your condition dictates the speed of care provided, and that will still be the case as we look to reschedule.”
“As soon as he saw her face on that iPad, you could see relief in him immediately. She said, ‘Sing with me, Bob’, and he started singing and I literally started crying right there.”
New York and New Jersey want nursing homes to accept recovering hospital patients, regardless of their COVID-19 status, to free up space in hospitals. What’s to keep the virus from spreading?
“Why do we need a pandemic to be this supportive to each other? Maybe we can carry some of this kindness going forward.”
The process would apply to all patients brought to the hospital during the health emergency, not just those sick with COVID-19.
Spurred by the concerns of members in China, Columbia University’s medical school alumni association raised more than $1 million to buy desperately needed masks and other gear.
Cleaners who work in public buildings are also risking their lives to keep others safe in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.
“It’s absolutely crucial that we get this money to people now, for the hospitals now, and for people on the frontlines now, that being individuals.”
Despite a statewide effort to procure and distribute coronavirus testing supplies to hospitals in New York, some facilities still don’t have what they need to test patients quickly on-site.
“New York hospitals provided much worse treatment than U.S. hospitals overall.”
The CDC said more than 35,000 people die from antibiotic-resistant infections each year in the U.S.
The AARP has filed a lawsuit on behalf of workers at a defunct Catholic hospital in upstate New York, saying hundreds lost their pensions unfairly. And there are similar cases around the country.