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Wartburg Marks First COVID-19 Vaccinations In the fight against COVID-19, Wartburg has reached a significant milestone: its first resident and employee vaccinations. Icy Bryan, one of Wartburg’s skilled nursing facility residents, received the organization’s first vaccination. Lavern Goldson-Barnes, a licensed practical nurse and union delegate, was the first employee to be vaccinated.
- December 31, 2020
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Jewish Senior Life Earns Three-Year Quality Accreditation CARF International has announced that Jewish Senior Life has once again achieved CARF accreditation. It is the only Rochester-area organization, and one of only six in New York State, to have earned this recognition.
- December 30, 2020
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Gurwin announces winners of 2020 photo contest in socially distanced ceremony Gurwin Jewish Nursing & Rehabilitation Center recently announced the winners of its 27th annual Photo Contest. Thirty winning photos were chosen from among more than 450 entries for permanent display in the 460-bed nursing and rehabilitation facility.
- December 30, 2020
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Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine Commences at Valley Health Services HealthDirect Pharmacy Services began vaccinating staff and residents at Valley Health Services with the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine on Tues., Dec. 29, 2020.
- December 30, 2020
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Heritage Residents, Staff Get COVID Vaccines As of Dec. 29th, about two-thirds of participating residents at Heritage Ministries’ skilled nursing facilities in Chautauqua County have received their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.
- December 30, 2020
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Vaccinations underway at New York nursing homes A new WNYW segment showcases the rollout of COVID-19 vaccinations to staff and residents at Gurwin Jewish Nursing & Rehabilitation Center and the Hebrew Home at Riverdale.
- December 29, 2020
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$89M Expansion Begins at Jefferson’s Ferry Jefferson’s Ferry secured tax-exempt bonds from the Town of Brookhaven Local Development Corporation and on Dec. 10th broke ground on an $89 million expansion and renovation project during a private, socially distanced groundbreaking ceremony.
- December 28, 2020
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COVID Shots Administered To New York Nursing Home Residents And Staff, But Not All Volunteer To Be Vaccinated The rollout of COVID-19 vaccinations to residents and staff at Gurwin Jewish Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, Parker Jewish Institute for Health Care and Rehabilitation, and other New York nursing homes on Dec. 21st is spotlighted in a new WCBS segment.
- December 24, 2020
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The New Jewish Home Resident Rhoda Winkelman Featured on Cover of New York Post Rhoda Winkelman, one of the first residents of The New Jewish Home’s Manhattan skilled nursing facility to receive the COVID-19 vaccine, was featured on the cover of the Dec. 22nd New York Post.
- December 23, 2020
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Doses of hope: first COVID-19 vaccine doses given at Syracuse nursing home More than 200 staff and residents at the Jewish Home of Central New York at Menorah Park received their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine made by Pfizer on Dec. 22nd.
- December 23, 2020
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