Covid-19 rehab

Covid-19 rehab

To heart surgery patients....accident victims.....and others who might have long hospital stays.....coronavirus patients might also need rehabilitation before they can return home.

One local nursing home is helping local hospitals and patients, by providing this treatment for covid - 19 patients.

Newschannel 2's joleen ferris reports.

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None covid 19 patients are exempt from the help the hope and the healing, here at sitrin healthcare, in new hartford.

Just like anyone else, after a lengthy hospital stay, they might require extra care bvefore they're ready to go home.

Sitrin is giving them that care.

(((carts((( currenlty, one patient diagnosed with the coronavirus is receiving care in sitrin's inpatient medical rehab unit 7:41 "we've been ready for this since day one.

This did not come as a surprise to us.

We're ready and we are equipped" safely equipped 5:21 "it is sealed off.

We do have a select staff that are dedicated solely to these individuals and no one else.

They will be wearing protective equipment" ethically equipped 6:35 "we have been directed by the nys dept of health to help hospitals.

We need to free up beds for individuals coming in who need immediate care because they have the virus" and, equipped morally 9:29 "these are our friends, our neighbors, our relatives.

These are local folks.

That's what we do" bonacci says they could receive someone negative or someone positive, since it's unclear how long a person affected sheds the disease.

1:12 " they have been deemed medically stable by a physician and they have been deemed appropriate for sitrin's admission requirements for medical inpatient rehabilitation" sitrin also notified family members of current patients.

And while they're currently only caring for one former hospital patient who was diagnosed positive, they expect there will be more.

Jf, nc2.

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