PPE

On Monday, residents and staff at local senior homes were among the first in our community to get the vaccine administered. Becky Cavellier, a Physical Therapy Clinical Coordinator at the Jewish Senior Life home in Brighton had this to say: It was pretty easy, filled out paperwork the shot took like 5 seconds, it didn’t […]

Starting Tuesday December 22th, R-Center staff will begin distributing PPE kits along with meals. Each kit contains a 2-ounce bottle of hand sanitizer and three masks. City residents who are not seeking meals are also free to come to the R-Centers and request a PPE kit only. PPE kits will be limited to one per […]

Emergency room doctors are beginning to see an uptick in COVID-19 cases all across the country, sparking fear of a second wave. According to Dr. Megan Ranney, an emergency medicine physician with Brown University in Rhode Island, “We are all seeing increasing numbers of Covid-19 patients who are coming into our ER’s, who are getting […]

The Rochester City School District released their plans to reopen for this next school year. Dr. Lesli C. Myers-Smalls sent out a letter Monday addressing the districts reopening and the School Year 2020-2021: RSCD Together document. To read her letter click here. Prior to the RCSD Together plan, the district asked for input from the […]

Although the Trump administration had promised that it would help supply nursing homes with enough PPE to make it through the pandemic, reports are saying that 1 in 5 facilities across America are coming up desperately short. Even though only 1% of the population in the US lives in these homes, they account for 43% […]

Schools are expected to have their reopening plans submitted to Albany by the end of this week. The state has outlined its own recommendations for students who are medically vulnerable or live with adults with underlying health conditions and says that they should continue learning remotely. This list describes what it means by underlying health […]

The N95 mask has been the industry standard in personal protective equipment (PPE) since 1972. At first, they were designed for industrial use but were adapted for healthcare after virus blocking technology (originally developed to block tuberculosis) was introduced to the platform in 1995 by Peter Tsai, a professor at the University of Tennessee. When […]

Officially we are in Phase 2 of reopening of Monroe County which means barbershops and salons can now open. However, they need to follow certain requirements in order to conduct business. If you are a licensed hair stylist, barber, or colorist and you need face shields the county will supply them to you. There will […]

In the past, litter awareness campaigns usually talked about people littering with candy and fast food wrappers, cans and bottles, cigarette butts or plastic bags. Since more people have started to wear personal protective equipment (PPE) in public, a new waste disposal problem has emerged in parking lots and other places around the country. Mark […]

Dr. Jiqing Ye, a pathologist from Huanggang, China, currently works at Rochester General Hospital. This week, Ye learned that residents of his home town, which is approximately 50 miles from Wuhan, donated personal protective equipment to regional hospitals. The Huanggang High School Alumni Association and Huanggang Middle School Overseas Alumni Association sent a variety of […]