What You Need to Know About This Year’s Vaccines

Questions for our infectious disease expert about flu, COVID-19 and RSV.

COVID-19 cases are already on the rise in many places across our area, with masking advised in some hospitals and now mandatory at others. As for flu, “It seems like it'll probably be a pretty ‘normal’ flu season this year — not too early and not too severe,” says  Read More

ISS, Nursing Teams Work Stronger Together to Keep Families Connected

Health care has always been a team effort, but  during the COVID-19 pandemic working Stronger    Together to put patients first can have a dramatic, positive impact on the lives of our patients and families. That’s why the members of our Information       Services and Nursing team[...]

Poison Awareness During the Pandemic

Tens of thousands of children under the age of 6 end up in emergency rooms each year due to accidental poisoning. The COVID-19 pandemic – which has forced families to spend more time at home, and pushed parents to keep larger supplies of chemicals[...]

Disinfectant Safety During the Pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic has changed our lives in numerous ways – including how we approach routine tasks like disinfecting common surfaces in our homes, how often we wash or sanitize our hands, and the number of questions we have about children and disinfectant safety. As the pandemic has forced families and children to spend more [...]

TAC Pandemic Response Puts Residents First

Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, The Alice Center’s team of nurses, aides, social workers, physical therapists and administrators have been leading the conversation on how long-term care facilities should respond to the crisis. Their hard work and dedication has earned them plaudits from state officials and health care professionals acro[...]

Alice Hyde's Med-Surg Team Puts Patients First Through the Pandemic

For the nurses, aides, clerks and providers of Alice Hyde’s Medical-Surgical floor, being there to provide compassionate care to patients and their loved ones isn’t just a job, it’s who they are. But like so many things, the COVID-19 pandemic has changed how their daily mission looks and feels – both to patients and to th[...]

CPS Team Works Together to Put Patient Experience First

Health care has always been a team effort. But amid the COVID-19 pandemic, as Alice Hyde takes extra measures to protect our patients and employees, working Stronger Together has become more important than ever – and some departments, like Cardiopulmonary Services and Cardiology, are leaning on each other to ensure patients get the compass[...]

Food Insecurity, COVID-19 and the Holidays

During the holidays we celebrate in a variety of ways: gathering as families and friends, exchanging gifts, and of course, with food – whether it’s a special dish that has become your family’s holiday tradition, or the act of creating seasonal foods like Christmas Cookies together. But this year, as the COVID-19 pande[...]

Alice Hyde's Laboratory Team Puts Patients First

Since reopening our non-essential patient care services in late April -- about one month after shutting down many services during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in New York State – things have looked different for nearly every patient and employee at Alice Hyde. From our new patient experience at providers’ offices, to[...]

Having a Happy and Healthy Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving is a time when we come together with friends, relatives and loved ones – but this year is different. The COVID-19 pandemic continues to present a serious threat to our community, and we know that private gatherings like dinner parties and game nights have the potential to create high-risk environments for transmission of this [...]