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November 16, 2009

Essex County to offer Lake Placid clinics

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LAKE PLACID — Essex County Public Health Department is offering several school-based H1N1 clinics in Lake Placid on Friday.

The clinics will be held at Lake Placid Elementary, Lake Placid Middle/High School, St. Agnes Parochial School and Mountain Lake Academy.

The clinics will be open to children enrolled in the school, school nurses, school nurse aides, school nurse substitutes and school staff members who are pregnant.

As vaccine becomes more available, additional community and school-based clinics will be announced. The Health Department suggests that people watch for updates on the Web site www.co.essex.ny.us/Public

Health or call 873-3500.

Essex County Public Health is also offering a community-based H1N1 clinic in Keene today, by appointment only, for people within the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention target groups. It will be held from 3:30 to 7 p.m. at Keene Central School on Market Street. Appointments can be made by calling 873-3500. Student H1N1 clinics are also being held at that school today.

CVPH CHANGES
In Clinton County H1N1-related news, CVPH Medical Center has closed the special treatment area for flu patients that had been located in the heated ambulance bay of the Emergency Care Center.

In a news release, the hospital said that although patient numbers remain higher than usual, "volumes are down considerably from what they had been."

Hospital officials said the special area "did work quite well and reduce congestion while helping to segregate patients experiencing flu-like symptoms from those that did not."

The hospital still has restricted visiting hours and is continuing to limit who can come in to see patients.

"In fact, there is a groundswell of support from patients that limited visiting hours be retained permanently," the hospital release states. "Patients are telling us that they get far more rest and, with fewer visitors, there is also far less noise.

"Although for years visiting sick patients while in the hospital was considered a courtesy and the neighborly thing to do, today's hospitalized patients are sicker and have far shorter stays. Visiting them can be more of an imposition than a favor."

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