Jorge Cerda, M.D., chief of the department of medicine at St. Peter’s Hospital, appeared on WNYT-NewsChannel 13 to discuss the importance of vaccinating organ transplant patients against COVID-19. […]
St. Peter’s Health Partners Community Health & Well-Being has partnered with Interfaith Partnership for the Homeless in Albany, Joseph’s House Shelter in Troy, the Joseph Street Outreach Van, and the Homeless and Travelers Aid Society, to distribute COVID care kits for the homeless populations in Albany and Rensselaer counties. […]
Samaritan and St. Peter’s hospitals have the highest hospital staff vaccination rates in the Capital Region, according to data published in the Daily Gazette. […]
Alan Sanders, M.D., chief medical officer for St. Peter’s Health Partners Acute Care, discusses the latest information on COVID-19 vaccines, including side effects and efficacy rates, in a podcast with WTEN’s Trishna Begam. […]
Spectrum News interviewed Alan Sanders, M.D., chief medical officer for St. Peter’s Health Partners Acute Care, about some common concerns surrounding the COVID-19 vaccines. […]
St. Peter’s Health Partners colleagues, Amanda Stahl, M.D., a hospitalist at St. Peter’s Hospital, and nurse anesthetist Morag Bell, marked International Women’s Day in a unique way — they flew a plane over upstate New York following a syringe-shaped flight plan. […]
WTEN/News10 interviewed William Kowal, M.D., chief medical officer for St. Peter’s Health Partners Medical Associates and physician with St. Peter’s Internal and Family Medicine, about efforts to administer COVID-19 vaccines in community-based medical offices. […]
Kirsten Cestaro, M.D., associate director of St. Peter’s Breast Center, was interviewed by WTEN/News10 about side effects of the COVID-19 vaccine and their potential interference with mammogram results. […]
Eligibility for the COVID-19 vaccine expanded to those with cancer in New York state on February 14. Ajaz Khan, M.D., medical director of medical oncology for SPHP, spoke to WTEN/News10 about why timing is so important when it comes to vaccinating cancer patients. […]
The Times Union published an article on pop-up vaccination clinics held in Albany and Troy during the week of February 1. St. Peter’s Health Partners worked in partnership with the New York State Governor’s Office and the Troy Housing Authority to establish and run one of the sites, located at the Kennedy Towers building in Troy. From the article: Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said Wednesday the pop-up sites are expected to reach over 25,000 New Yorkers this week. They are being organized at churches, community centers, public housing complexes and cultural centers in an effort to get the vaccine into poor and minority communities that have been hit hardest by COVID-19. “COVID brought the ugly truth of inequity and inequality in this country to a tipping point,” Cuomo said. “COVID has killed Black and Latino New Yorkers at a higher rate and that is why these community-based sites are one of New York’s vaccine priorities.” St. Peter’s Health Partners began vaccinating residents of Kennedy Towers on Wednesday and was expected to continue that effort Thursday. Mohawk […]
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