Willow Point

A few dozen unvaccinated health care workers in Broome County are off the job with the passing of the state vaccination mandate deadline.

New York State’s requirement that all healthcare workers get the COVID-19 vaccine or lose their jobs is being at least temporarily derailed in court.

One of the Southern Tier’s representatives to Albany pushes back at a mandate that health care workers be vaccinated against COVID-19 or lose their jobs.

There is mixed news for Broome County in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic.

After more than a year, people with loved ones at Willow Point Nursing Home and Rehabilitation Center in Vestal will get to visit in person again.

Thanks to a donation by Broome County Punishers LEMC members, residents of Willow Point Nursing Home will enjoy a little more color and happiness in their day.

It doesn’t look like many Broome County residents will be visiting their loved ones in nursing homes in the next few days.

Broome County reports 175 new cases of the coronavirus on January 20 for a total of 11,032.

Broome County is reporting the first COVID-19 vaccines have been administered at the county-run Willow Point Nursing Home.

Broome County’s Executive is again pointing to the major nursing homes as the hotspots for the coronavirus locally.