Willow Point

Broome County is approved to contract with a Bronx health care management agency to provide consulting services for the Willow Point Nursing Home.

Broome County has a new administrator for the nursing home and rehabilitation center it owns.

Broome County Executive Jason Garnar has issued a State of Emergency for the county-owned Willow Point Nursing Home due to a staff shortage.

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.