Willow Point

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.

Broome County announced two more Willow Point Nursing Home residents had died from COVID-19 bringing the county death toll to 69.

Broome County reports two more deaths from COVID-19, one of those in the one remaining hot spot for the virus in the County.

Broome County has reached a milestone in the coronavirus pandemic, marking 600 positive cases since the outbreak began in mid-March.

Of the 44 deaths from coronavirus in Broome County, three-quarters of those are confirmed or presumed in nursing homes.