BY JANIE ROSMAN There are more questions than answers after news of a nurse at the Dallas hospital that treated the Liberian patient who died last week contracting Ebola. The World Health Organization’s fact sheet, updated September 2014, said the virus is introduced via body fluids, and “then spreads through human-to-human transmission via direct contact […]
This Saturday, October 18 the Town of Orangetown will be holding its annual open house from 11 a.m. – 2 p.m. Residents are invited to come to Town Hall for this free, fun, and family-friendly event. Residents can tour police facilities, see the town jail, meet emergency service experts, see the Emergency Operations Center and […]
On Sunday, October 26, the Bon Secours Charity Walkers Team, whose members include hospital employees and citizens of communities serviced by Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center in Suffern, NY; Bon Secours Community Hospital in Port Jervis, NY; and St. Anthony Community Hospital in Warwick, NY will participate in the annual JDRF Walk to Cure Diabetes. […]
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced the start of the Medicare Open Enrollment, which begins today, October 15 and ends December 7. CMS encourages people with Medicare to review their current health and prescription drug coverage options for 2015. For 2015, Medicare Advantage and the Part D Prescription Drug Program continues to […]
Part IV of a multi-part series BY KERRI SCALES Rockland Solid Waste Authority According to the EPA, there are several classifications of hazardous waste. Without getting into too much detail, today we will define the term “hazardous” as material that poses an increased risk to human health. Often times when we hear the words “hazardous […]
Contributed by Historical Society of Rockland October is Rockland History month. As part of this year’s celebration, the Historical Society of Rockland County (HSRC) will launch the first phase of a multi-year project to digitize its quarterly journal, “South of the Mountains,” and make archived issues available online. The HSRC began publishing “South of the […]