General Visit Guidelines Posted: September 16, 2020 The health and safety of our patients, visitors, employees, and our communities remain a top priority at The Silvercrest Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation. Therefore, in line with the latest guidelines issued by the New York State Department of Health related COVID-19, we have revised our visiting policy. […]
PANDEMIC EMERGENCY PLAN (PEP)
Employee Covid-19 testing update Effective 9/6/2020 Employee Covid-19 testing New Cases: As of today there are currently 7 employee who has tested positive for COVID-19. Employees who test positive for COVID-19, as a result of nasopharyngeal swabbing will be placed off-duty, for 14 days. Visitation is currently suspended and will resume in 28 days. We will […]
Suspended Visitation Effective 9/3/2020 We unfortunately must suspend visitation due to a suspicious COVID-19 result. The infection surveillance team must perform contact tracing to determine the source and determine the validity of the test. We deeply apologize and will keep you abreast as we move forward.
General Visitation Guidelines Effective June 19, 2020 Target Date: August 3, 2020 The health and safety of our patients, visitors, employees, and our communities remain a top priority at The Silvercrest Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation. Therefore, in line with the latest guidelines issued by the New York State Department of Health related COVID-19, we […]
All patients/residents have been tested for COVID-19/SARS-CoV-2. There are a total of 0 confirmed positive cases and 10 on premises deaths. For those residents who test positive for COVID-19/SARS-CoV-2 and remain clinically stable, the medical protocol will be to manage your loved one at Silvercrest. However, if symptoms worsen, such as the development of respiratory distress, […]
Let us take you to the country of Colombia in the mid 1990’s where a 10 year old Eider Valencia started his fandom for the New York Yankees, catching a game on TV any chance he could to root for his team and his favorite player, the one and only Derek Jeter. Fast forward a […]
Recently one of our many talented residents read some poetry she had written before coming to Silvercrest. Though writing poetry is nothing new to her, this was the first time she read aloud to her peers in the facility. Over the years she has had a passion for writing with both professional and personal […]
On September 28, 2016, Marcello Celli, 29, fell off of a balcony four stories tall and suffered multiple debilitating injuries. After spending a month in the hospital and undergoing many surgeries, Celli sought a rehabilitation center to help him recover. Unfortunately, this process proved to be difficult. Celli was denied time and again by countless facilities due to his age, until he learned about Silvercrest…
In November 2015, Regina Vega entered The Silvercrest Center to start her road to recovery, a journey that happily and remarkably ended with her home as a Silvercrest outpatient. This was extraordinary because in September of that year, Ms. Vega had been hospitalized with cardiac arrest. In the ICU her lungs had accumulated a dangerous amount of water and she was placed on a ventilator as a form of life support…
