National Guard assists Finger Lakes Health

FINGER LAKES--The National Guard has deployed members to assist Finger Lakes Health's four long-term care facilities: The Homestead in Penn Yan, Huntington Living Center in Waterloo, Living Center at Geneva North and Living Center at Geneva South, in Geneva.
Guard members are being assigned in non-clinical areas:
• providing clerical support
• screening visitors and staff for COVID symptoms
• assisting nutritional services working in the dish room, cleaning equipment and transporting food carts
• helping the housekeeping team
• working with facilities department stripping and waxing floors.
Bill Garrity, vice president of long-term care comments "we are very appreciative of the assistance that the Guard members are providing. This allows our staff to continue to focus on providing the high level of quality care that our residents and their families deserve. We know that the Guard members are leaving their families and their communities to come help care for ours. We cannot thank them enough for their support and all that they are doing for residents."
Gov. Kathy Hochul, in December, began deploying National Guard teams to help care facilities manage the Omicron variant of COVID-19.