This page is a compendium of New York State vaccine information. Due to limited vaccine supply, appointments may not be widely available but will increase as more vaccines are allocated to New York State providers. Please use the below links to schedule appointments with vaccine providers. GNYHA does not provide or schedule vaccine appointments. Scheduling…

Information concerning COVID-19 vaccination planning and distribution is moving rapidly. Below is a compilation of guidance materials specifically on the COVID-19 vaccine distribution. Please also refer to the COVID-19 Tracking and Regulatory Waivers page for updates on implementation of the State’s vaccination program and the COVID-19 Community, Patient, and Health Care Worker Health Education Material…

In collaboration, with the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, GNYHA is sharing a daily syndromic surveillance report that compares median visits for COVID-19-like illness for the most recent three-day period against the same type of visits for the previous two-week period. The report includes data at the City, borough, and facility…

The NYC Office of Chief Medical Examiner’s Daily Morgue Census Report reflects the information from the previous day including decedent counts, morgue capacity, total numbers of claimed and unclaimed cases, and other key indicators, providing a citywide picture of in-hospital decedent volume and morgue capacity. Please note, the report only reflects information from hospital’s that completed…

In 2017, GNYHA made a free, comprehensive web-based information sharing and situational awareness platform available to all New York State members. Designed to enhance preparedness and response capabilities at the facility, health system, and regional level, Sit Stat is currently used by 115 hospitals and numerous New York City and New York State response agencies….

Sit Stat 3.0 is available to all GNYHA member hospitals and health systems within New York State. This next iteration of the Sit Stat situational awareness platform builds on the existing functionality of Sit Stat 2.0 by adding the ability to integrate with facility or health system bed management systems, enabling the automated flow of…

All GNYHA member hospitals and health systems in New York, including those who are not yet enrolled in Sit Stat 2.0, can now enroll in the Sit Stat 3.0 Integration Program. GNYHA is collecting Enrollment Forms on a rolling basis. The deadline for spring 2021 enrollment is May 1, 2021, followed by subsequent opportunities for…

In 2017, GNYHA made a free, comprehensive web-based information sharing and situational awareness platform available to all New York State members. Designed to enhance preparedness and response capabilities at the facility, health system, and regional level, Sit Stat is currently used by 115 hospitals and numerous New York City and New York State response agencies….

These standardized bed categories were initially developed by the DOHMH-GNYHA Patient Movement Workgroup in 2015-2016. They are designed to facilitate bed matching across hospitals during emergency events that require large-scale patient movement. These definitions were extensively tested during the workgroup process and have been further tested during annual New York City exercises in 2019 and…

GNYHA worked with the Bed Occupancy Data Automation Pilot Project Workgroup to establish data access and governance guidelines to protect the data being shared in Sit Stat via the bed management system integrations. Stemming from the existing Sit Stat data access and sharing standards, these guidelines outline daily and emergency event data access permissions for…

This bulletin provides COVID-19 vaccine-related updates and resources on racial and ethnic data collection and on the neighborhoods on which New York City is focused as part of its COVID-19 vaccine initiatives. GNYHA Resource on Racial and Ethnic Data Collection Federal, State, and local governments continue to emphasize the collection of racial and ethnic data…

The New York State Department of Health (DOH) has re-released Health Advisory: Revised Skilled Nursing Facility Visitation, which supersedes all previous nursing home visitation guidance and is effective tomorrow, February 26. The re-released advisory includes minor typographical changes to the Health Advisory embedded in Governor Cuomo’s February 22 press release (see CCB-11). DOH also sent…