LAKE PLACID — The emergency room in Lake Placid could soon be closing its doors. Adirondack Health, which operates the ER at the Lake Placid Health and Medical Fitness Center, submitted a closure plan to the state Thursday. The move comes as the hospital faces inflation and pandemic-related ...

SARANAC LAKE — Adirondack Health announces the following births at the Adirondack Medical Center in September. Buhler: A son, Owen Thomas, born Sept. 1 at 8:16 a.m., weighing 9 lbs. 9 oz. to Hannah Dennis-Buhler and Jacob Buhler of Saranac Lake. Hunter: A daughter, Quinn Penelope, born ...

Starting Saturday, Oct. 1, people entering Canada by plane, train or automobile will no longer face COVID-19 testing or vaccination requirements or restrictions. The Canadian government officially announced on Monday, Sept. 26 that it would drop all COVID-19-related border crossing ...

The Essex County Health Department is offering upgraded booster shots for the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines at the department’s vaccine clinics starting on Monday, Sept. 12. The updated boosters, called “bivalent boosters,” add components of recent variants of the ...

The Essex County Health Department is offering upgraded booster shots for the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines at the department’s vaccine clinics starting on Monday, Sept. 12. The updated boosters, called “bivalent boosters,” add components of recent variants of the ...

With the state Department of Health discontinuing its COVID-19 contact tracing Virtual Call Center on Friday, April 29, the Essex County Health Department is now shifting its focus from calling those who may have been exposed to COVID-19 and recording every positive case to concentrating on ...