Covid-19, the flu and respiratory syncytial virus, known as RSV, can all flare up as the weather cools and people head indoors, Martha's Vineyard Hospital officials said Wednesday.
Health officials on the Island are conducting contact tracing this week after a reported case of chickenpox at the Martha’s Vineyard Public Charter School.
The hospital has seen 43 patients with Covid in the past month, chief nursing operations officer Claire Seguin said, three of which have been hospitalized.
When Valci Carvalho was a teenager, newly moved to Martha’s Vineyard from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, he took a job at the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital. Twenty years later, he's running his own department there.
The Martha’s Vineyard Hospital welcomed staff and patients past and present Thursday to celebrate the 10-year anniversary of the Cancer Center — the clinic that made on-Island cancer care possible.
On Wednesday, Aug. 21, patients, nurses and domestic staff moved into the new Martha’s Vineyard Hospital, and that institution, or rather the brand new edition of that institution, began to function as its founders have long dreamed it might. For months carpenters, masons, plumbers and painters have been employed on the building which occupies a prominent site beside the road leading from Oak Bluffs to Vineyard Haven, and it is fairly safe to say that never a week has passed, scarcely a day, nut that some stranger, riding along the road, has inquired just where the new hospital might be.
As a physician assistant in the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital emergency room, Aubrey Stimola Ryan is versatile — able to understand a variety of medical fields and collaborate with doctors of all specialties.
