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Oswego Health gets $15K grant from Oswego County COVID-19 Fund

Pictured is Jill Gilbert of Oswego Health, who played an integral role in validation and setup of the Rheonix machine. (PHOTO CREDIT: OSWEGO HEALTH)

OSWEGO — The Oswego County COVID-19 Fund, an affiliate fund of the Central New York Community Foundation, recently awarded Oswego Health a $15,000 grant to purchase a Rheonix Encompass MDx workstation. The equipment will enable the health system to complete in-house COVID-19 diagnostic testing to further support the community, Oswego Health says. “Prior to the […]

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The equipment will enable the health system to complete in-house COVID-19 diagnostic testing to further support the community, Oswego Health says.

“Prior to the Rheonix machine we had no in-house capabilities for testing as we had to collect samples and then wait on other labs to run them for us,” Duane Tull, chief medical officer for Oswego Health, said in a statement. “Thanks to this grant through the Oswego County COVID-19 Fund, we will have the ability to run multiple samples at a time on site, while decreasing the result timeframe from days to hours.”

Support for this grant has been provided by the Richard S. Shineman Foundation, the United Way of Greater Oswego County, and the Oswego County Community Foundation.

More than 1,200 employees work for the Oswego Health system, which includes the 164-bed community Oswego Hospital; a 28-bed psychiatric acute-care facility with multiple outpatient behavioral-health service locations; The Manor at Seneca Hill, a 120-bed skilled-nursing facility; and Springside at Seneca Hill, a retirement community. Oswego Health also has health-services centers located throughout Oswego County.

Journal Staff