SYRACUSE, N.Y. (WSYR-TV) — Upstate Medical University’s Public Health Hotline has expanded its hours arsenic cases of RSV and flu is connected the emergence successful the community. The hotline volition reply calls from 8 a.m. to 11 p.m., 7 days a week, opening Monday, November 28.
The Public Health Hotline fig is 315-464-3979.
“People person galore questions, astir precocious astir RSV and the flu, from grounds absorption to erstwhile should my kid spot a doctor,” said Joey Angelina, RN, MS, who co-directs the hotline with Michele Caliva, MA, BSN, RN, CSPI. “Our squad of Upstate nurses volition beryllium disposable to reply questions and get you connected the way to feeling better.”
If you are looking for nonrecreational help, Michele Caliva says that the hotline volition person a peculiar focus, particularly erstwhile it comes to children with RSV.
“Nurses volition fto you cognize if you should beryllium seen by your superior attraction physician, oregon whether you instrumentality your kid to Golisano After Hours Care oregon the Pediatric exigency room,” Caliva said.
Angelina and Caliva accidental that the accusation hotline is not 911 and if you request aesculapian assistance you should ever beryllium directed to 911.
Golisano After Hours expanded its hours opening Monday, November 14, to grip the expanding fig of children with respiratory issues and different illnesses.