Breastfeeding Basics
Everyone needs help and support as a new breastfeeding parent! Learn about breastfeeding before your baby is born. The class is taught by a Registered Nurse and an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant.
Learn about:
- Holding your baby skin-to-skin right after birth until has fed the first time
- Delaying common procedures until the first feeding is done
- Keeping your baby in your hospital room around the clock (rooming-in)
- Watching for your baby’s feeding cues (about 8-12 times per 24 hour day)
- How to get the best latch for your baby
- Breastfeeding positions
- Establishing a good supply
- Common challenges
- Community resources and a little about returning to work
Dads, partners and support persons are welcome and encouraged to attend!
Caring for New Families
You’ve been waiting for this day for months! Now you finally get to meet your new baby. Learn how to take care of yourself and your growing family. The class is taught by a Registered Nurse and certified breastfeeding specialist.
Families will learn about:
- The mother and baby department at Samaritan Medical Center
- How to care for yourself and your newborn baby
- Giving baby a bath, changing the diaper and how to care for the circumcision
- How to help when baby is crying
- How to keep baby safe
- When to call the doctor
- About the baby blues and postpartum depression
- And much more!
Classes are free. Call the Car-Freshner Center for Women and Children at 315-785-4050 for more information. The Breastfeeding Basics class is held in Conference Room 2A/2B.
Breastfeeding Basics
Everyone needs help and support as a new breastfeeding parent! Learn about breastfeeding before your baby is born. The class is taught by a Registered Nurse and certified breastfeeding specialist.
Learn about:
- Holding your baby skin-to-skin right after birth until has fed the first time
- Delaying common procedures until the first feeding is done
- Keeping your baby in your hospital room around the clock (rooming-in)
- Watching for your baby’s feeding cues (about 8-12 times per 24 hour day)
- How to get the best latch for your baby
- Breastfeeding positions
- Establishing a good supply
- Common challenges
- Community resources and a little about returning to work
Dads, partners and support persons are welcome and encouraged to attend!
Caring for New Families
You’ve been waiting for this day for months! Now you finally get to meet your new baby. Learn how to take care of yourself and your growing family. The class is taught by a Registered Nurse and certified breastfeeding specialist.
Families will learn about:
- The mother and baby department at Samaritan Medical Center
- How to care for yourself and your newborn baby
- Giving baby a bath, changing the diaper and how to care for the circumcision
- How to help when baby is crying
- How to keep baby safe
- When to call the doctor
- About the baby blues and postpartum depression
- And much more!
Classes are free. Call the Car-Freshner Center for Women and Children at 315-785-4050 for more information. The Breastfeeding Basics class is held in Conference Room 2A/2B.
At Samaritan, everyone’s job is critical to the successful care of our patients and residents. We invite you to learn more about graduate nurse positions.
- Meet with Nursing leaders
- Learn about our facility and services
- On-site interviews available
- Light refreshments will be available
The Samaritan Auxiliary cordially invites you to One Night, One Diamond — celebrating virtually to recognize and honor all Samaritan Caregivers.
Join us virtually on Saturday, March 26, 2022 at 7:00 p.m. All the proceeds from the 2022 One Night, One Diamond Virtual Event will purchase an Ultraviolet Device for advanced room disinfection effective against 35 microorganisms, such as MRSA, C. Difficile, VRE, and CRE to name a few, but also against the novel coronavirus. Proceeds will also support the purchase of Sleep Diagnostic Systems for the Sleep Lab.
Questions/Information: email [email protected]
Join us for the 26th annual Thousand Islands Golf Classic!
Join us at the beautiful Thousand Islands Country Club to enjoy 18 holes of golf while supporting Samaritan Medical Center Foundation. Registration and a continental breakfast will begin at 8:00 a.m., and the tournament’s shotgun start will occur at 9:00 a.m. We will be using both the Old Course and Lake Course to help speed up the play and make room for some fun challenges.
The previous evening—Thursday, June 8th—is our dinner reception and live auction. Cocktail hour begins at 6:00 p.m., followed by dinner and a live auction at 7:00 p.m.
Please click here for additional details and updates, or contact us at [email protected].
Join us for the 25th annual Thousand Islands Golf Classic!
We are excited to bring back our dinner reception and live auction on Thursday, June 9th, at the Edgewood Resort. Cocktail hour begins at 6:00 p.m., followed by dinner and a live auction at 7:00 p.m.
The following morning, on Friday, June 10th, join us at the beautiful Thousand Islands Country Club for our 18-Hole Golf Tournament supporting Samaritan Medical Center Foundation. We will be using both the Old Course and Lake Course to help speed up the play and make room for some fun challenges.
RSVP Today!
Please click here for additional details and updates, or contact us at [email protected].
If you have questions about COVID, particularly about getting vaccinated, Samaritan Medical Center is here for you. From 6 to 8 p.m. on Wednesday, August 18th, North Country clinicians will be taking your calls and answering your questions.
To ask a question, call 315-755-3100. All calls are confidential.
At 7 p.m. WWNY-TV 7 News will be live with a half-hour special report. Anchor Jeff Cole will talk with doctors, who will answer questions on air. They’ll explain why it’s important to get vaccinated and how people can do it.
Answering the phones will be:
- Dr. Jack Barkin, Chief Resident PGY3, Family Medicine, Samaritan Medical Center
- Dr. John Burnett, Family Medicine, Samaritan Medical Center
- Dr. Caitlin Donegan-Tartell, Family Medicine, Samaritan Medical Center
- Dr. Marylene Duah, Infectious Disease, Samaritan Medical Center
- Dr. Asim Kichloo, Chief of Hospital Medicine, Samaritan Medical Center
- Dr. Maja Lundborg-Gray, Emergency Medicine, Samaritan Medical Center
- Dr. Scott Mollison, Orthopedic Surgeon, Samaritan Medical Center
- Dr. Kimberly Movsesian, Chief Resident PGY3, Internal Medicine, Samaritan Medical Center
- Dr. Jan Turcotte, Surgeon, Samaritan Medical Center
- Dr. LaVerne VanDeWall, Internal Medicine, Samaritan Medical Center & Watertown Internists
- Dr. Joseph Wetterhahn, Family Medicine, Samaritan Medical Center
- Dr. Sean Harney, Chief Medical Officer for Employed Medical Practices, Lewis County Health System
- Dr. Andrew Ogden, OB/GYN, River Hospital
- Dr. Prabhjot Thind, Pediatrics, Carthage Area Hospital
- Joanne Atkinson, PA, Primary Care, Carthage Area Hospital
Join the Samaritan Medical Center Foundation from noon to 1 p.m. on Tuesday, April 20th for a FREE virtual workshop on Estate Planning Strategies. Guest speakers are John Nuber, CFA, Senior Financial Associate at RBC Wealth Management, and Tim Doolittle, Attorney at Wladis Law Firm.
Topics Covered:
- Stock gifts
- Required minimum distribution (RMD) gifting
- IRA beneficiaries
- Donor-advised funds
- Charitable trusts
- And other estate planning topics
Please RSVP to [email protected] to receive Zoom call-in information.
Samaritan Auxiliary’s 19th Annual “One Night, One Diamond” will be celebrated virtually in honor of all Samaritan Staff as Our Healthcare Heroes on Saturday, March 27th at 7pm. Proceeds from the 2021 One Night, One Diamond event will assist with the purchase of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) for all Samaritan Staff – our heroes!
Please visit the event website at www.samaritanhealth.com/onod for more information on how to participate in honoring our Samaritan heroes and assist in the purchase of PPE. An RSVP would be appreciated by March 25 in order to allow time to email information on how to join the event. For more information or with questions, please contact event chairperson Irene Carman at [email protected].
