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A chat with Samaritan Medical Center’s Carman
Editor’s Note: CNY Executive Q&A is a feature appearing regularly in The Central New York Business Journal, authored by guest writer Jeff Knauss, who is co-founder of his own digital-marketing firm. In each edition, Knauss chats with a different executive at a Central New York business or nonprofit, with the interview transcript appearing in a conversational […]

Crouse Health turns focus to the final phase of $38M emergency-department project
SYRACUSE — With the first phase of the emergency-department project complete, Crouse Health now focuses on the second part of the project. The next phase targets the existing emergency department, says Kimberly Boynton, president and CEO of Crouse Health. “It will be renovated into space for our PromptCare patients and will we close the PromptCare
Cook elected president of Le Moyne College Alumni Association board
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — John D. Cook, a partner with Barclay Damon LLP, has been elected president of the Le Moyne College Alumni Association board of
CEO Talk: A chat with Samaritan Medical Center’s Carman
In this edition, I speak with Thomas Carman, president and CEO of Samaritan Medical Center, located in Watertown. He has been Samaritan’s leader since April, 2004. The organization employs 2,220 people. KNAUSS: Tell us a little about your background, Tom. CARMAN: I’m a native of Maine and went to college in Boston at Massachusetts College

Crouse Health turns focus to final phase of $38 million emergency-department project
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — With the first phase of the emergency-department project complete, Crouse Health now focuses on the second part of the project. The next
Seven area startups selected for Upstate Medical’s medical device innovation challenge
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Upstate Medical University announced it has selected seven startups with medical devices and service proposals to participate in what’s being called the
Health-Care Career News-July 2017
OSWEGO COUNTY OPPORTUNITIES DINAH OLSON has joined the medical professional staff at Oswego County Opportunities (OCO) Oswego Center for Reproductive Health. She most recently worked
AMA Study finds that practice owners are no longer the physician majority
Less than half of patient-care physicians had an ownership stake in their medical practice, according to a newly updated study on physician-practice arrangements by the
Viewpoint: The Economic and Moral Burden of Obesity
Obesity is weighing us down — physically and economically. Today, one in five U.S. deaths are associated with obesity, a rate three times higher than previously estimated, according to the American Journal of Public Health. As countries around the world adopt a Western diet, obesity is “jostling with armed conflict and smoking as a human

Five Star Urgent Care opens clinic in Oneonta
ONEONTA, N.Y. — Five Star Urgent Care is now operating a clinic in Oneonta, representing the company’s 12th location statewide. The opening of the Oneonta
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