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Thompson outlines goals as new Bassett CEO
COOPERSTOWN — For Bassett Healthcare Network’s new president and CEO Staci Thompson, joining the rural health-care organization just felt right. She first came aboard Bassett in 2023 as its chief operating officer (COO) after working for more than 27 years at the Guthrie Clinic in Sayre, Pennsylvania. Guthrie is another rural-based provider where Thompson held […]

Bassett’s Valley Health Services recognizes five newly certified nursing assistants
HERKIMER — Valley Health Services (VHS) in Herkimer recently celebrated the most recent graduates of its nurse-aid training program that helps its resident assistants become certified nursing assistants (CNAs). The program graduated five new CNAs on April 11, VHS announced in a news release. “At Valley Health, we are all extremely proud of these five

Work underway on Rome Health’s surgical center, ICU addition
ROME — Rome Health says work on the Kaplan Center for Surgical Services and ICU (intensive-care unit) construction project “is really starting to take shape,” per an April 15 announcement on its website. The milder weather in February gave the crew from the Hayner Hoyt Corporation of Syracuse a window of time to excavate the

ECA Onondaga names director of family wellbeing
SYRACUSE — The Early Childhood Alliance (ECA) Onondaga, a coalition of community stakeholders with a shared vision for a more coordinated and strategic early childhood system, announced it has recently appointed Brandi Mee as director of family wellbeing. In her new role, Mee will develop, implement, and evaluate community-informed strategies to drive transformative change and
VIEWPOINT: New York State Budget Bill’s Impact on the Workplace
State enacts paid prenatal leave, keeps paid COVID-19 sick leave on the books through mid-2025 After much anticipation, New York State lawmakers came to a final agreement on a budget bill that contains several key changes employers should note. Three employment-law provisions of Gov. Kathy Hochul’s executive-budget proposal, which we reported on in January, survived

St. Elizabeth campus reuse meeting set for May 7
UTICA, N.Y. — The second public forum regarding the reuse of the former St. Elizabeth Medical Center campus on Genesee Street is scheduled for Tuesday, May 7 at 6 p.m. in the Sinnott Family-Bank of Utica Auditorium at Munson, 301 Genesee St. in Utica, the city announced. City representatives, members of the planning effort’s steering

People news: Bassett names new chief of pediatrics
COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. — Bassett Healthcare Network announced it has appointed Dr. Brandon Greene as its new chief of pediatrics. Greene joined Bassett in 2022 as

Bassett Healthcare plans May 4 career fair with job openings across the health system
COOPERSTOWN — Bassett Healthcare Network will hold a career fair on Saturday, May 4 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Bassett Medical Center’s outpatient clinic, located at 1 Atwell Road in Cooperstown. Both clinical and non-clinical health-care jobs are open across the organization’s eight-county service area of Chenango, Delaware, Herkimer, Madison, Montgomery, Oneida, Otsego,
Madison County receives $2 million grant for healthy housing program
WAMPSVILLE — Madison County Public Health (MCPH) has received a $2 million grant from the Healthy Homes Production Grant Program of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to help mitigate housing-related hazards that can contribute to childhood diseases and injuries in low-income households across the county. “This grant will make it possible

Community Living Advocates provides a network for senior care
SALINA— After years of helping her mother take care of her elderly grandmother, Nancy Aureli figured there had to be an easier way to find and manage the care loved ones require as they age. “I am an RN and still didn’t understand what to do,” she recalls of those years providing care. Even though
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