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Samaritan uses Kinney gift to expand mental-health services
WATERTOWN — Samaritan Medical Center in Watertown is using a donation from the Kinney Drugs Foundation to expand its mental-health treatment services and treatment space within the hospital. Gouverneur–based Kinney Drugs and the Kinney Drugs Foundation donated $250,000 in funding to the Samaritan Medical Center Foundation of Northern New York to help fund the expansion. […]
Geneva General Hospital adds neurosurgeon to medical staff
GENEVA — Neurosurgeon Lucas Aurich has recently joined the medical staff of Geneva General Hospital, which is part of UR Medicine Finger Lakes Health. Aurich is an assistant professor of neurosurgery at Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester and serves as neurosurgery director of Geneva General Hospital, according to an April 22 announcement from UR Medicine
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,
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