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Excellus awards eight CNY hospitals payments for quality improvements

Health Care, Nonprofits, Regional News

Excellus BlueCross BlueShield (Excellus BCBS) has awarded 41 hospitals quality improvement payments, including eight hospitals in Central New York. Excellus awarded a total of $22.4

New York announces matching-grant funding for private colleges

Banks & Credit Unions, Construction, Design & Real Estate, Health Care, Sports, Entertainment & Tourism

Four Central New York colleges are among private institutions statewide that will use funding from a matching-grants program for projects on their campuses. The schools

Utica College to use $2.5 million in state matching funds for athletic-facility upgrades

Construction, Design & Real Estate, Health Care, New York News, Regional News

UTICA, N.Y. — New York State has awarded Utica College $2.5 million in matching state funds toward projects to improve the school’s athletic facilities. Utica

St. Joseph’s cardiac and pulmonary rehabilitation programs are recertified

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SYRACUSE — St. Joseph’s Health announced that its cardiac and pulmonary rehabilitation programs were recently recertified by the American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation (AACVPR) through August 2018. Programs that are certified by AACVPR participate in its national registry. “Being part of the national registry allows us to compare our outcomes with other cardiac-pulmonary

Education-tech firm 2U assists SU’s iSchool on online graduate programs

Health Care, Subscriber Only, Technology

SYRACUSE — The Syracuse University (SU) School of Information Studies (iSchool) says it is working with 2U, an education-technology company, in offering three online graduate programs. The degree programs include Master of Science degrees in information management; library and information science; and library and information science: school media. Students can start taking the online course in

Price Chopper to test new telemedicine service at Fulton store

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FULTON — Price Chopper recently announced that it would test a live, telemedicine service at its Fulton grocery store, in addition to three other stores across New York state and one in Vermont. Price Chopper partnered with Computerized Screening Inc. (CSI), a provider of in-store health stations, and Doctor on Demand, a video telemedicine provider,

Upstate Medical launches precision medicine in cancer care

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SYRACUSE — The State University of New York (SUNY) has awarded Upstate Medical University a grant that the school will use to establish “precision medicine.” Upstate Medical will use the grant of $575,000 to launch the SUNY Institute for Precision Cancer Research, Education and Care (IPCREC), a new initiative of the medical school and its

SUNY Poly, Sitrin to share jointly funded neuropsychology teaching position

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SUNY Polytechnic Institute (SUNY Poly) will split the cost with Sit-in Health Care Center in creating a full-time research and teaching position in neuropsychology. Neuropsychology studies the structure and function of the brain as they relate to specific psychological processes and behaviors, says Robert Yeh, dean of SUNY Poly’s College of Health Sciences and Management.