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MAMI, OCC partner to offer medical-interpreter training program
SYRACUSE — Understanding a diagnosis or the doctor’s instructions on how to treat an illness are crucial to receiving good health care, but are often a challenge for those who don’t speak or are not yet fluent in English. And while health-care providers are required to offer translation services, there is a shortage of well-trained […]
Nearly half of local Bryant & Stratton students pursue health-care degrees
SYRACUSE — As the nation moves closer to insurance requirements in the federal health-care reform law, students in the health-care degree programs at Bryant & Stratton College know it’s an issue they’ll deal with as they pursue jobs. “We talk about that … in every class that we teach,” says Sherry Pearsall, faculty member and
Benefits consultants: employer-mandate delay brings mixed reaction
Area businesses with 50 or more full-time employees now have an extra year to make sure they are ready to meet the national health-care reform law’s mandate to provide health insurance for employees. Employee-benefits consultants have been busy in the last few weeks making sure their employer clients understand what the delay involves. The Obama
Le Moyne College is the new home of a business-ethics program
DeWITT — Le Moyne College recently announced that it is the new home of a program focused on ethics in business. And the program cited the school’s work in creating the Jesuit Case Series, a group of business cases with “particular attention to issues of ethics, leadership, and sustainability,” in choosing Le Moyne to house
SRC transfers bioforensics group to SU
SYRACUSE — Syracuse University (SU) has announced the signing of an agreement with SRC, Inc., a nonprofit research company, that transfers the assets and employees
Welch Allyn adds health-care executive from Midwest to its board
SKANEATELES FALLS — Welch Allyn has added Vincent Caponi, an experienced health-care executive from the Midwest, to the board of directors of the Skaneateles Falls–based
Nanoscale college CEO visits CNY Biotech Accelerator
SYRACUSE — Alain Kaloyeros, senior vice president and CEO of the College of Nanoscale and Science and Engineering in Albany, on Wednesday visited Syracuse to
State approves rates for 17 health insurers in upcoming benefit exchange
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo today announced that the Department of Financial Services (DFS) has approved health-insurance plan rates for 17 insurers seeking to offer
SUNY to establish College of Nanoscale Science as separate institution
State University of New York (SUNY) chancellor Nancy Zimpher announced that the “pioneering” College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE) in Albany will become a
Le Moyne College acquires the assets of the Arrupe business-ethics program from Georgetown
DeWITT — Le Moyne College today announced the acquisition of the Pedro Arrupe S.J. Program of Christian Social Ethics in Business from Georgetown University, which
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