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Hochul names Bassett to replace Zucker as New York’s health commissioner
New leadership Bassett currently serves as director of the François-Xavier Bagnoud (FXB) Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University and FXB Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. From 2014 through summer 2018, she […]

Cayuga Health, YMCA team up to share resources, offer new services
ITHACA, N.Y. — Cayuga Health and the YMCA of Ithaca and Tompkins County recently formed a collaborative partnership to share resources and “leverage unique assets,” resulting in new services and offerings for the entire community. YMCAs across the nation are partnering with health-care providers to share resources, “resulting in services with an emphasis on a

McMahon says only 1 percent of county’s vaccinated have had breakthrough COVID cases
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Onondaga County Executive Ryan McMahon provided some data on the effectiveness of the COVID-19 vaccine, along with details of a new testing

St. Joseph’s Health’s 122 suspended employees have until Oct. 8 to get vaccine, or lose their jobs
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — St. Joseph’s Health on Tuesday suspended 122 employees who didn’t comply with the state mandate to get a COVID-19 vaccination. Those affected

Hochul selects former NYC health official for state health commissioner
A woman who once served as she served as commissioner of the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene will soon become New

Hochul signs executive order to expand eligible health-care workforce after vaccine deadline passes
Gov. Kathy Hochul on Monday night signed an executive order that “significantly expands” the eligible health-care workforce and allows additional health-care workers to administer COVID-19

Onondaga County rolls out mass-vaccination clinic for COVID booster shots on Wednesday
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Onondaga County Executive Ryan McMahon announced that the county will offer a mass-vaccination clinic for booster shots of the Pfizer COVID vaccine

McMahon says hospital-worker vaccine mandate a “real problem”
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Onondaga County Executive Ryan McMahon says the mandate requiring vaccinations for hospital workers that takes effect at midnight Tuesday morning is “a

Oneida County announces two new business-grant programs
UTICA, N.Y. — Oneida County will be making $200,000 in microenterprise grants and $750,000 in Cares Act grants available to area small businesses and startups

MMRI to use $25,000 donation to continue lupus research
UTICA, N.Y. — The Masonic Medical Research Institute (MMRI) will use a $25,000 donation to continue its research into systemic lupus erythematosus (lupus). Lupus and
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