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New York egg production drops slightly in August
New York farms produced 148.5 million eggs in August, down 0.4 percent from 149.1 million eggs in the year-prior period, the USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) recently reported. The number of layers in the Empire State averaged nearly 5.7 million in August, nearly unchanged from the same month in 2020. August egg production per […]
Upstate University Hospital suspends or fires 113 who didn’t comply with vaccine mandate
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Upstate University Hospital has suspended or terminated about 113 employees who didn’t comply with the state mandate to receive a COVID-19 vaccine
Flood-resiliency projects completed in Sterling, at the Port of Oswego
OSWEGO, N.Y. — Work has finished on a flood-resiliency projects in the town of Sterling in Cayuga County and at the Port of Oswego. The project at the Port of Oswego sought to stabilize the west pier wall at the Port of Oswego, an effort the state says will ensure continued safe operation. The project
State to provide more overtime pay for health-care workers at SUNY hospitals
New York State has launched a pilot program to provide nurses, other health-care professionals, and hospital employees at SUNY hospitals an overtime rate of up to two and a half times their normal rate of pay. Overtime is normally at one and a half times the hospital employees’ regular rate of pay, the office of Gov. Kathy
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
Fitch Ratings, Moody’s Investors Service assign credit ratings for Syracuse airport governing body
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Fitch Ratings has assigned the Syracuse Regional Airport Authority (SRAA) a credit rating of A-, while Moody’s Investors Service has assigned a
$1.5 million flood-resiliency project in Cayuga County is complete
STERLING, N.Y. — The state on Tuesday announced the completion of a $1.5 million flood-resiliency project in the town of Sterling in Cayuga County. It
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
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