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Nascentia Health’s MacDonald receives national nursing leadership award
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Nascentia Health announced that Andrea MacDonald, the organization’s clinical operations manager, was named the winner of the 2022 Joan Anne McHugh Award for Leadership in LTSS (long-term services and supports) Nursing. The award is given by LeadingAge, a national organization comprising more than 5,000 aging-services nonprofits. LeadingAge gives the award annually to […]
AMANDA LATTIMORE, CPA has been promoted to audit manager at Fust Charles Chambers LLP. She joined the accounting firm in 2017. Lattimore received her bachelor’s degree and MBA in accounting from SUNY Oswego. SANDY CHEN has been promoted to senior audit associate at the firm. She joined Fust Charles Chambers in 2020. Chen received her
The Bonadio Group promoted 17 staff members in its Syracuse office, effective Sept. 1. The following staff members have been elevated from manager to principal: TYLER SASS, JACOB SKEVAL, and LIFANG LIN. The following staff members have been promoted from senior accountant to manager: CHRISTIAN VIERTEL (audit manager), ELENA MARGREY, MARIYA RADIONOV, and RACHEL KAVNEY.
VIP Architectural Associates announced that ROB SHUTTS has joined the team as the architectural operations manager. He will support the strategic growth of VIP Architectural Associates and will contribute to the achievement of company goals. His role will also include identifying new business-development opportunities. Shutts has 19 years of combined experience in the management of
Cazenovia College announced it has added new staff to student affairs to support the academic and personal development of students. AARON DELORIA was promoted to sergeant of campus safety. He is a 2018 graduate of Cazenovia College and has a master’s degree in television, radio, and film from Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public

Interlakes Orthopaedic Surgery (IOS) has added SIERRALYNN MARIE JOHNSON, a certified physician assistant, to its team of providers. She will be seeing patients at Finger Lakes Health Commons at 789 Pre-Emption Road in Geneva. She will be joining the team of orthopaedic surgeons Dr. Raman Dhawan, Dr. James Mark, and Dr. Helen Wong, as well

Carthage Area Hospital has added speech-language pathologist, OLIVIA NIKITICH to its therapy services staff at Carthage Therapy Services, 1001 West St., Carthage. She is an ASHA-certified speech-language pathologist from Croghan. Nikitich has clinical experience in a variety of settings including schools, hospitals, short-term rehab centers, nursing homes, outpatient clinics, and early intervention, and she is

ABBY LUKACH has been promoted to assistant scout executive in the Leatherstocking Council of the Boy Scouts of America (BSA), based in Utica. In this role, she will assume the number two position in the council. Lukach will provide leadership to the field-staff team to support and grow the scouting movement in the Leatherstocking Council.

New role at Greater Binghamton Chamber focuses on placemaking to shape area’s public spaces
BINGHAMTON, N.Y. — The Greater Binghamton Chamber of Commerce has created a new position within the Office of Placemaking Initiatives and hired Jim Reyen as

General surgeon joins Community Memorial in Hamilton
HAMILTON, N.Y. — Community Memorial Hospital (CMH) announced that Dr. Gregory Ripich has recently joined the health-care system’s surgery team as a general surgeon. He most recently served as the medical director for Surgical Associates of CMA in Ithaca. Dr. Ripich has joined Dr. Martin Ernits in the General Surgery Program at CMH. The organization
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