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St. Joseph’s Health unveils new helipad for patient arrivals by helicopter
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — St. Joseph’s Health has unveiled Care Flight, a medical helipad located on top of its 98-foot tall building on North State Street

NIH awards Upstate researcher $1.5M grant to develop approach for preventing, treating sepsis
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded Juntao Luo, a researcher at Upstate Medical University, a four-year, $1.5 million grant for
U.S. Army awards Lockheed Martin contract to extend radar range
SALINA, N.Y. — The U.S. Army has awarded Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) a contract modification to insert gallium nitride (GaN) into the AN/TPQ-53 (Q-53) radar

Cayuga Health System CEO Rudd to retire in 2019; board selects Stallone to succeed
ITHACA, N.Y. — Cayuga Health System of Ithaca on Tuesday announced that president and CEO John Rudd, who serves in the same capacity for Cayuga

MVHS secures needed loan for downtown Utica hospital
UTICA — Mohawk Valley Health System (MVHS) already has a $300 million grant for its downtown hospital project, and now it has the additional financing it needs as well. MVHS on Sept. 27 announced it has secured a loan to help fund its estimated $480 million project to build a new 373-bed, 672,000-square-foot health-care campus

Greek Peak spends $2.5 million on equipment and improvements
VIRGIL, N.Y. — Greek Peak Mountain Resort says it has spent about $2.5 million for improvements at its facility in Virgil in Cortland County. It

Security Mutual Life Insurance names two new officers
Guerriero will be directing marketing operations for Security Mutual’s individual life insurance and annuity products, and will also be involved in product development and agent

Crescent Commons, a former factory in Cortland, opens as mixed-use development
CORTLAND — Crescent Commons, a development with both residential and commercial space, is now open at 165 Main St. in Cortland. Empire State Development (ESD) on Sept. 26 announced its grand opening. David Yaman Realty Services of Cortland and Housing Vision Consultants of Syracuse handled the $16 million joint project that renovated the Crescent Corset
What channel is the Syracuse football game on? (at Pittsburgh)
The Syracuse Orange football team (4-1, 1-1 ACC) looks to rebound from its first loss of the season when it visits the Pittsburgh Panthers (2-3,

Crews complete second phase of emergency-services department at Crouse Hospital
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Construction crews have completed the final phase of the $38 million emergency-services renovation and expansion project at Crouse Hospital. The two-phase project
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