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Oswego Health finalizing plans for behavioral-health services center

OSWEGO — Oswego Health officials say plans are being finalized to turn a former grocery store into a modern 20-bed behavioral-health care facility. “Oswego Health’s new Behavioral Health Services facility will not only provide the many services that our patients need in an attractive facility specifically built to offer this specialized care, but it will […]

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Grant seeks to improve health care for Utica–area refugees

UTICA — The Neighborhood Center Inc. of Utica will use a grant of more than $500,000 to help improve the health care of the local refugee population in Oneida County. The funding is among nearly $5 million in grants for 13 projects that the Syracuse–based Central New York Care Collaborative announced on July 2. With

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Upstate Medical starts geriatrics department

SYRACUSE — Geriatrics, the branch of medicine that deals with the health and care of older adults, is the focus of a new clinical department at Upstate Medical University in Syracuse. The creation of a department of geriatrics will bring additional funding for “enhanced” services, faculty positions and research, “all aimed at the care and

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Schumer calls on SSA to boost funding for Syracuse field office

CICERO — U.S. Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D–N.Y.) is calling on the Social Security Administration (SSA) to pour additional funding into the Syracuse field office to pay for additional staff and equipment. The Syracuse office has “the longest waits in New York,” said Schumer. “The Syracuse hearing office has a backlog of 9,000 claims.

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Doctor returns to practice after two decades on the business side of health care

CARTHAGE — After nearly two decades of working on the business side of health care, Ancy Kunnumpurath, M.D., has returned to be a practicing physician. She is an internist at Carthage Family Health Center, a unit of Carthage Area Hospital. In 1998, Kunnumpurath and her husband Francis, a CPA, founded SpectraMedi Transcription Services, a nationwide

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“Text Neck” Means Trouble – For Those Addicted to Mobile Devices

Well before the invention of cell phones, medical experts agreed that poor posture is the leading cause of back and neck pain. But the explosion of 24/7 cell-phone use has seriously compounded this problem — and even given rise to a new medical condition called “text neck.” “Text neck” is the nickname for all the

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Uncomfortable Observations about Transportation Security

Here are a few observations that make many of us uncomfy. This year, a few billion people will have to take off their shoes to board an airplane. That is not an exaggeration. This is a lot of tootsies, bother, and nuisance. All because 17 years ago, a doofus boarded a plane wearing explosive shoes

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What the Pledge Means

You know the Pledge of Allegiance, probably by heart. You may recite it only occasionally, or get the chance several times a week. Sometimes, I’m guessing, you say it mechanically, and other times filled with deep meaning.  I hope it’s more often the latter, because here’s what’s remarkable about the Pledge: in a few short phrases,

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ZACH LEADER

Pinckney Hugo Group has hired ZACH LEADER as a junior art director. He has a bachelor’s degree in communication and film studies with a minor in marketing from Le Moyne College.

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Pathfinder Bank

JOSEPH MCMANUS has been named VP, computer operations manager at Pathfinder Bank. He has a bachelor’s degree from SUNY Oswego in information science. McManus has more than 15 years of experience in information technology, previously working as senior network technician for Oswego County National Bank and as a senior information systems architect for PCC Information

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