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St. Joseph’s establishes patient-navigator program in emergency department
SYRACUSE — St. Joseph’s Hospital Health Center today announced the establishment of a patient-navigator program in its emergency department. St. Joseph’s started the program
USDA chooses Chobani Greek yogurt for school-lunch pilot program
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has chosen Norwich–based Chobani, Inc. to provide its product in the USDA pilot program serving Greek yogurt in school lunches beginning in September. The USDA on July 8 announced that New York is among four states participating in the school-lunch pilot program. U.S. Senators Charles Schumer (D–N.Y.),
MVCC, SUNY Cortland to host open house for graduate center’s new location
UTICA — The Mohawk Valley Graduate Center (MVGC) of the State University of New York (SUNY) College at Cortland is set to open in its
Web-based Simple Admit aims to streamline pre-admission process
BALDWINSVILLE — Daniel Coholan recalls it was a simple conversation that led to what is now Simple Admit, LLC, a company he co-owns in Baldwinsville. For much of his career, 26 years, Coholan had been the sole owner of De-Tec, Inc., a distributor of medical equipment. The idea for Simple Admit resulted from a quick
MAMI, OCC partner to offer medical-interpreter training program
SYRACUSE — Understanding a diagnosis or the doctor’s instructions on how to treat an illness are crucial to receiving good health care, but are often a challenge for those who don’t speak or are not yet fluent in English. And while health-care providers are required to offer translation services, there is a shortage of well-trained
Nearly half of local Bryant & Stratton students pursue health-care degrees
SYRACUSE — As the nation moves closer to insurance requirements in the federal health-care reform law, students in the health-care degree programs at Bryant & Stratton College know it’s an issue they’ll deal with as they pursue jobs. “We talk about that … in every class that we teach,” says Sherry Pearsall, faculty member and
Benefits consultants: employer-mandate delay brings mixed reaction
Area businesses with 50 or more full-time employees now have an extra year to make sure they are ready to meet the national health-care reform law’s mandate to provide health insurance for employees. Employee-benefits consultants have been busy in the last few weeks making sure their employer clients understand what the delay involves. The Obama
Le Moyne College is the new home of a business-ethics program
DeWITT — Le Moyne College recently announced that it is the new home of a program focused on ethics in business. And the program cited the school’s work in creating the Jesuit Case Series, a group of business cases with “particular attention to issues of ethics, leadership, and sustainability,” in choosing Le Moyne to house
SRC transfers bioforensics group to SU
SYRACUSE — Syracuse University (SU) has announced the signing of an agreement with SRC, Inc., a nonprofit research company, that transfers the assets and employees
Welch Allyn adds health-care executive from Midwest to its board
SKANEATELES FALLS — Welch Allyn has added Vincent Caponi, an experienced health-care executive from the Midwest, to the board of directors of the Skaneateles Falls–based
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