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Unity Hospital is the first in the nation to achieve a designation from the American College of Surgeons that recognizes its dedication to providing optimal care for its older adult patients. The American College of Surgeons’ Geriatric Surgery Verification Program ...

Business owners and executives have long been debating whether or not to hire an internal marketing team or partner with an agency. On one side you’ll hear, “I don’t want to pay the agency fees, let’s start our own internal ...

The Rochester housing market has remained strong for sellers throughout COVID-19, but the pandemic has changed what buyers are looking for in a residence. The six-county region remains a sellers’ market, with the region seeing 87 percent fewer homes for ...

Life as we knew it changed in 2020, so it’s no surprise tax legislation has continued to evolve for the 2020 tax season as well — and genuinely for the better, for many. While the enhancements may not be as ...

I couldn’t help but smile when the slide popped up on my laptop screen during the annual Rochester Community Baseball shareholders’ Zoom meeting last month. The graphic depicted a face mask. Across it, were written the words: “I’m getting tired ...

Responding swiftly to the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020, Congress signed into law the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, which included approximately $14.25 billion in Higher Education Emergency Relief Funds (HEERF). Those funds were specifically designed to ...

The pandemic hasn’t been kind to educational institutions such as community colleges that were suddenly challenged to keep their doors open but change the way they’ve been operating forever. Unlimited challenges The myriad challenges kept changing with little time for ...

Last year at this time in this space, I started my column with this sentence: “Innovation is top of mind for business leaders today.” A year later, while innovation is still on our minds, a lot of other issues we ...

Even as Rochester-area higher education institutions have offered more online classes for almost a year during the COVID-19 pandemic, local educators say that they are still learning the best pedagogy for online instruction. “There are centuries and centuries of face-to-face ...

“Socially responsible investing” has become a big business in the investment world. As it has grown in popularity with investors and become more available through an increasing number of funds, the terms we use to refer to this investment approach ...

Fewer international students have been enrolling at colleges and universities across the country and those in the field locally say issues ranging from the COVID-19 pandemic to federal immigration policies have played a role in that decline. Paul Keller, director ...

Sometimes, regulatory compliance and an organization’s obligation to the law aren’t enough to drive change. A prime example is the Healthcare Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), which came out in the early 2000s. There weren’t any HIPAA police to ...

The general consensus is that New York will legalize adult use of marijuana in 2021. Indeed, shortly after the new year, a marijuana legalization bill was introduced in both houses of the New York state Legislature, and a few weeks ...

“I received a call from someone looking for a reference for a recently departed employee. I’m ducking the caller because I don’t know what to do about this situation. The problem is that my former employee has seriously exaggerated his ...

Biometric information is all around us. It enables us to tag friends and family in photos on social media, unlock our phones, pay for groceries and track our workouts. The technology is already beginning to take hold in the workplace ...