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In its first 125 years, Volunteers of America Upstate New York has helped more than 1 million people through poverty and homelessness, reentry and children’s services and annually serves 6,000 people in Upstate New York. Founded in New York City ...

New York state will make nearly $1.1 billion in federal funding available for child care providers to help stabilize the industry and enable more parents to return to the workplace full time. The funding, available through the American Rescue Plan ...

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When he arrived in Rochester in December of 1995, hired by WXXI Public Broadcasting Council to run its radio and television operations, Norm Silverstein assumed there would be a very finite timeline to his stay. A New Jersey native who ...

Caring for cardiac patients has changed over the years, with patients now taking more of an active role in their health, according to Jonathan Rodriguez, M.D., a cardiologist with Finger Lakes Health. The traditional paternalistic model of medicine, where the ...

Rochester neuroscience company Cognivue Inc. has begun a nationwide clinical study to assess post-COVID-19 Syndrome. COG-COVID19 is an open-label, prospective, two-armed comparison clinical study to assess the impact of COVID-19 on cognitive function. Researchers from the University of Southern California, ...

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The Finger Lakes Performing Provider System (FLPPS) has been awarded a $1 million grant to support regional community-based efforts to increase COVID-19 vaccinations in underserved communities. The funding was made available by the American Rescue Plan and is being distributed ...

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Himabindu Vidula, M.D., is seeing first-hand the positive impact that patient-friendly tools can have on those with heart disease. Vidula, medical director of Heart Transplantation for UR Medicine Cardiac Care, has been involved with a few studies of late that ...

Optimism skyrocketed in June among midsized business leaders polled for JPMorgan Chase’s 2021 Business Leaders Outlook Pulse survey. The annual report, released this month, shows that most of the nearly 1,400 executives surveyed said they see “unprecedented economic opportunity and ...

JK Executive Strategies LLC has launched a legal services practice to help corporations, as well as law firms, secure legal talent. “Legal professionals play an integral role in the operations of nearly every industry, and therefore it’s of critical importance ...

Xerox Holdings Corp. shares were up roughly 5 percent on Tuesday following an earnings report that beat Wall Street estimates. Shares of company stock (NYSE: XRX) were trading $24.75 this afternoon, up from today’s opening price of $23.54. For the ...

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During mergers and acquisitions, the traditional way buyers are protected from broken warranties and representations from sellers about the transaction has been having a portion of the purchase price put in escrow, says Lori Green, partner at Nixon Peabody and ...

As companies prepare policies for their post-pandemic workplace, allowing employees to maintain work-from-home arrangements can have major ramifications.

A college degree in creative writing is an unlikely pathway to a career in healthcare administration, but for John Sheehan it was a key factor that put him on the road to success. Sheehan, who officially takes over on Aug. 1 ...

Local banks are turning more to robotic process automation to increase productivity and efficiency.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Thursday that fully vaccinated U.S. travelers could be allowed to cross the Canadian border as early as mid-August. On July 15, the prime minister’s office released a summary of Trudeau’s 33rd call with Canadian premiers regarding ...