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Senior living and care facilities in Rochester and across the country faced staffing shortage challenges even before COVID-19 arrived, in large part because geriatrics and senior care isn’t a field many choose to enter. Those challenges increased during the pandemic, when the safety of both residents and staff were at risk. The problem isn’t likely ...

The New York State Association of Counties, with the New York State County Executives’ Association, has published an account of the pandemic and how local, state and federal agencies handled themselves throughout. The book, titled “Our Darkest Hours: New York ...

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It’s no secret that the pandemic has caused disruption to the economic climate, dramatically shifting how business is conducted. On top of existing priorities like day-to-day operations, staffing and management, business owners also have the added layer of navigating COVID-19 related loan benefits and forgiveness programs. With new and ever-changing ...

Small businesses owners are reporting a more positive outlook as the region emerges from the COVID-19 pandemic, with many expecting revenues to increase this year over last. Ted Janicki, Bank of America’s small business banking manager for Upstate New York, ...

Tanvi Asher admits to being somewhat naïve when her store had to temporarily close in mid-March of 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. “At first I thought we may be closed two weeks,” says Asher, designer and owner of Peppermint ...

Statistics about the aging of Americans will give anyone grey hair: 10,000 Baby Boomers turn 65 every day. By 2060, those 65 and older are projected to make up nearly one-quarter of the population. The number of people 85 years ...

When Heidi Zimmer-Meyer looks out of her office window on Chestnut Street, she can see five or six buildings under construction out her window. Zimmer-Meyer, president of the Rochester Downtown Development Corporation, says that since 2000, 5,200 people have moved ...

When the New York State Department of Health asked you to stay home, wear a mask and get vaccinated against COVID-19, you did. When businesses were asked to implement and enforce policies to prevent the spread of COVID-19 infections, they did. When businesses employees and residents were asked to isolate ...

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 ...

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While the increase in remote work will likely continue post-pandemic, downtown office space will remain, even if it takes on a different look, according to local industry experts. Chris Hill, executive committee chair of the RDDC and vice president of ...

Normalcy will return to New York when the pandemic-induced state of emergency officially ends tomorrow, some 424 days after Gov. Andrew Cuomo first implemented drastic shutdown measures in an attempt to stop the spread of COVID-19. Cuomo made the announcement ...

At one time, Angelica Perez-Delgado was a teen mom who had dropped out of high school to care for her child. Today, she runs the Ibero-American Action League Inc., a local nonprofit with more than 200 staffers that serves roughly ...

Connections between physical and mental health run deep, including men’s proclivity to avoid talking about or seeking help for both despite potentially dangerous consequences.  The cliché that men avoid seeking health care until it is an emergency is grounded in ...

Men looking to get back on track with their fitness goals after a more sedentary lifestyle over the past year-plus should take things slow and steady rather than rushing back into the exercise routines they did pre-COVID-19. Richard Alweis M.D., ...

In the nearly 10 years since Lee Rudow joined Transcat Inc., revenues have nearly doubled, earnings have nearly tripled and company stock has increased fivefold. “We just keep the pedal to the metal,” said Rudow, who joined the Ogden firm ...