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WellNow Urgent Care has expanded its telemedicine platform, WellNow Virtual Medical, so Rochester patients can access virtual, around-the-clock consultations from a provider located in New York during the COVID-19 pandemic. WellNow Urgent Care operates more than 40 locations across New ...

St. Ann’s Community, a nonprofit senior living provider with campuses in Irondequoit, Webster and LeRoy, announced Friday that the company will be distributing $400,000 in bonuses to St. Ann’s 875 employees. The bonuses are a token of the organization’s appreciation ...

Fairport-based Innovation Finance USA LLC is offering zero percent APR equipment loans for urgent care centers to help them treat COVID-19 effectively through its QuickFi mobile platform. Innovation Finance was founded in 2018 under the premise of making commercial equipment finance more ...

Five Star Bank announced on Monday that it is taking a number of steps to ease the financial impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on customers, including eliminating some fees and penalties.  “We have put several measures in place so we ...

While the coronavirus pandemic has forced many employees to work from home across the country, working remotely is a trend that companies have had to plan for with growing regularity in recent years. The evolution of technology and the ability ...

After more than 100 years as the home to Lawyers Cooperative and the legal publishing firm’s recent iteration, Thomson Reuters, the Aqueduct Building has been sold. The downtown landmark, identifiable by a 21-foot statue of Mercury that sits high atop ...

An abundance of room and event cancellations has prompted the Holiday Inn Rochester Downtown to shutter operations until May 1. General Manager Paul Kremp said in a news release that there had already been thousands of dollars in room and ...

Taxpayers in Monroe County and the city of Rochester now have an extra month to pay property taxes. County Executive Adam Bello has signed an executive order, extending the due date for the third installment of town and county real ...

Gov. Andrew Cuomo ordered all workers for “non-essential” businesses to stay home and threatened civil fines or mandatory closure to those employers who don’t comply. The edict goes in effect at 8 p.m. Sunday. He also said all public gatherings ...

Upstate New York business leaders have formed a coalition to address the COVID-19 pandemic and how it affects business. Upstate Venture Connect is an entrepreneur-led nonprofit that is building a region-wide startup community for upstate businesses. Its mission is to ...

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A growing number of local banks and other financial institutions have closed their lobbies to most in-person visits in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. Meanwhile, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo Thursday announced steps he plans to take to alleviate some financial ...

R. Scott Burdett of Flaum Management Co. Inc. was named a winner in two Power Broker Award categories by CoStar Group. CoStar’s Power Broker Awards recognize the brokers, power players and deal-makers who close the highest transaction volume in commercial ...

The ability to better serve a current Rochester client, and perhaps others in the future, prompted Shea Murtaugh to expand her media planning and buying agency to Monroe County late last month. But because Pittsburgh-based Hoffmann Murtaugh has designed a ...

Matt Kuhlenbeck came from humble beginnings. At 16, his first job was working as a fry cook at McDonalds. Throughout college he built houses and worked steel, a field he loved. Now, at 41, he oversees a $250 million endowment ...

Cornell Cooperative Extension is holding a seminar by video conference Friday morning for dairy farmers about how to manage their businesses with COVID-19 in mind.  The conference is scheduled for 10 a.m. with ZOOM video conferencing technology, and can be ...

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