“I think that all of the new services, as well as increased community collaborations that have rallied to address this problem, have certainly helped ... If we see that downward trend sustained through the new year, we’ll feel more confident.”
Read MoreSamaritan CEO Thomas Carman said Monday Samaritan was not invited to affiliation discussions. However, in a meeting earlier that day, the affiliating hospitals’ CEOs said Samaritan administration was contacted on more than one occasion but was uninterested in discussing partnership.
Read MoreIn a Monday afternoon meeting, the hospitals’ CEOs said they intend for the partnership to provide both increased financial security into the future, and access to specialized services for patients in person and remotely via telemedicine.
Read MoreAbagail Tamblin was allegedly injected with a contaminated intravenous solution while being treated at MedReady Urgent Care on Dec. 20, 2014. This is the second time MedReady and the manufacturers of Wallcurr IV solutions have been subjects of a similar lawsuit locally.
Read MoreStephen A. Jennings, chairman of Jefferson County’s Alliance for Better Communities, announced the “early signs of success” in an email to alliance members on Friday.
Read MoreSince the vote, Ms. Lowes hasn’t had much interaction with management and hospital administration, in part because she works nights. However, she said she wasn’t surprised by the hospital’s negative response.
Read MoreAs of Oct. 1, funding for several key health programs failed to be renewed by Congress, including the Disproportionate Share of Hospital payment program, the Health Centers Program and the Child Health Insurance Plan.
Read More“Everybody dies... Expenses at the end of life are very high and don’t have to be. Our society has to go back to valuing home care at the end of life, rather than hospitalization, and having the courage to make wise decisions about the best interests of the person involved.”
Read MoreDespite the CDC’s 5-micrograms-per-deciliter threshold, no amount of lead found in blood has ever been identified as safe.
Read MoreA new program to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS and other diseases by offering free needles and needle disposal will soon open downtown — and has become a local controversy for some business owners and community members.
Read More“The people at the emergency operations center, the incident commander — we want their wheels to be grinding,” said John Simard, Installation Antiterrorism Officer, in a public statement. “They need to figure all this out.”
Read MoreLawrence W. Storie saw the color of his wife’s eyes for the first time in 17 years, went stargazing for the first time in 40 years and watched his son Jack play soccer for the first time ever — thanks to the very kind of technology he’s working to bring to all blind and visually impaired people of Northern New York.
Read MoreAccording to Mrs. Ryan-Allen, to stay in operation, the home was told to pay a $50,000 lump sum and $1,000 a day in fines. She has faced similar fines and battles with the state in the past, but said this time she chose not to fight it.
Read More“Cutting Medicaid for these people is equivalent to condemning them to death,” Ms. Seefried-Brown said.
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“(Overdoses) seem to appear in a cyclical fashion,” Anita Seefried-Brown, director of community prevention at Pivot and project director for the Alliance for Better Communities, said. “When that happens, we have to assume heroin is being adulterated with something even stronger. We have to assume fentanyl is in Jefferson County.”
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“Any cut is going to be severe, It’s a very concerning time,” Mr. Moore said. River Hospital currently provides all outpatient services at a financial loss; the strain of further loss of Medicaid funding may lead to loss of services.
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"Mrs. Gould’s movements scream one word, which describes how most people feel when talking about mental health: uneasy. She jokes that her family has always been “off the rocker.”'
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Following through on President-elect Donald J. Trump’s campaign trail promises, Republican members of Congress began efforts to demolish the Affordable Care Act on Wednesday with a private meeting with Vice President-elect Mike Pence...
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"Questions were originally raised when Insights Forensic Counseling Inc. and Lucy’s House, which shared an office space in 120 Washington St. and were both run largely by Mrs. Colello-Poplaski, moved out.
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The state Department of Health said the goal of the new testing process is to “identify and eliminate” children’s exposure to lead in drinking water at school.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention maintains there is no “safe” level of lead to be in children’s blood, as even low levels have been shown to irreversibly affect IQ and behavior.
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