SARANAC LAKE – Following a rigorous, three-year application process, Adirondack Health has been awarded the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Pathway to Excellence designation. The Pathway to Excellence program recognizes a healthcare organization’s commitment to creating a ...
TICONDEROGA — Moses Ludington Hospital has become part of the University of Vermont Health Network, under the auspices of Elizabethtown Community Hospital. Moses Ludington staff, board members, network officials, state Sen. Betty Little, Assemblyman Dan Stec and local leaders celebrated ...
SARANAC LAKE — By taking care of elderly and disabled people in their homes, home health aides contribute mightily to the economy. That’s not why they do it, though. “If I can make somebody happy, that makes me happy,” said Karla Clark. She has been working as a home health ...
TICONDEROGA — Post Acute Partners, which operates under the Elderwood brand, is expanding with the addition of two Ticonderoga facilities formerly run by Inter-Lakes Health under the auspices of the Moses Ludington Hospital. Elderwood at Ticonderoga, formerly Heritage Commons, and ...
Pickering: A son, Keegan Darwin, born March 2 at 6:18 a.m., weighing 8 pounds, 15 ounces, to Nicole and Kevin Pickering of Conifer Leon: A son, Finnic Kennedy, born March 4 at 12:29 a.m., weighing 7 pounds, 15 ounces, to Lauren and Jason Leon of Lake Placid Joyner: A daughter, Ruth ...
LAKE PLACID — Mercy Care for the Adirondacks is recruiting new volunteers and has scheduled a Friendship Volunteer Training Program in Lake Placid on the mornings of May 3 and 10. The training sessions will be held from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Both mornings are required to complete the ...
Parents have been pinning me down with questions about what to say to their teen who wants a piercing or tattoo. We should no longer associate piercing and tattooing in teens with their being at an increased risk for using tobacco, alcohol, or drugs. Nowadays teenagers see body art such as ...
After new and dangerous side effects of synthetic marijuana usage were recently reported in five states, New York’s Department of Health issued an advisory to hospitals about new dangers associated with the drug. The reports were out of Illinois, Maryland, Wisconsin, Indiana and ...
QUEENSBURY — After two years of research and writing, Mary Beth Pfeiffer started a book tour last week that could also be described as a warning: The ticks are coming. “There is right now a massive army of ticks, ticks by the billions, moving around the planet,” she said last ...
SARANAC LAKE – The Adirondack Health Foundation is still accepting applications for three scholarships designated for area students interested in pursuing careers in healthcare. The $3,500 scholarships will be awarded to students who have been accepted into a course of study leading to a ...
PLATTSBURGH — A woman who worked her way up the ladder at the hospital here will take the helm both in Plattsburgh and Malone. Michelle LeBeau, a registered nurse with a Master of Science in Human Resource Management, has been named president and chief operating officer of Champlain ...
U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., sent a letter on Friday to leaders of the Department of Veterans’ Affairs demanding more details about sex crime allegations against a physician who was employed at the VA medical facility in Watertown. State police charged Dr. Jerome Cuyler, 74 , ...
SARANAC LAKE — There is a new, full-time doctor delivering babies at Adirondack Health’s Stafford New Life Center in Saranac Lake, but for many patients and staff, she’s a familiar face. Eve M. Burns, a doctor of osteopathy and fellow of the American College of Obstetricians and ...
MANCHESTER, N.H. — President Donald Trump promised Monday that the “scourge of drug addiction in America will stop,” and proposed a new course of “toughness” for drug dealers that would include the death penalty. “Some of these drug dealers will kill thousands of people during ...
ALBANY — As it does every year, the state Senate on Monday approved legislation sponsored by Sen. Betty Little that will allow out-of-state health care professionals to provide services for athletes competing in this year’s two Lake Placid Ironman triathlons. The exception, sponsored by ...
LAKE PLACID — Mercy Care for the Adirondacks, a mission sponsored by the Sisters of Mercy, will offer the Foundations Course for Faith Community Nursing / Parish Nursing on April 6, 7, 14, 21, and 28. The course is offered to registered nurses of all faiths. Mercy Care provides the ...
SARANAC LAKE — Peer counseling for addiction recovery has probably been around since the Mesopotamians discovered that poppy plants could alleviate pain in 3400 B.C. But, according to the National Institute of Health, the latest versions of that old painkiller — synthetic opioids created ...
SARANAC LAKE — A $1.2 million state grant, announced Tuesday, will let St. Joseph’s Addiction Treatment and Recovery Centers build a 10-bed drug and alcohol detox center on John Munn Road — only the second such facility in all of northern New York. “There’s a seven-bed facility in ...
NORTH CREEK — In late January, the Tri-County Nursing and Rehabilitation Center was purchased by Post Acute Partners for nearly $3 million. The price covers the purchase of the 82-bed facility in North Creek — which serves Hamilton, Warren and Essex counties — and its operating ...
The Franklin County legislature voted Thursday to hire the Napoli Shkolnik PLLC law firm to represent the county in a suit against pharmaceutical companies whom many believe caused the national opioid epidemic through aggressive marketing practices. The lawyers will argue that the ...