The Advantages of Customized Training at Crouse Community Center
About Crouse Community Center Crouse Community Center is a 120-bed rural nursing home and rehabilitation center located less than a mile from the village center of Morrisville, NY. The facility backs up to rolling farmland and looks out on the SUNY Morrisville campus. The single floor building includes six wings with a series of courtyards […]
Innovative P-TECH Partnership Paves the Way for College and Career Readiness
Students in St. Lawrence County have an exciting opportunity to participate in P-TECH, a program designed to prepare students for high potential health careers. Informed by current and projected industry trends, students take part in a rigorous, relevant and cost-free 4-6 year education sequence focused on building the knowledge and skills they need to have […]
How Community Memorial Hospital Successfully Tackles Compliance Training
About Community Memorial Hospital Community Memorial, an acute care hospital located in Hamilton, New York, serves a population of 45,000 across 27 communities. This award-winning rural facility has been nationally recognized for its performance. The esteemed healthcare system provides primary care, sophisticated orthopedic surgery, same day surgeries, and a complete roster of diagnostic testing and ancillary […]
Preparing for the MCAT
For students interested in applying to medical school, a historical moment occurred on April 17, 2015: The first version of the “new” MCAT was administered that day! The “old” version of the MCAT has been around since 1991, so this was a pretty major change. The new MCAT has 230 questions and takes about 7.5 […]
A Medical Student’s Perspective: Why I’m Studying Public Health, Too
My name is Lizzy and I am currently enrolled in the joint MD/MPH program at SUNY Upstate Medical University, which means that I plan to graduate in 2017 with a doctorate of medicine (MD) and a master of public health (MPH) degrees. Everyone knows what an MD is, but what about this public health business? […]
Upcoming SBIRT Training in Watertown, NY
Learn how to plan and implement a tailored brief intervention and education to patients with substance abuse problems in this no-cost SBIRT (Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment) Training. After completing the training, participants will be able to: Employ motivational interviewing techniques to develop rapport with the patient Implement a brief intervention that is tailored […]
CNYCC Reaches Out to Larger Health Workforce Community
The Central New York Care Collaborative (CNYCC) is the Performing Provider System (PPS) designated for Central New York under the Delivery System Reform Incentive Payment (DSRIP) program. Under DSRIP, over 200 healthcare partners across six counties will work together over the next five years to implement projects designed to reduce Emergency Department visits and unnecessary readmissions of the Medicaid population by […]
Lifelines Prevention Training
This first part of the Lifelines Trilogy educates students on the facts about suicide and students’ role in suicide prevention. It provides information on where to find suicide prevention resources in the school and community. Training materials are included for faculty and staff that provide accurate and practical information on identifying and referring students who might […]
