Backlash felt from new smoking regs 
By Todd Etshman
POSTED: May 3, 2012
Tags: backlash, New York State, smoking regulations
The New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation announced a new policy prohibiting smoking in certain state park areas last month. For the most part, the new smoking regulation applies to swimming areas, playgrounds, shelters, cabins, pavilions and concession facilities, but includes broader areas in some state park locations and battlefields. The [...]
Schumer announces $500k for health network
By Daily Record Staff
POSTED: May 1, 2012
Tags: funding, health network, Sen. Chuck Schumer
U.S. Sen. Charles E. Schumer has announced a $498,500 grant for the Rochester Primary Care Network. The funding will aid local dental health centers in Mount Morris and Lyons. “This is just what the doctor, or in this case, the dentist, ordered for Livingston and Wayne County area residents,” Schumer said. At the Mount Morris [...]
Buffalo HIV program educates pharmacists
By Daily Record Staff
POSTED: April 25, 2012
Tags: HIV program, pharmacists, University at Buffalo
The University at Buffalo School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences is offering three unique HIV continuing education programs in an online format to help pharmacists all over the world keep their knowledge of HIV pharmacotherapy current. It has provided training to more than 3,800 individual pharmacists from the U.S., Japan, Zimbabwe, Puerto Rico, the Netherlands [...]
Report: Cuomo official sought to bar whistleblower
By The Associated Press
POSTED: April 23, 2012
Tags: disabled care, Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Jeffrey Monsour, official, whistleblower
ALBANY — The Cuomo administration tried to keep a whistleblower from a Senate hearing on the state’s care for the disabled, a newspaper reported Monday. The New York Times reported the whistleblower is state worker Jeffrey Monsour, an outspoken critic of the system that provides care to thousands of people. Michael Veitch, a spokesman for [...]
Zorn named president-elect of national association
By Daily Record Staff
POSTED: April 10, 2012
Tags: American Association of Legal Nurse Consultants, Elizabeth K. Zorn, Faraci Lange, president-elect
Elizabeth K. Zorn of Faraci Lange LLP has been named president-elect of the American Association of Legal Nurse Consultants. Zorn was named the 2010 AALNC Member of the Year. She serves on the board of directors and has been a member of the organization for more than 15 years. In 2006, Zorn started the LNCExchange, [...]
Nursing home equity spending law struck down
By Denise M. Champagne
POSTED: March 28, 2012
Tags: Appellate Division, equity spending law, Fourth Department, nursing home, unconstitutional
The state will not be able to require private nursing homes to obtain approval before spending more than 3 percent of their equity. A fairly recent amendment to Public Health Law that would have required such has been declared unconstitutional by the Appellate Division, Fourth Department, which Friday upheld a lower court’s ruling in favor [...]
House passes malpractice reform bill
By Kristy O'Malley
POSTED: March 23, 2012
Tags: House, malpractice reform bill, party lines
A measure that caps damages for a broad array of medical and other health-related injury cases and repeals a portion of the federal health care law passed the House last week on a vote divided largely along party lines. The measure, H.R. 5, originally dubbed the HEALTH (Help Efficient, Accessible, Low Cost, Timely Health) Act [...]
NY begins issuing ‘stillbirth certificates’
By The Associated Press
POSTED: March 21, 2012
Tags: state, stillbirth certificates
ALBANY — After years of effort by grieving parents, New York is beginning to issue “certificates of stillbirth.” The certificates had long been tied up in heated debates over the legal definitions of a fetus and a child. But opposition by abortion rights groups ended when the name of the document was changed from “certificate [...]
Locomotive Act pre-empts asbestos claims
By Dolan Media Newswires
POSTED: March 1, 2012
Tags: Asbestos Claims, Locomotive Act, railroad worker, SCOTUS
Federal law pre-empts product liability claims brought by the estate of a railroad worker who died from mesothelioma allegedly caused by exposure to asbestos in locomotives and locomotive parts, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled in Kurns v. Railroad Friction Products, No. 10-879. (Feb. 29). The decision affirms a ruling from the Third Circuit. The [...]
Health groups providing hospital transportation
By Daily Record Staff
POSTED: February 28, 2012
Tags: hospital transportation, Hurlbut Care Communities
Hurlbut Care Communities has announced a partnership between nine of its Greater Rochester nursing facilities and Medical Motor Service to provide free transportation to any facility from any of the four major hospitals in Monroe County. One goal is to make the hospital discharge process as smooth and timely as possible, including reducing the stress [...]
Local attorney headed to White House briefing
By Denise M. Champagne
POSTED: February 8, 2012
Tags: Community Leaders Briefing, John Schuppenhauer, NYSARC Inc., White House
A Canandaigua attorney is headed to the White House. John A. “Jack” Schuppenhauer, a private practitioner who is also president of NYSARC Inc., has been invited by the Obama administration to attend a special White House “Community Leaders Briefing” on Friday. “NYSARC is one of the largest not-for-profit organizations serving people with intellectual disabilities in [...]
Contentious NY Senate feuds over ‘women’s week’
By The Associated Press
POSTED: January 20, 2012
Tags: feud, state Senate, women's week
ALBANY — The often contentious New York Senate erupted Thursday over a proclamation to set an “awareness week” for women. The Democratic minority drew a proclamation that called for a “Reproductive Rights and Justice Week.” The Republican majority heavily edited that into “Women’s Health Week.” Republicans have a 32-30 majority going into this election year. The [...]
