Category Archives: Healthcare

Saratoga Hospital now provides pulmonology care in Queensbury through a partnership with Hudson Headwaters Health Network.

The collaboration makes it easier for patients with lung and breathing conditions to receive much-needed specialty care, hospital officials said.

Two Saratoga Hospital pulmonologists—Dr. Hung Dinh Nguyen, director of pulmonology and sleep medicine at Saratoga Hospital, and Dr. Numan Rashid—started seeing patients at Saratoga Hospital Medical Group – Pulmonology at Queensbury earlier this spring.

By Bill Murray and Gretta Keene

Relationships lie at the heart of a business. As psychotherapists, we have observed that effective communication promotes healthy relationships. And healthy relationships will improve the outcome, whatever challenges your business is currently facing.

We teach our clients this important and often overlooked principle of effective communication: Everyone is in their own movie.

We all tend to assume that others are experiencing life in the same way we are. In fact, that’s why we’re often puzzled—or outraged—by other people’s words and actions. Their behaviors don’t make sense in our movie, so we label them wrong or bad or stupid or worse.

The board of directors of the Adirondack Balloon Festival has announced the cancelation   of this year’s event due to restrictions involving the COVID-19 pandemic.

The board “is disappointed” to lose the popular festival that was slated for Sept. 17- 20, it said in a new release.

“The most important part in planning in an event of this magnitude is safety. Safety is not only for our balloon pilots, but also includes our spectators, law enforcement, public works, fire and rescue staff, vendors, volunteers, musical acts, and our landowners in the region,” said Mark Donahue, board president.

Adirondack Health Institute was awarded a five-year grant by the state Department of Health Bureau of Tobacco Control to support the reduction and prevention of tobacco use in Warren, Washington, and Saratoga counties.
Advancing Tobacco-Free Communities (ATFC) will engage and educate community leaders and members, leverage resources, and mobilize organizations to advance local tobacco control efforts.

Saratoga Hospital recently invested about $2 million in robot-assisted surgical technology to give patients increased access to the most advanced minimally invasive surgeries.
Funds were used to purchase the latest-generation surgical robot—the da Vinci Xi—as a second robotic system at the hospital, as well as to upgrade the hospital’s existing robotic system to the newest technology.

by Christine Graf
Saratoga Springs healthcare technology company Davin Workforce Solutions is preparing for the nationwide launch of their newly-developed software.
The software was designed to help healthcare organizations and nursing schools manage and streamline the credentialing of their clinical staff and students. It allows customers to securely store documents on its cloud-based servers.

By Susan E. Campbell
Hemp and its plant oil extract, cannabidiol, or CBD, are becoming popular for people to invest in. One local business, Saratoga CBD Co., has located in Saratoga Springs.
The owner is Ella DiPietro, once a stay-at-home mom with experience in sales and degrees in sports management and nutrition.