New partnership to bring telehealth home
By GREGORY ZELLER // A large-scale investment by Northwell Ventures will put a futuristic spin on the old-fashioned house call. The Northwell Health system on Wednesday announced a new partnership…
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Baby steps: Northwell newborns outpace nation
Anyone know a good sitter? Bucking national trends, Northwell Health is hip-deep in chubby cheeks and loaded diapers after delivering more than 40,000 bouncing babies in 2016. That projected 4…
Sanders salutes Cuomo’s $163M free-tuition plan
Middle-class families will send their kids to New York City and State public colleges tuition-free, if Gov. Andrew Cuomo gets his way. Flanked by U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-Vermont), who…
Long Island internships, new and improved
By GREGORY ZELLER // New year, new milestone for Savvy Hires, which has launched what may be the nation’s first “internship collective.” Just weeks after announcing a partnership with Adelphi…
Debrief: Steve Israel, the next generation
Following eight U.S. House of Representative terms and a narrow escape from what could be the most contentious Congress in a generation (“I got out while the getting was good”),…
Info overload? Get aggregated, not aggravated
By GREGORY ZELLER // In a world where “fake news” proliferates and those daily intelligence briefings really do drag on, there comes an artificially intelligent response. Entrepreneur Blake Cornell, a…
Northwell adds corneal crosslinking, Ned approves
By GREGORY ZELLER // The FDA has seen the light. So has Northwell Health. Now Ned Daily can, too. Daily, a Long Island-based photographer/videographer, was slowly losing his vision to…
SmartGAME: Empowerment meets smart power
By GREGORY ZELLER // From the Heartbreak to Heroism file come Joan Bucchino and Amazing Grace, the angelic inspiration behind two distinct empowerment efforts. Bucchino, who lost her 13-year-old daughter…
Still cutting its teeth, Traverse set for stellar 2017
By GREGORY ZELLER // First, healthy teeth for dogs … then a cancer cure for the world? Financially and otherwise, Traverse Biosciences enjoyed a strong 2016 – but it may…
Israel to lead LIU global institute, and write on
If you had “[Insert Distinguished Vocation Here]-in-Residence at a Long Island college” on your Steve Israel After-Congress Bingo card, fill it in. Long Island University announced Tuesday that the longtime…
In energy harvesting, the wheels never stop turning
By GREGORY ZELLER // Ramuel Maramara is pedaling an all-new energy-harvesting device, and as usual, he’s not thinking small. His “artificial jellyfish” technology, still gearing up for a major dress rehearsal…
Health system acquires busy Suffolk Surgery Center
New York State’s largest healthcare provider keeps getting larger, adding a busy surgical center to its satellite roster. Northwell Health has acquired a majority stake in the Suffolk Surgery Center,…
Dates set for Dowling College auction
Dowling’s Oakdale campus goes under the gavel in March as a bankruptcy court moves to liquidate the real estate holdings of the failed school, which crumbled under $54 million in…
Jobs tick up in November
Long Island’s unemployment rate dipped to 4.0 percent in November, down 0.1 of a percentage point from a year earlier and matching the lowest November rate since 2007, the state…
Suffolk IDA approves RPA spending
Suffolk County’s Industrial Development Agency has re-upped its consulting agreement with the NYC-based Regional Plan Association, experts at redeveloping downtowns and creating next-gen housing and transportation hubs. The IDA approved…