Upstate shocker: Hospital boss who lied to get $400K job won’t have to repay taxpayers anything Syracuse.com 2/17/2021 Douglass Dowty, syracuse.com
Syracuse, NY A former Upstate Medical University executive who lied on his resume to make $400,000 salary on the taxpayer dime won’t have to repay anything, the hospital relayed to a judge Wednesday.
Sergio Garcia escaped with a misdemeanor after pleading guilty to puffing up his resume by, among other things, claiming he had been a high-ranking official in the U.S. State Department.
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WATERTOWN â In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, hospitals and health care centers were learning about the virus in real time.
While there was confusion and fear, there was also the underlying notion that society needed to move forward and work together to make it through the largest public health crisis in 100 years.
North country health care providers, while they dealt with a smaller number of patients compared with other hospitals in the state early on in the pandemic, many have been met with challenges along the way. The challenges span a wide spectrum, including financial strain, the canceling of elective surgeries, the lack of personal protective equipment and furloughs. But local health centers have adapted and grown in ways that will carry them into the future of health care in the region.