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POTSDAM — After more than three years of working toward an agreement, St. Lawrence Health System and Rochester Regional Health have finalized an affiliation. The two hospital systems in 2018 signed a non-binding letter of intent to affiliate, and hospital administrators on Tuesday announced they had been granted all regulatory approvals for the alignment to be official. The multi-hospital, 20,000-employee Rochester system has the capacity to support the 2,000-employee St. Lawrence system, according to a joint news release issued Tuesday. SLHS will maintain control of its three hospitals ...

Thursday, December 10, 2020 - 6:04 am POTSDAM — Clarkson has loaned one of its Ultra-Low Temperature (ULT) freezers to Canton-Potsdam Hospital to await the first arrivals of the SARS-CoV-2 vaccines. The vaccines must be stored at the ultra-cold temperature of -70 degrees Celsius, or about -94 Fahrenheit. Clarkson’s ULT freezer comes from Biology Professor Susan Bailey’s Experimental Evolution and Bioinformatics Lab. This freezer normally holds bacteria and DNA samples from her evolution experiments. “These experiments explore how bacteria evolve in response to dif...