Upstate Health magazine is a community outreach service of Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, NY. Upstate is an academic medical center with four colleges – Medicine, Nursing, Health Professions and Graduate Studies – and an extensive clinical health care system that includes Upstate University Hospital’s downtown and community campuses and the Upstate Golisano Children’s Hospital (pictured). Part of the State University of New York, Upstate is Onondaga County’s largest employer.
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U P S TAT E H E A LT H
summer 2013
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