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STS-134 Memorial Day Message #memorialday #nasa #spacestation – Video

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STS-134 Memorial Day Message #memorialday #nasa #spacestation STS-134 Memorial Day Message #memorialday #nasa #spacestation STS-134 Pilot Greg Johnson and Mission Specialist Andrew Feustel send a Memorial Day message fr… Continue reading →

After Sandy: NYC Beaches Serve as Model for Post-Disaster Rebuilding

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After Hurricane Sandy ravaged New York City’s coastlines, city officials knew that any effort to rebuild the damaged beaches had to make sustainability a top priority. Rather than simply replacing what was destroyed, they had to make sure new structures on the shores were built to withstand the next Sandy-like storm Continue reading →

City beaches are back!

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Seven months after being pummeled by Hurricane Sandy, Coney Island and the citys seven other beaches are back in business. Mayor Bloomberg officially opened the beaches yesterday, in time for the Memorial Day weekend, and unveiled the new Steeplechase Plaza, just west of Stillwell Avenue. Continue reading →

The Best Beaches of 2013 Announced

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Frequented by the rich and famous, Main Beach in East Hampton on Long Island, N.Y., has been named the top beach of 2013. Though battered by Super Storm Sandy and other winter storms, the beach has largely recovered, said Stephen Leatherman, also know as “Dr. Beach,” director of Florida International University’s Laboratory for Coastal Research in Miami Continue reading →

Foundation Medicine partners with Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

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By Chris Reidy, Globe Staff Foundation Medicine Inc., a Cambridge biotechnology company using genomics data and DNA sequencing to help doctors pinpoint treatments for cancer patients, is partnering with Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center to co-develop a molecular diagnostic product designed to match patients with hematologic cancers with the best treatments. Hematologic cancers include leukemia, lymphoma, and myeloma, the two entities noted in a press release. Michael J Continue reading →

One World Trade Center (The Freedom Tower) and the 9/11 Memorial Site – Video

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One World Trade Center (The Freedom Tower) and the 9/11 Memorial Site One World Trade Center (1 WTC) is the main building of the new World Trade Center complex in Lower Manhattan, New York City, New York. The 104-story supertal.. Continue reading →

State beaches, parks on Long Island to reopen Memorial Day weekend

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NEW YORK (MYFOXNY) – All of Long Island’s state parks and beaches, whichsuffered significant damagein Superstorm Sandy,are expected to reopen in time for the Memorial Day weekend, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced. Continue reading →

Freedom Weekend Aloft gets makeover

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A festival that draws tens of thousands of people to Heritage Park in Simpsonville each Memorial Day weekend is undergoing a makeover that promises to bring new attractions and a shortened name in its 32nd year, organizers said. The first two words of Freedom Weekend Aloft have been dropped, and the festival now is known as Aloft Continue reading →

'Lean' approach to health care

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In their quest for efficiency, some Central Massachusetts hospitals are following in the steps of an industry that could not seem more different: manufacturing. Medical administrators are running Lean or Six Sigma initiatives in Worcester and other locations, using management techniques long associated with automakers to ferret out waste and maybe save money Continue reading →

Parks and Beaches group sets priorities for budget cycle

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By Pat Sherman La Jolla Parks and Beaches, Inc. (LJP&B) voted on its top priorities for capital improvement projects, in anticipation of an invitation by the mayors office for community groups to provide input on the capital improvement budget for fiscal year 2014 this time, well before the city begins working on it in December. After some discussion and a vote by active LJP&B members in attendance last month, the group decided that its top four priorities (and estimated costs) are: 1) Aesthetic improvements to the sidewalk on Coast Boulevard near Childrens Pool ($250,000) 2) A Coast Walk parking feasibility study ($50,000) 3) Improvements to Scripps Park ($1,863,000) 4) A parking plan for South Coast Boulevard ($299,942) Continue reading →

UMass Memorial Health Care Teams Up with Informatica and MedCPU on Innovative Solution for Reducing Preventable …

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WORCESTER, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– UMass Memorial Healthcare (UMMHC), the largest health care system in Central New England, is implementing innovative technology to reduce the frequency of preventable readmissions as per the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Readmissions Reduction Program. The new UMMHC Readmissions Reduction Initiative will cover the entire inpatient and ambulatory environments of UMMHC, including all its affiliated physicians, their outpatient offices and their patients. Continue reading →

Memorial works on efficiency to improve care, avoid health-reform penalties

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A 59-cent sterilizing sponge and an additional minute to draw each patients blood have helped Memorial Medical Center save at least $2 million in health-care costs over the past two years. More important, the modification Memorial adopted for testing patients blood for dangerous infections such as sepsis has meant quicker and more appropriate medical responses to those infections. Continue reading →

UMass Memorial Medical Center to do away with another 140 full-time jobs

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By Robert Weisman, Globe Staff UMass Memorial Health Care is stepping up its restructuring efforts, telling employees Tuesday that it plans to pare another 140 full-time jobs at its flagship hospital in Worcester. In a letter to the systems 13,200 employees, chief executive John G. OBrien blamed declines in health insurance payments and the number of patients it treats. Continue reading →