
NewsChannel 13 aired a piece on St. Peter’s Health Partners and Albany Law School launching a new Medical-Legal Partnership, which will connect law students to represent eligible patients and their families.
Watch the full report here.
NewsChannel 13 aired a piece on St. Peter’s Health Partners and Albany Law School launching a new Medical-Legal Partnership, which will connect law students to represent eligible patients and their families.
Watch the full report here.
St. Peter’s Health Partners, NewsChannel 13, and the Times Union held the 19th annual “13 Kids Who Care” banquet on June 1 at the New York State Museum to recognize 13 young people whose volunteer efforts make the Capital Region a better place to live. […]
The Times Union published a new story as part of its continuing coverage on the growing opioid epidemic in the Capital Region. Dr. Melissa Weimer, Chief of Behavioral Health and Addiction Medicine at St. Peter’s Hospital, was interviewed as part of the story: The newest medical approach may be at St. Peter’s Health Partners, where drug users addicted to heroin, fentanyl and other opioids can now walk into outpatient locations in Albany, Troy and Cohoes or emergency departments at Samaritan, Albany Memorial and St. Peter’s hospitals and promptly be evaluated to get buprenorphine to help them through withdrawal, or more intense detox services if needed. The program has served more than 300 people since it opened last September. “When the person feels, I am able to change in this moment, we are ready to treat them in this moment,” said Dr. Melissa Weimer, medical director of the SPHP Addiction Recovery Center. “We’re trying to make it so there’s no closed door.” To view the article, which also includes a video of Dr. Weimer discussing the […]
March is Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month. Dr. Jill Genua of Capital District Colon & Rectal Surgery Associates, appeared on WNYT to discuss risk factors for the disease and why so many younger people are being diagnosed with the illness. […]
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