New Era of Partnership Between Yeshiva University and Montefiore Medicine
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NEW YORK, Jan. 19, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Dr. Ari Berman and Dr. Philip Ozuah signed a new agreement between Yeshiva University and Montefiore Medicine launching a joint Yeshiva University-Albert Einstein College of Medicine B.A./B.S.-M.D. program for highly qualified high school graduates ensuring their path to an excellent medical education and an impactful career in healthcare. Yeshiva University and Einstein have also created a task force to study the creation of joint academic and career-related programs in the fields of healthcare and health sciences.
How the Oldest Old Can Endure Even This
No visitors. No friends at the dining table. Neighbors dying without notice. But many older adults have proved resilient during the pandemic, a phenomenon known as “crisis competence.”
Like the rest of us, Ruth Willig, 97, found pandemic life depressing. Lately things have been improving.Credit.Judith Willig
Jan. 1, 2021
It was sometime in the spring that Ruth Willig, then 96, first compared her pandemic life to being in prison. My mother, Dorothy, was still alive then, in a building much like the assisted-living facility in Brooklyn where Ruth lives. The buildings had shut down all visitors and stopped all group activities, including meals in the dining room. Residents spent their days in their apartments, alone.
Arlyn Grussing of Bloomington plays to the camera as children speak to Santa Claus at his North Pole workshop through a Zoom call. With traditional holiday events being canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic, alternatives have emerged in their place this holiday season. (Sun Current staff photo by Mike Hanks)
Santa Claus is coming to town, even during a pandemic.
Visits with Santa at shopping centers, community gatherings and holiday events have been hard to come by this year, but much like the rest of us, the jolly one has adapted to the limitations of 2020. Santa now meets with children through the most popular communication tool of the year: Zoom.