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Samaritan employees protest vaccine mandate for health care workers

Samaritan implements minimum wage increase, currently seeking to fill over 400 vacancies

WATERTOWN — Following a significant increase in recent vacancies, Samaritan Health is actively recruiting and has announced it is adopting a $15 minimum wage — a 19% increase from the

Help wanted: Local employers say enhanced unemployment benefits make it tough to fill jobs

WATERTOWN — Unemployment benefits in the state seem like an unspoken elephant in the room that business owners say has contributed heavily to a dip in employees. “Help Wanted” signs have been peppering the fronts of businesses across the north country in recent weeks, which is the result of not only the summer season approaching. While economic experts point to a number of factors — issues with childcare, for example — as the driver of it all, they believe some business owners in the north country, that unemployed people are riding out their enhanced benefits by finding loopholes during the pandemic. Congress had approved an additional $600 a week from March 2020 through the end of the year. Regular benefits are capped with an additional $300 a week until September. It’s enough to limit incentive and undercut motivation, according to these business owners.

Northern Radiology Imaging in Watertown to sell assets to Samaritan, office will close

WATERTOWN — Samaritan Medical Center has announced its acquisition of the assets of Northern Radiology Imaging, a local radiology practice with a long-standing presence in the community. Hospital officials, in an announcement Friday morning, said plans to purchase the assets by the medical center were delayed by the Pandemic. There was no purchase price disclosed. Northern Radiology will close its office March 5, the hospital stated, and the radiology and imaging center will be moved to the Samaritan Health & Wellness Plaza, which is in the former Kmart building that’s been extensively renovated recently. That building is directly behind the current building off Washington Street.

Moderna vaccines reach tri-county area, expanding rollout