SNOW SCENE: A statue outside Upstate Golisano Children's Hospital.

COMMUNITY HOSPITAL TESTERS: Community Hospital has been innundated with testing demands, keeping the staff extremely busy. Among those doing the testing are, from left Julie Cook, Robert McGarvey, Cory Emborski, Class of 2022.

STATE FAIR COVID TESTERS: Upstate’s covid testing sites, such as the one at the New York Fairgrounds, saw a significant increase in volume over the past several weeks. Assisting with the Fairgrounds testing operation are, from left: Marsha Peters, Tabatha White, Mary O’Connor, Michelle Hunter and Jill Place.

HOLIDAY HELPERS: Upstate Golisano Children’s Hospital’s Child Life specialists worked to ensure that hospitalized patients and their families had opportunities for gift giving and receiving gifts thanks to the generous donations from the community throughout the year.

CHRSTMAS BUREAU: Employees from departments from across the university volunteered at the Salvation Army Christmas Bureau in Syracuse. The volunteers helped families pick out toys for their children.

COLLECTING COATS: New winter coats get sorted by Upstate students for delivery to STEM Dr. King Elementary School in Syracuse. Upstate students responded to a call for winter wear from school officials, and in response, students organized a coat drive and collected more than 450 winter coats from employees and students from all across the Upstate campus.

UUP RALLY: Upstate Medical University President Mantosh Dewan, MD, welcomes UUP leaders and members to rally on the Upstate campus, urging state leaders to reinvest in SUNY hospitals, which played an integral role in responding to and maintaining the health and safety of New Yorkers throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. At the event, UUP President Fred Kowal, New York State legislators, coalition members, and health care providers called on the state to restore $87 million for essential mission funding for SUNY’s public teaching hospitals in the upcoming 2022 state budget cycle.  

'TIS THE SEASON: The entrance to Upstate Golisano Children’s Hospital is decked out in its holiday garb.