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OK when it was built in the ’90s, but if we had to rebuild it, we wouldn’t build it the same way. So, what would it look like? Do we want to replace it exactly the same, or do we need to make some changes? This is an opportunity. You can always use more space than what you had.”
AIC leaders are seeking engagement from stu- dents and faculty about what the building should look like for the future, she said, but stressed that the long- term planning process has only begun.
“Our focus right now is on the interim piece for the nursing lab and the occupational therapy lab; that has to come first because we want to get our students back on campus as soon as we can — hopefully for spring. We need more space for OT than what we have right now. We’re making do right now, but we need more.
“And then, with nursing, we don’t want them to have to go downtown to do their simulation and their nursing-practice skills,” she added. “And that is a big- ger need in the spring for students. There are a lot more students that have to go through the lab in the spring. It’s important to us that they’re back home.” This unusual year in AIC’s health sciences pro- grams comes at a time when the medical world is still experiencing staffing shortages in many fields, par-
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ticularly nursing, Rousseau said, but colleges nation- wide have weathered a dip in enrollments in those programs.
“But enrollment across colleges in general is down for all professions, so I think it’s a symptom of the times,” she added. “A lot of people are worried about college debt, and you can go to work right away and still make an OK living wage because unemployment has been so low. There’s also the fact that we’re at that cliff where the birth rate has dropped off, so we’ve just got less people coming out of high school.”
And while nursing opportunities are still soaring — the profession has seen many older entrants who are changing careers to take advantage — there’s also lin- gering burnout from the pandemic, she added.
“You heard a lot of negativity around anything in healthcare. So I think that’s impacted healthcare. But it’s starting to rebound again — because then people heard about how much travel nurses make.”
Grit and Gratitude
Benitez recently expressed gratitude for the out- pouring of support from the community following the fire. “I want to acknowledge the remarkable resilience and unity displayed by our faculty, staff, and students.
ters. We have doctors that are dedicated to specific diseases to ensure that patients get that same level of high-level service that they would get at a large, aca- demic cancer center. That’s another thing that we’ve really worked on to ensure that our patients get every- thing that they need in this location.”
Bottom Line
At the end of the day, Murtha said, while the build-
“The bad actors go in, look around, see if there’s anything worthwhile, then map out a strategy. And that, to me, is scary.”
ation to avoiding phishing attacks, comes down to training, Hogan noted. And sometimes, even that’s not enough.
“We can talk until we’re blue in the face, but that doesn’t mean that somebody working at that company is going to follow those procedures properly,” he said, recalling a recent incident when a remote worker for a client used his own laptop to log into the company portal from a remote site, got a suspicious pop-up, and clicked on it, allowing a cyber attacker to navigate the company’s system.
“That’s a big issue. You know the environment that
It is this collective effort from our community that gives me confidence that we will overcome this adver- sity together.”
Rousseau agreed. “We wanted to reassure our stu- dents that we’re still open for business. We’re going to figure it out. And we’re trying to listen to them when there are issues.
“There are some things we can’t control, you know,” she added. “They don’t really want to be in class in a different building and not having their usual space. And the nursing faculty are farther across campus. The biggest struggle is that we’ve lost a large parking lot, so we’ve got some growing pains around figuring that out, making sure it’s OK before we start having snowbanks to deal with, too.”
But all those issues pale in comparion to the main one: ensuring that life continues at AIC, and so do the college careers of its nursing, PT, and OT students.
“We’ve tried to be thoughtful, to make sure this had the least amount of impact on students,” Rous- seau said. “We’ve tried to reassure students that AIC is still here, and that we’re an equal partner in their success.” BW
ing might be impressive, it’s really about the people. “We want to make sure we’re holistically manag-
ing every patient that walks through the door, and their family members, because there’s a lot of burden on the caregivers, too. So we really do take a holistic approach when we meet each of them and ensure that we’re supporting them at every step of the way.”
Roose agreed, noting that “we are confident that these improvements will ease the cancer journey for many individuals in the greater Enfield community.” BW
the client has is pretty darn secure, but when you’re having people from the outside log in from their own equipment that is not secure, you’re really running the risk of a breach.”
And many times, Savas said, companies don’t even know they’ve been breached. “The bad actors go in, look around, see if there’s anything worthwhile, then map out a strategy. And that, to me, is scary.”
On the plus side, he believes the message is get- ting across, and companies are buttoning up with proper training.
“More education is happening within organiza- tions. Attempts are being made, but it all comes down to that individual user being educated, heeding those warnings, and being smart about the things they can control,” Savas explained.
“Confidentiality of the password, not opening attachments, not clicking those links. Those are the three elements that open up an intrusion,” he added. “A lot of it is preventable. The majority is prevent- able.” BW
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“Unfortunately, as people get older, we are seeing more and more cancers, and we’re also seeing a lot more cancers earlier on,” she said, partly due to more ambitious early screening recommendations (see related story on page 29).
“Even with our GI and our lung-cancer patients, we are seeing some of those a lot earlier now than we have historically. So I think it’s really important that ensure that we provide some specialized care. This is not a generalist model, like some smaller cancer cen-
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entire dossier of who you are on Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, whatever, once that dossier is out there, that’s what criminals leverage,” he told BusinessWest. “That’s what’s going to convince your grandmother that you need help, because it really sounds like you.”
Or, convince you that your CEO wants you to click a dangerous email link.
“The hackers look at people that can approve wire transfers, ACH batches, you name it,” Hogan said. “They’re looking at owners, they’re looking at CFOs, they’re looking at controllers. We call that ‘whaling’ or ‘spear phishing,’ where they actually target a certain individual. And they’re very sophisticated. They come up with real information.”
Reed agreed. “If they’re going to impersonate the president or the CEO, the only way they’re able to leverage that person, with that crafty email, is if they spend months on social media learning about that person, gathering information to formulate the email. That’s what gets employees to click — because we all want to do what the CEO wants us to do.”
Much of this behavior, from smart password cre-
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