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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Upstate Nursing we need to hear from you!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Governor Hochul, SUNY and the State Legislature have greenlit $450M in funding for a state-of-the-art hospital annex featuring a larger,
modern Emergency Department and enhanced Burn Unit. <b>Now it’s your turn to shape what comes next, and we want to hear your ideas!</b> From patient experience to technology upgrades, no idea is too small or too bold. IMT has created an app specifically for
Upstate called WTBI (What’s the Big Idea?) that empowers every employee to share, endorse, comment on and share support for others' ideas:
<a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://wtbi-app.azurewebsites.net/Home__;!!GobTDDpD7A!PJpwwhMccmwPScSvGfbCD7qatfb-4vAir-E1iYz0I03zmvhfQvpt6GRWT8IndZOEjYqk20P9paanXv2uXUaNWMKyK29W$">WTBI Ideas</a> For more information, please click here:
<a href="https://www.upstate.edu/training/intra/epic/documents/wtbi_annex_idea_campaign_2025_10_28_1.pdf" title="https://www.upstate.edu/training/intra/epic/documents/wtbi_annex_idea_campaign_2025_10_28_1.pdf">
WTBI Annex Idea Campaign</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Please use the WTBI App to share ideas, endorse others ideas, and help influence this amazing new facility we are going to build!
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">The submission window is open from November 3<sup>rd</sup> till December 5<sup>th</sup> 2025<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">Scott Jessie DHA, MSN, MBA, RN, CNS, NEA-BC<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">Chief Nursing Officer<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">SUNY Upstate University Hospital<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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