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Doctors, nurses and other medical professionals are indispensable — the pandemic has reinforced that. Nurses make up the largest percentage of the U.S. health care workforce: There are more than 2.3 million registered nurses according to census data.
It’s not surprising that there are holidays honoring nurses. National Nurses Week begins each year on May 6 (National Nurses Day) and ends on May 12 (Florence Nightingale’s birthday).
We’ve been asking readers to nominate and vote on many health related categories for several years. Best hospital has the longest tenure, dating back to 2007; best dentist and best orthodontist are the newest, starting as a single category in 2020 before splitting a year later. Here are the 2022 winners of the health care categories in the annual Best of the Capital Region poll.
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Best hospital
Exterior of St. Peter’s Hospital on Friday, March 5, 2021, in Albany, N.Y.
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Winner: St. Peter’s Hospital, 315 S. Manning Blvd., Albany
Second place: Albany Medical Center, 43 New Scotland Ave., Albany
Third place: Bellevue Woman’s Center, 2210 Troy-Schenectady Road, Niskayuna
Runner-up: Saratoga Hospital, 211 Church St., Saratoga Springs
Runner-up: Ellis Hospital, 1101 Nott St., Schenectady
Best senior living facility
Exterior of the Shaker Place Rehabilitation & Nursing Center on Tuesday, April 21, 2020, in Colonie.
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Winner: Shaker Place, 100 Heritage Lane, Albany
Second place: Kingsway Community, 323 Kings Road, Schenectady
Third place: Van Rensselaer Manor, 85 Bloomingrove Drive, Troy
Runner-up: Shaker Pointe, 1 Bell Tower Drive, Watervliet
Runner-up: Coburg Village, 1 Coburg Village Way, Rexford
Best dentist
Gary Hahn
Winner: Where Smiles Grow, 9 Century Hill Drive, Latham, and 250 Delaware Ave., Suite 201, Delmar
Second place: The Smile Lodge, 713 Pierce Road, Clifton Park
Third place: Zappia & Fryer General Dentistry, 1 Pine West Plaza, Suite 106, Albany
Runner-up: The Smile Zone, 576 Sand Creek Road, Albany
Runner-up: Guilderland Family Dentistry, 3734 Carman Road, Guilderland
Best orthodontist
Dr. Sergey Berenshteyn, left, explains to his apprentice Joey Hayak how to put braces on the teeth of a patient at Adirondack Orthodontics on Wednesday, Aug. 8, 2018, in Latham.
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Winner: Adirondack Orthodontics, multiple locations
Second place: Albany Braces, 1004 Western Ave., Albany
Third place: Dr. Timothy Esmay, Esmay Orthodontics, 877 Western Ave., Albany
Runner-up: Dr. Brendan Cooney, Cooney Orthodontics, 500 Federal St., Troy
Runner-up: Dr. Gary Puccio, Puccio Orthodontics, 255 Schuurman Road, Castleton-On-Hudson
Best of the Capital Region 2022
Best of the Capital Region 2022
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