Month: January 2018

Apartments in Potsdam for Clarkson Physical Therapy Program

Finding an apartment in Potsdam before arriving in the Clarkson University program for either Physical Therapy or Physicians Assistant program can be a challenge.   Many of the best rentals fill up during the last few months of the previous semester.

Clarkson University Physicians Assistants
Clarkson University Canton Potsdam Hospital Physicians Assistants

Adirondack Quality Apartments (315-244-4755) rents out efficiencies near Clarkson University with a per-semester lease as well as a 12-month lease for greater flexibility.

Located near Clarkson’s hill campus, and on a quiet road adjacent to Clarkson’s property, AQA units provide a large amount of study space, a safe, quiet road for recreational jogging, and fully furnished apartments that are move-in ready.

Visit aqapartments.com for our latest rental rates and pictures of all of the units.  The Clarkson hill campus is mainly used by engineering students, business students, and undergraduate students.  Potsdam apartments for physicians assistants and physical therapy students are usually located in the village, when available.  AQA apartments offer apartments in Potsdam that are 1 1/2 miles from the Clarkson Hill campus and 2 1/2 miles from the downtown Clarkson campus for Physicians Assistants students and Physical Therapy students.

SUNY Potsdam Art-O-Matic Dispensing Vending Machine

Editors Note: SUNY Potsdam is located across Main St. from the Collegiate Village Potsdam CVP and Old Main Apartment buildings in Potsdam, NY.

There is a new invention on the SUNY Potsdam campus in Carson Hall.  It is a renovated cigarette vending machine that now dispenses original works of art.  Incredible as it may sound, the inventor, T. Clark Whittington of Winson-Salem, N.C. has sold about 130 such vending machines operational.

SUNY Potsdam Art-O-Matic
SUNY Potsdam Art-o-Matic Vending Machine

Apparently, Mr. Whittington acquires old cigarette vending machines, refurbishes and repaints them, and fills them with original art work in cigarette-sized boxes.  The art dispensing machine in Carson Hall at SUNY Potsdam can hold work from up to 12 original artists at a time.

According to the Watertown Daily Times,   April K. Vasher-Dean, director of the art museum at SUNY Potsdam said, “We have some mini-sculptures, some oil paintings — I just restocked it with some journals.  That was exciting — it’s only been up since Monday.”  (January 22, 2018).

Apparently, SUNY Potsdam English Professor, Richard M. Henry and Dr. Vasher-Dean got the Art-O-Mat at the Lougheed-Kofoed Festival of the Arts.  All proceeds from the machine will go toward this festival.

Potsdam Rental Housing For Temporary Physicians As Trends Increase

The rental housing market in Potsdam is stretched because of the two universities, Clarkson and SUNY Potsdam, and because of the increasing trend in CPH – Canton Potsdam Hospital utilizing temporary physicians staffing following national trends.

Locum Tenens, temporary staffing for physicians and nurses reports that 47% of healthcare facility managers said they now are seeking locum tenens physicians.

CPH Temporary Physicians
CPH Canton Potsdam Hospital Temporary Physicians

This is up from 42% in 2014 and up from 39% in 2012. This is the highest number of healthcare facilities actively seeking locum tenens providers at any given
time that Staff Care has recorded in any of its annual surveys.

Primary care remains the specialty in highest demand as locum tenens.
43.5% of healthcare facility managers surveyed said they used locum tenens
primary care physicians in the last 12 months, up from 35% in 2014 and up from 28% in 2012.

Finding suitable temporary rental housing in Potsdam, NY is sometimes an issue because of the large number of rental units that cater to the student market.

For example, CVP, Collegiate Village Potsdam, has hundreds of one-bedroom units available, but with shared living rooms and kitchens, which assumes there will be students in the units sharing the various rooms and having their own private bedroom and bathroom facilities.

Adirondack Quality Apartments is addressing the need for professional rental and one-bedroom units in Potsdam, NY by providing efficiencies, with private small kitchenettes in each private area that consists of one large room with space for living, studying, sleeping, and a kitchenette.  There is also a large, full, private bath with a 5-foot shower and plenty of shelf space.