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Patients are introduced to Schnoodles and her handler, Angela. (Courtesy of NYU Winthrop)

NYU Winthrop Hospital Institutes Pet Therapy Program

A new program by NYU Langone’s Long Island-based hospital will seek to help patients and staff with stress through the work of a schnauzer poodle, goldendoodle and other pets.
Rocco Fabbro, Contributing Writer September 5, 2019

NYU Winthrop Hospital is providing a different type of medicine to its patients: dogs.  Winthrop’s Animals Give Support, or WAGS, is a pet therapy program that was officially...