The new initiative comes as Cabrini is in the midst of a financial turnaround.

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The model is Cabrini Green, which sits near some of the city's most valuable property.

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"One of the critical issues in poverty is not money alone, " he said at a breakfast last week at Cabrini.

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This machine will be installed at Cabrini in about a month, and Poon hopes to use it to conduct his clinical trial.

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One of the Boston parishes, St Frances Cabrini in Scituate, Massachusetts, has been occupied for the past eight years by parishioners who have refused to accept its closure.

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Now, Innis and CORE are looking to help start up a small clinical trial at New York's Cabrini Medical Center to help answer some of these questions, while at the same time shoring up a still-unproven technology.

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Poon, who is also on the faculty at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, is outfitting Cabrini with the Ferrari of CT angiogram machines, a device from Siemens (nyse: SI - news - people ) that makes pictures with double or quadruple the detail of older models.

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