Author: HCN Staff

SPRINGFIELD — Six Flags New England recently held a diaper drive to support the children and families served by Square

SPRINGFIELD — Hair salons are helping to make a difference in the fight against bullying, one haircut at a time,

WARE — Baystate Mary Lane will sponsor a Babysitters Academy on Saturday, Oct. 20 to ready area youth for fall and

SPRINGFIELD — The second annual class of Healthcare Heroes will be honored at the Starting Gate at GreatHorse in Hampden

CHICOPEE — Harmony House, a home for the terminally ill, will hold its third annual Wine & Beer Tasting fund-raising

WHATELY — The term ‘self-care’ is everywhere these days. Equally as prevalent are statistics about the risks of too much

EAST LONGMEADOW — East Village Place, a Watermark Retirement Community, has been honored as one of the “50 Best Workplaces

WEST SPRINGFIELD — Rays of Hope, part of the Baystate Health Foundation, has made a grant to the Cancer House

LENOX — Kimball Farms Life Care will host author Joan Ditzion, co-author of Women Growing Older – Our Bodies Ourselves

EASTHAMPTON — Girls on the Run of Western Massachusetts will host a FUNdraiser at Mill 180 Park in Easthampton this Saturday,

SPRINGFIELD — The second annual class of Healthcare Heroes will be honored at the Starting Gate at GreatHorse in Hampden

NORTHAMPTON — Beacon Hospice will present a program on having conversations about terminal illness at Christopher Heights of Northampton on

WARE — Many people are on gluten-free diets either due to celiac disease, gluten intolerance, or just because they think

CHICOPEE — The student-athlete advisory committee at Elms College is partnering with Special Olympics Young Athletes to offer budding athletes

SPRINGFIELD — The Springfield College School of Social Work will hold an open house for prospective students on Thursday, Oct. 11

AMHERST — Two scientists at UMass Amherst are building a new class of environmentally friendly polymer materials (or polymer-based fluids)

HOLYOKE — Girl Scouts of Central and Western Massachusetts (GSCWM) announced the recipients of the second annual ToGetHerThere Awards. According

SPRINGFIELD — Baystate Medical Center recently announced it is the only hospital in Western Mass. to offer axillary reverse mapping (ARM)

SPRINGFIELD — The Public Health Institute of Western Massachusetts and the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation will present

SPRINGFIELD — The second annual class of Healthcare Heroes will be honored at the Starting Gate at GreatHorse in Hampden

GREENFIELD — Shirley Hamill has been appointed nurse manager of the Birthplace at Baystate Franklin Medical Center. Hamill received her

HOLYOKE — America’s heroin crisis has been called the worst drug epidemic in U.S history, with more than 27,000 prescription

WESTFIELD — The College of Graduate and Continuing Education at Westfield State University will host an information session for the RN

WARE — Dr. Kimberly Marakovits of Baystate Health’s Division of General Obstetrics & Gynecology has joined the medical staff of

GREAT BARRINGTON — Community Health Programs (CHP) has named Elizabeth “Betsy” Strickler as chief communications officer for the CHP county-wide

LEEDS — Linda Manor Extended Care Facility is partnering with Smith Vocational School to offer full-tuition scholarships for nursing-assistant students.