Author: HCN Staff

SPRINGFIELD — Do you know a champion for the next generation of female leaders? The Girl Scouts of Central and

SPRINGFIELD — Work Opportunity Center Inc. announced it is a recipient of a $5,000 grant donation from the Westfield Bank

TURNERS FALLS — The United Arc 2018 Annual Gala & Auction will be held on Saturday, Sept. 15 at Hadley

HOLYOKE — More than a dozen city of Holyoke employees and their spouses prepared healthy meals Tuesday at the HCC MGM

WESTFIELD — Baystate Noble Hospital received the American Heart Assoc./American Stroke Assoc. Get with the Guidelines – Stroke Silver Plus Quality

SPRINGFIELD — The Human Service Forum will hold its first annual Human Services Job Fair on Wednesday, Aug. 22 from

EASTHAMPTON — Legacy Counsellors, P.C. is a local law firm that specializes in estate planning, elder law, and business-succession planning

HOLYOKE — Holyoke Medical Center (HMC) has received five national and state awards for excellence and quality of stroke care

SPRINGFIELD — Springfield College recently hosted its 25th annual Athletic Training Student Workshop on campus. The four-day workshop, co-directed by Springfield

PALMER — Having trouble hearing can make it hard to understand and follow a doctor’s advice, respond to warnings, and

AGAWAM — More than 120,000 people in Massachusetts are living with Alzheimer’s disease or other forms of dementia. Armbrook Village’s

HOLYOKE — River Valley Counseling Center (RVCC) named Anna Dyrkacz to be its director of Finance. She was appointed to the

BOSTON — The Massachusetts Department of Public Health (DPH) launched its first statewide public-information campaign to educate parents of middle-

CHICOPEE — The Education Division at Elms College has postponed its conference titled “Trauma-sensitive Schools: Meeting the Needs of Traumatized Students

NORTHAMPTON — Cooley Dickinson Chief Medical Officer Dr. Estevan Garcia announced the appointment of Dr. David Boardman, a fellow of

LONGMEADOW — Bay Path University announced the launch of its MSEd/EdS program in Reading & Literacy Instruction, now enrolling for

SPRINGFIELD — The deadline to nominate an individual or organization for the second annual Healthcare Heroes awards has been extended one

SPRINGFIELD — Dr. Allison Wasserman and Dr. Sandy Liu have joined the staff of New England Pathology Associates and Mercy

SPRINGFIELD — MHA, a Springfield-based nonprofit provider of residential and support services for people impacted by mental illness, developmental disabilities,

STOCKBRIDGE — The Erikson Institute of the Austen Riggs Center will present “Leadership and Institutional Integrity,” a one-day conference on Saturday,

LONGMEADOW — Bay Path University announced the launch of two new programs, including its second doctoral program, now enrolling. Bay

AMHERST — Kelly Richardson, an assistant professor of Communication Disorders at UMass Amherst’s School of Public Health and Health Sciences,

LONGMEADOW — Glenmeadow will hold its first monthly Memory Café for people with Alzheimer’s disease or another dementia and their

SPRINGFIELD — The deadline to nominate an individual or organization for the second annual Healthcare Heroes awards is today, July 9,

SPRINGFIELD — Kimberley Lee, a recognized leader in the nonprofit sector of the Western Mass. region, has joined the staff

SPRINGFIELD — Stavros will host a personal care attendant (PCA) and PCA employer job fair on Tuesday, July 17 at

SPRINGFIELD — Shriners Hospitals for Children – Springfield will celebrate the opening of its new, 20-bed Inpatient Rehabilitation Unit with

AMHERST — Movement neuroscientist Julia Choi at UMass Amherst recently received a five-year, $616,057 grant from the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) faculty early

SPRINGFIELD — Dr. Laxmitejaswi Mittapalli has joined the staff of Mercy Medical Center and RiverBend Medical Group as an internal-medicine

EAST BROOKFIELD — Old dogs have something to wag about this summer, as the Grey Muzzle Organization announced the recipients

SPRINGFIELD — O&P Labs owner Jim Haas announced that orthotist Jim Reed from Orthotics West in West Springfield has begun

WARE — The Baystate Regional Cancer Program at Baystate Mary Lane Outpatient Center and the American Cancer Society will sponsor “Look Good …

LENOX — Kimball Farms Life Care continues its series of art exhibits featuring works by local artists with “Cross-Border Beauty,”

NORTHAMPTON — A new, monthly support group for individuals living with metastatic breast cancer is being offered at Cancer Connection.

HOLYOKE — Every year, the Massachusetts Commission on the Status of Women asks every state legislator to nominate someone from

BOSTON — A new, statewide study of marijuana use among Massachusetts residents found that about 21{06cf2b9696b159f874511d23dbc893eb1ac83014175ed30550cfff22781411e5} of adults had used

SPRINGFIELD — The Center for Human Development (CHD) has named Ben Craft its vice president of Community Engagement. In the

BOSTON —  The state House of Representatives passed legislation that seeks to ensure residents across the Commonwealth have access to

PALMER — Baystate Wing Hospital announced that Dr. Shadi Zaghloul has joined their medical staff and will serve as medical director for

WILBRAHAM — The Gaudreau Group, a regional employee benefits firm, and MMS Analytics, doing business as MyMedicalShopper, a leading provider