Author: HCN Staff

NORTHAMPTON — Cooley Dickinson Hospital (CDH) received the Mission: Lifeline Silver Referring Quality Achievement Award for implementing specific quality-improvement measures

WESTFIELD — Baystate Noble Hospital is among a select group of hospitals and transplant centers nationwide recognized by the U.S.

EASTHAMPTON — Brian Lepine recently purchased Fitness Fusion after working at the gym for a year. Because he had worked

WALTHAM — Led by the American Medical Assoc., (AMA), with participation from the Mass. Medical Society (MMS), the nation’s physicians

WESTFIELD — Baystate Noble Hospital recently accepted the 2014 Financial Improvement Performance award at the 2015 MedAssets Healthcare Business Summit.

PITTSFIELD, CHICOPEE — Berkshire Community College (BCC) and Elms College in Chicopee have signed a memorandum of understanding allowing qualified

PALMER — For many area youth, the long, sunny days of summer are the perfect time to get on their

GREENFIELD — Baystate Franklin Medical Center will hold a cardiac-risk cholesterol screening on Wednesday, Aug. 12 from 8:30 to 9:30

WORCESTER — Fallon Health, a not-for-profit healthcare-services organization, announced it is strengthening its commitment to the people it serves in

HOLYOKE — The Dowd Insurance Agencies announced it will host a series of Baystate Blood Donor Program blood drives at

HOLYOKE — Holyoke Medical Center (HMC) has announced the appointment of John Kovalchik as manager of the hospital’s Center for

SPRINGFIELD — Susan Canning and representatives of KEVS Foundation presented a check yesterday to Nancy Bazanchuk, Disability Resources Program director

Opioid abuse is a serious public health problem that has reached crisis levels across the United States, with 44 people

HOLYOKE — Holyoke Medical Center has appointed Amy Pierno as the program director of the hospital’s new Wound Care Center,

AMHERST — Cell biologists led by Thomas Maresca at the UMass Amherst, with collaborators elsewhere, report an advance in understanding

PITTSFIELD — Berkshire Health Systems announced the appointment of Vikas Veeranna, MD, a board-certified and fellowship-trained cardiologist to the medical

GREENFIELD — Anne Corrinet, CNM, MS, a nurse midwife at Baystate Medical Practices — Pioneer Women’ Health, was recently inducted

PALMER — Healing after a loss can be a difficult journey. Beginning in September, Baystate Wing VNA and Hospice will

EAST LONGMEADOW — Wingate at East Longmeadow, a skilled nursing and rehabilitation center, today announced its selection as a 2015

Steven J. Stack, M.D., president of the American Medical Association, sounded the alarm recently on proposed mergers within the health

WESTFIELD — Baystate Noble Hospital recently accepted the 2014 Financial Improvement Performance award at the 2015 MedAssets Healthcare Business Summit.

LEE — Porchlight VNA/Home Care has been given top honors with a five-star rating by the Centers for Medicare and

SPRINGFIELD — Springfield College has named Robert Accorsi G’80 as its faculty athletic representative to the National Collegiate Athletic Association

SPRINGFIELD — Organizers of the 2015 Western Mass. Business Expo, presented by Comcast Business, have extended the deadline for submitting