Author: HCN Staff

It’s fair to say that, as a rule, physicians enjoy practicing medicine and would rather live without its administrative side,

NORTHAMPTON — Cooley Dickinson Hospital (CDH) was one of several hospitals featured in a segment by Boston’s WCVB-TV Channel 5

Beginning in July, state employees enrolled in Tufts Health Plan will have to pay significantly higher co-payments if they seek

To hear Michael Penna tell it, the computerization of the modern doctor’s office has been a slow revolution.   But

HOLYOKE — Holyoke Medical Center will present a special CPR recertification for health care providers on April 24 from 8

NORTHAMPTON — Five employees of Cooley Dickinson Hospital’s Women’s Imaging Center recently earned certification from the International Society for Clinical

BOSTON — The population is aging. More people are using the health care system. More health care professionals are needed.

HOLYOKE — Dr. Daniel Levy of Northampton has been elected chief of medicine at Holyoke Medical Center.   Levy began

HOLYOKE — On a recent Tuesday afternoon, radiology student Lisa Bihler pumped cream into her coffee at a countertop condiments

WALTHAM — The Mass. Medical Society (MMS) today released its Physician Practice Environment Index for 2003, and the analysis shows

HOLYOKE — “Sometimes, healing a wound includes touching a heart.”   These are the words of Charlotte A. Langlois, registered

HOLYOKE — The Mount Tom Mental Health Center has announced that it has been awarded a contract by the Mass.

Under Massachusetts law, any competent person is authorized to establish a durable power of attorney (POA). A POA is a

The Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement and Modernization Act of 2003 contains the most extensive changes to Medicare since the program

Just when doctors thought they had heard it all, the long-awaited Phase II of the Stark Law final rule was

Donna Russell Sposito considers herself normal. “That means I eat more of the wrong kinds of food than the right

‘Coffee that’s as good as its intentions.’   That’s one of the slogans being used to promote Way Cooley Coffee,

WESTFIELD — Area hospital administrators sent a clear message to legislators earlier this month: don’t make any more cuts in

WESTFIELD — Carey Leckie, an occupational therapist at the Noble Hospital Sports and Rehabilitation Center, has earned CHT (certified hand

The Journal of the American Medical Assoc. released a report earlier this month that puts an exclamation point behind what

The Mass. Nurses Assoc. is attempting to force through the Legislature a potentially harmful and scientifically suspect piece of legislation. 

SPRINGFIELD — Mercy Medical Center will host an open house for RNs currently working in the field on Monday, April

WALTHAM — The president of the Mass. Medical Society (MMS) welcomed the official arrival of electronic prescriptions in the Commonwealth