Author: HCN Staff

NORTHAMPTON — Elvira A. Loncto, BSN, MSN, nurse manager of the inpatient acute psychiatric unit at the Northampton VA Medical

Chalk one up for the pharmacies.   After a year in which pharmacy chains threatened to leave the Medicaid program

The looming crisis in nursing workforce is not news. For the past three years there has been a steady litany

SPRINGFIELD — Mercy Medical Center’s hospitalist program, also known as the Mercy Inpatient Medicine Service (MIMS), will mark its 10th

PITTSFIELD — Berkshire Medical Center (BMC) recently announced the appointment of Renu Agarwal, M.D., F.C.C.P., a specialist in Pulmonary and

SPRINGFIELD — The annual Children’s Miracle Network (CMN) Telethon, staged May 31 and June 1, received a record $610,058 in

Health care professionals have been busy this spring sending a message to Beacon Hill that any budget cuts are going

The Jobs and Growth Reconciliation Tax Act of 2003 was signed into law by President Bush on May 28, 2003.

SPRINGFIELD — Health New England (HNE) announced recently that it has been awarded ‘excellent’ accreditation for its commercial HMO and

As the Commonwealth of Mass-achusetts faces a severe budget deficit, the state has been utilizing all available additional means to

BOSTON — A coalition of business, biotech, and health groups have been working together over the past year to raise

LONGMEADOW — Bay Path College and Ruth’s House, the assisted living residence of Jewish Geriatric Services, recently joined together to

WALTHAM — The Board of Trustees at Waltham Hospital voted late last month to close the 117-year-old facility, the latest

PITTSFIELD — The Berkshire Health Systems Department of Pathology Clinical Laboratories has been recognized by Advance magazine, a national publication

PITTSFIELD — Berkshire Medical Center has named Charles L. Abbott, M.D., the Gerald L. Haidak Memorial Resident of the Year. 

SPRINGFIELD — The Ultrasound Practice Council of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine (AIUM) announced that Baystate Ob/Gyn Group

NORTHAMPTON — The Youth Leadership Academy (YLA) of Cooley Dickinson Hospital received an award recently for community leadership at the

WARE — Country Bank for Savings was recently honored at the Mary Lane Hospital (MLH) Development Council Appreciation Luncheon for

When most people in Western Mass. think of pharmacy chains, they think of CVS, Walgreens, or Brooks. Those are the

The numbers are sobering.It is estimated that 8 million American women live with heart disease — 10{06cf2b9696b159f874511d23dbc893eb1ac83014175ed30550cfff22781411e5} of those in

Felicia Bycenski says she believes state legislators are getting the message about the Commonwealth’s health care system and its deteriorating

The respected National Academy of Sciences declared last November that “the health care delivery system is incapable of meeting the

NORTHAMPTON — Northampton Wellness Associates, an established group of medical practitioners offering integrative care for allergy, chronic illness, and pain