Author: HCN Staff

Dr. Wilson Mertens stressed repeatedly that the Center for Cancer Care that will soon take shape on Baystate Medical Center’s

HOLYOKE — The Holyoke Hospital Auxiliary Association has kicked off the ‘Yours for Life Campaign’ for the hospital’s planned $11

SPRINGFIELD — Dr. Richard C. Friedberg, the former associate director of the Blood Bank and associate head of Transfusion Medicine

SPRINGFIELD — Evan M. Benjamin, MD, FACP has been named vice president of Healthcare Quality for Baystate Health System. In

As resources are spread increasingly thin in many areas of health care, particularly elder care, computer technology is making it

The nursing crunch may not be making the headlines it did when it first surfaced, but the problem persists in

Criminal activity comes in many forms, but the long-term physical and sexual abuse of children, who often suffer for years

When Mercy Medical Center administrators started looking to renovate the three-decade-old emergency room, they knew the areas they would have

HOLYOKE — Jane Lyons, M.D., recently began working as an OB/GYN at Holyoke Hospital. She is in the process of

HOLYOKE — Kevin Neill of Belchertown has been named manager of the Work Connection at Holyoke Hospital, the facility’s full-service

Vinnie Spanilo wanted to make it clear that an organ transplant is not a cure. “It’s a trade-off.” Spanilo, who

It’s a common story, with a twist. Statistics show that the population of Massachusetts — and the United States, for

It’s six years in the making, 1,500 pages long, and coming to a health care provider near you. It’s a

HOLYOKE — Donna A. Arnold, R.N., of Belchertown has been named nurse manager of the South 1/Telemetry unit at Holyoke

SPRINGFIELD — Pioneer Valley Nephrology announced that Krishnan Babu, M.D., has joined Jonathan Slater, M.D., and Balaji Padmanabhan, M.D., at

HOLYOKE — Dawn Chartier, R.N., of Westfield, has been appointed nurse manager of Holyoke Hospital’s Intensive and Coronary Care units.

PITTSFIELD — Berkshire Medical Center has announced the appointment of Nancy Perry-Duncan, RN, MBA to the position director of Nursing

HOLYOKE — Melissa Perry of Northampton has been named nurse manager of the Center for Behavioral Health’s Inpatient Unit at

Mercy Medical Center has partnered with a group of pathologists in an intriguing new venture that blends large doses of

Alzheimer’s disease affects between 15 and 20 million people worldwide, and that number is only expected to rise along with

It might be a weekend automobile crash, a midday industrial accident, or a gunshot ringing out in the night —

The medications known as ‘clot-busting’ drugs used in the treatment of heart-attack victims, while they have proven to be effective

Karen Pettengill says the most frustrating aspect of occupational therapy is getting patients to change the way they do their