HCN News & Notes

SPRINGFIELD — Oct. 17 was Disability Mentoring Day, a national effort coordinated by the American Assoc. of People with Disabilities

SPRINGFIELD — The second annual class of Healthcare Heroes will be honored at the Starting Gate at GreatHorse in Hampden

SPRINGFIELD — Pathlight, a Valley leader in residential and community services for people with intellectual disabilities or autism, has been

CHICOPEE — Elms College promoted Brother Michael Duffy, conventual Franciscan friar, to the position of associate dean of the School

HOLYOKE — River Valley Counseling Center’s third annual golf tournament, held at the East Mountain Country Club in Westfield, raised more

SPRINGFIELD — The second annual class of Healthcare Heroes will be honored at the Starting Gate at GreatHorse in Hampden

PITTSFIELD — Berkshire Health Systems announced the appointment of Dr. Nisar Ahmad, a board-certified and fellowship-trained hematologist oncologist, to the

HOLYOKE — Soto Home Care, a local and minority-owned business, will host an open house at its headquarters at 225

CHICOPEE — Elms College announced that class of 2018 graduates from its School of Nursing achieved a 100{06cf2b9696b159f874511d23dbc893eb1ac83014175ed30550cfff22781411e5} pass rate

SPRINGFIELD — The second annual class of Healthcare Heroes will be honored at the Starting Gate at GreatHorse in Hampden

NORTHAMPTON — The Rev. Beverly Herbert has joined Cancer Connection as executive director. “Cancer Connection has not only impacted the

AMHERST — The College of Engineering at UMass Amherst has established a new department of Biomedical Engineering, which will offer

LONGMEADOW — JGS Lifecare invites the public to Vino & Vision on Thursday, Nov. 1 from 6 to 8 p.m.

SPRINGFIELD — The second annual class of Healthcare Heroes will be honored at the Starting Gate at GreatHorse in Hampden

HOLYOKE — The Western Mass Employment Collaborative (WMEC), which partners with employers and various agencies to help individuals with disabilities

HOLYOKE — U.S. Rep. Richard Neal and Massachusetts Secretary of Education James Peyser will be the featured speakers at a

SPRINGFIELD — GAIN, which stands for Growth and Investment Network, is a leadership course at MHA that seeks to eliminate

GREENFIELD — In the midst of the opioid crisis, and in a world in which many other diseases can be

CHICOPEE — Joe Phillips, president of Phillips Insurance Agency Inc., recently delivered a $5,000 check to John Freedman, president of

WILBRAHAM — The 2018 annual LIVESTRONG at the YMCA Dinner will take place on Thursday, Nov. 8 at the Country

CHICOPEE — Harmony House of Western Massachusetts, a home for the terminally ill, will sponsor a showing of the film

SPRINGFIELD — Ben Manzi knows what it’s like to be in the hospital — he was diagnosed with leukemia at

WORCESTER —  Debra Baumgartner, an evening nursing supervisor, is the 2018 recipient of AdCare Hospital’s Excellence in Patient Care Award,

WESTFIELD — On Wednesday, Nov. 7, Armbrook Village will host a “Memories in the Making” art training program from 9

HOLYOKE — Holyoke Medical Center will host a free adult flu vaccination clinic on Saturday, Oct. 20 from 9 to

SPRINGFIELD — The Springfield Technical Community College dental hygiene program and the Valley District Dental Society will co-host the second

SPRINGFIELD — Six Flags New England recently held a diaper drive to support the children and families served by Square

SPRINGFIELD — Hair salons are helping to make a difference in the fight against bullying, one haircut at a time,

WARE — Baystate Mary Lane will sponsor a Babysitters Academy on Saturday, Oct. 20 to ready area youth for fall and

SPRINGFIELD — The second annual class of Healthcare Heroes will be honored at the Starting Gate at GreatHorse in Hampden

CHICOPEE — Harmony House, a home for the terminally ill, will hold its third annual Wine & Beer Tasting fund-raising

WHATELY — The term ‘self-care’ is everywhere these days. Equally as prevalent are statistics about the risks of too much

EAST LONGMEADOW — East Village Place, a Watermark Retirement Community, has been honored as one of the “50 Best Workplaces

WEST SPRINGFIELD — Rays of Hope, part of the Baystate Health Foundation, has made a grant to the Cancer House

LENOX — Kimball Farms Life Care will host author Joan Ditzion, co-author of Women Growing Older – Our Bodies Ourselves

EASTHAMPTON — Girls on the Run of Western Massachusetts will host a FUNdraiser at Mill 180 Park in Easthampton this Saturday,

SPRINGFIELD — The second annual class of Healthcare Heroes will be honored at the Starting Gate at GreatHorse in Hampden

NORTHAMPTON — Beacon Hospice will present a program on having conversations about terminal illness at Christopher Heights of Northampton on

WARE — Many people are on gluten-free diets either due to celiac disease, gluten intolerance, or just because they think