HCN News & Notes

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

CHICOPEE — The student-athlete advisory committee at Elms College is partnering with Special Olympics Young Athletes to offer budding athletes

SPRINGFIELD — The Springfield College School of Social Work will hold an open house for prospective students on Thursday, Oct. 11

AMHERST — Two scientists at UMass Amherst are building a new class of environmentally friendly polymer materials (or polymer-based fluids)

HOLYOKE — Girl Scouts of Central and Western Massachusetts (GSCWM) announced the recipients of the second annual ToGetHerThere Awards. According

SPRINGFIELD — Baystate Medical Center recently announced it is the only hospital in Western Mass. to offer axillary reverse mapping (ARM)

SPRINGFIELD — The Public Health Institute of Western Massachusetts and the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation will present

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

GREENFIELD — Shirley Hamill has been appointed nurse manager of the Birthplace at Baystate Franklin Medical Center. Hamill received her

HOLYOKE — America’s heroin crisis has been called the worst drug epidemic in U.S history, with more than 27,000 prescription

WESTFIELD — The College of Graduate and Continuing Education at Westfield State University will host an information session for the RN

WARE — Dr. Kimberly Marakovits of Baystate Health’s Division of General Obstetrics & Gynecology has joined the medical staff of

GREAT BARRINGTON — Community Health Programs (CHP) has named Elizabeth “Betsy” Strickler as chief communications officer for the CHP county-wide

LEEDS — Linda Manor Extended Care Facility is partnering with Smith Vocational School to offer full-tuition scholarships for nursing-assistant students.

SPRINGFIELD — September means back-to-school supplies, and that means a new set of financial challenges for families who are already

SPRINGFIELD — September is National Childhood Obesity Awareness Month, and the news isn’t great. According to the latest data from

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

HOLYOKE — The Holyoke Medical Center provider affiliate, Western Mass Physician Associates announced it is changing the name to Holyoke

WEST SPRINGFIELD — Do you have questions about Social Security or Medicare? Are you or someone you know turning 65,

SPRINGFIELD — Springfield will be home to the 24th Educare early-education school to be built in the U.S., and the

HOLYOKE — Holyoke Medical Center recently held a dedication ceremony for renovations to the inpatient Behavioral Health unit of the

LONGMEADOW — Glenmeadow Learning will offer a program on dementia and brain health on Tuesday, Oct. 16 from 10 a.m.