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GREAT BARRINGTON — Fairview Hospital has achieved the Healthgrades 2014 Outstanding Patient Experience Award. Fairview was identified as providing outstanding

NORTHAMPTON — Fazzi Healthcare Solutions, a Northampton-based healthcare research and consulting firm, has announced the findings of its “2013-14 State

WALTHAM — A study recently released by the American Medical Assoc. (AMA) shows that the economic impact of physicians to

CHICOPEE — With its Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) program set to launch this fall, Elms College is only the

HOLYOKE — Holyoke Medical Center has once again received the Get with the Guidelines Stroke Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award

SPRINGFIELD — River Valley Counseling Center (RVCC) has announced a restructuring of office locations in order to better serve the

Twelve years ago, the Institute of Medicine, the independent health arm of the National Academy of Sciences, issued a groundbreaking

If you are a primary-care provider and are not familiar with the term ‘patient-centered medical home,’ or PCMH, now is

Sarcopenia, a loss of muscle mass often associated with weakness, is a commonly recognized cause of disability in older people.

Cassano Joins BHS as Director of Occupational, Environmental Medicine PITTSFIELD — Berkshire Health Systems has announced the appointment of Dr. Victoria Cassano

HOLYOKE — Holyoke Health Center recently rolled out a new website, with the goal of being more user-friendly with more

SPRINGFIELD — Five Greater Springfield nursing homes received five-star ratings in a recently published report by U.S. News & World

BOSTON — The Massachusetts healthcare reform law of 2006 set in motion a number of important changes to the healthcare

SPRINGFIELD — The need for medical and community interpreters is rapidly increasing, and so is the demand for trained professionals

NORTHAMPTON — To address findings from a recent health assessment, Cooley Dickinson Hospital will host its first annual Mental Health

WARE — Baystate Mary Lane Hospital will sponsor a Babysitters Academy on May 18 to prepare area young people for

WORCESTER — Fallon Health, a not-for-profit healthcare-services organization, recently celebrated a historic milestone in the growth of community-based care for

GREENFIELD — The Oncology Department at Baystate Franklin Medical Center and dermatologist Dr. Joel Gordon, will co-sponsor a free skin-cancer

On July 3, 1981, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued what may be the most stunning report

Last August, I called attention to a survey of nearly 3,500 physicians that found that 60{06cf2b9696b159f874511d23dbc893eb1ac83014175ed30550cfff22781411e5} of physicians would not

Despite the high number of veterans with disabilities separating from service, the military is still one of the largest employers

The National Institutes of Health, 10 biopharmaceutical companies, and several nonprofit organizations recently launched a partnership to transform the current

It is pretty easy to get people to agree that child abuse, whether physical or sexual, is bad for children.

Giganto Steps Down as President of Baystate Regional Markets SPRINGFIELD — Chuck Gijanto has resigned as president of Regional Markets for Baystate Health.

Making a Difference  The Melha Shriners who actively support and promote Shriners children’s hospitals across the country, vwere among five

The Internal Revenue Service in the Western Mass. area has added quite a few new auditors for their Small and