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NORTHAMPTON — Cooley Dickinson Hospital’s Auxiliary recently received the Champion for Children Award at the fifth annual Child Abuse Awareness

Call it uncharted territory — both for Massachusetts law and the state’s business community.   On May 17, six months

In the summer between her two years of nursing school at Greenfield Community College, Russian native Olga Saykina wanted an

SPRINGFIELD — There is still time to obtain walk papers for the sixth annual Step Out for Hospice walkathon to

When the Mass. Medical Society (MMS) offered its strong support of legislation to curb the cost of medical liability insurance,

If your facility is experiencing a chronic shortage of nursing staff, as most in Western Mass. are, you may be

WALTHAM — Physicians with the Mass. Medical Society (MMS) are applauding the action of the Legislature’s Joint Committee on Insurance,

Most people don’t think that men develop osteoporosis. This disease, in which bone becomes thin and fragile and can fracture

Non-physician providers (NPPs) are being utilized more than ever in doctors’ practices. Medicare payments for services provided by NPPs have

Programs that benefit families also benefit the community at large.   And in 2002, the Health Programs Department at Health

Even though the majority of women age 45 and older have at least two risk factors for osteoporosis, only 15{06cf2b9696b159f874511d23dbc893eb1ac83014175ed30550cfff22781411e5}

WEST SPRINGFIELD — The American Cancer Society will hold a training on June 6 for Western Mass. beauty professionals interested

HOLYOKE — This promises to be one very special evening.   For the first time in decades, Holyoke Medical Center

As The Healthcare News goes to press this month, state lawmakers are launching a set of recommendations to directly counter

It’s fair to say that, as a rule, physicians enjoy practicing medicine and would rather live without its administrative side,

NORTHAMPTON — Cooley Dickinson Hospital (CDH) was one of several hospitals featured in a segment by Boston’s WCVB-TV Channel 5

Beginning in July, state employees enrolled in Tufts Health Plan will have to pay significantly higher co-payments if they seek

To hear Michael Penna tell it, the computerization of the modern doctor’s office has been a slow revolution.   But

HOLYOKE — Holyoke Medical Center will present a special CPR recertification for health care providers on April 24 from 8

NORTHAMPTON — Five employees of Cooley Dickinson Hospital’s Women’s Imaging Center recently earned certification from the International Society for Clinical

BOSTON — The population is aging. More people are using the health care system. More health care professionals are needed.

HOLYOKE — Dr. Daniel Levy of Northampton has been elected chief of medicine at Holyoke Medical Center.   Levy began

HOLYOKE — On a recent Tuesday afternoon, radiology student Lisa Bihler pumped cream into her coffee at a countertop condiments

WALTHAM — The Mass. Medical Society (MMS) today released its Physician Practice Environment Index for 2003, and the analysis shows

HOLYOKE — “Sometimes, healing a wound includes touching a heart.”   These are the words of Charlotte A. Langlois, registered