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Fore the Animals
Second Chance Animal
Services hosted a re-
cord-breaking 123 golf-
ers at its 10th annual
charity golf tournament
at Cold Spring Country
Club in Belchertown.
The fundraising event
raised more than
$29,000, which will
benefit programs assist-
ing the underserved at
Second Chance’s veterinary hospitals, and one lucky golfer made a hole in one to win $4,000 toward a pool or spa from Teddy Bear Pools & Spas of Chicopee. Golfers enjoyed hot dogs, snacks, and a box lunch on the course in addition to beer tastings from local breweries. The day wrapped up back at the clubhouse, where a buffet meal was served while the fundraising auction and raffles closed and prizes were awarded for the chal- lenges and top teams.
BHN Awarded Community Behavioral Health Center Designation
SPRINGFIELD — Behavioral Health Network Inc. (BHN) announced that
the organization has been awarded the contract to serve as the Community Be- havioral Health Center for the Springfield catchment area. This designation was awarded by the Massachusetts Behavioral Health Partnership, the single statewide behavioral-health vendor for the Execu- tive Office of Health and Human Services’ MassHealth program.
BHN’s Community Behavioral Health Center (CBHC) will be based in Spring- field at its Liberty Street campus, and will launch on January 1, 2023.
The CBHC model is part of the Baker- Polito administration’s Roadmap for Be- havioral Health Reform to expand access to high-quality outpatient treatment, with the goal of ensuring the right care when and where people need it. CBHCs will serve as an entry point for timely, high- quality mental-health and substance-use disorder treatment, including outpatient and adult and youth crisis intervention.
The goal of the CBHC model is to expand access, including same-day ac- cess to assessments, referrals, and crisis treatment. Other goals include evidence- based, goal-oriented, trauma-informed
care; focus on equity through culturally competent, accessible treatment; coverage throughout the Commonwealth for all ages; and community-based crisis inter- vention integrated with a full outpatient continuum of services. This model in- cludes significant new funding for CBHCs and additional funding for non-CBHC behavioral-health urgent care.
“BHN welcomes the opportunity to serve as a Community Behavioral Health Center to meet current and growing needs in the Springfield area,” said Steve Winn, president and CEO. “As the behavioral- health infrastructure continues to evolve,
BHN is pleased to partner with the Com- monwealth in this new approach to pro- viding access to services and to strengthen providers such as BHN.”
BHN’s Community Behavioral Health Center catchment area includes Agawam, Blandford, Chester, East Longmeadow, Granville, Hampden, Huntington, Indian Orchard, Longmeadow, Montgomery, Russell, Southwick, Springfield, Tolland, Westfield, West Springfield, and Wilbra- ham.
Newsweek Names Cooley Dickinson Among Best Maternity Hospitals
NORTHAMPTON — Cooley Dick- inson Hospital has been named a Best Maternity Hospital 2022 by Newsweek magazine. This award is presented by Newsweek and Statista Inc., the world- leading statistics portal and industry- ranking provider.
“Congratulations to all of our Child- birth Center, Ob/Gyn and Midwifery, and pediatric providers,” said hospital Presi- dent and CEO Dr. Lynnette Watkins. “I applaud the work of these teams to ensure our patients and families receive excep- tional, compassionate, and personalized care every day in our Childbirth Center
and medical offices. This award validates their utmost commitment to our families.”
The Newsweek/Statista list names the top 350 leading hospitals for maternity care in the U.S., which are divided into two performance categories: five-ribbon hospitals (161 institutions) and four- ribbon hospitals (189 institutions); Cooley Dickinson earned four ribbons.
Newsweek and Statista developed
a complex methodology to ensure the quality and validity of the ranking. They invited more than 10,000 medical profes- sionals to participate in the survey. Three data sources were used for the evaluation:
a nationwide online survey of hospital and healthcare professionals, medical key performance indicators on hospitals with a focus on indicators relevant to maternity care, and results from patient surveys.
Cooley Dickinson Hospital’s Childbirth Center is being renovated to update the space and add important new services, such as upgrading the newborn nursery
to provide newborns with extra care and attention.
Family-focused care requires new equipment and furnishings, includ-
ing ergonomic labor beds, comfortable partner/family beds, overhead heat lamps
to facilitate skin-to-skin contact and foster healthy attachments, wireless fetal monitors for infants, and hemo-dynamic monitors — advanced technology when needed — for the birth parent.
The goals of the renovations are to provide a ‘home birth in a hospital’ experience, with an emphasis on nurture and support, and to allow patients to
be surrounded by partners and family.
To date, $2.3 million of the $2.8 million project budget has been raised in support of the Childbirth Center. Renovations are expected to be completed in January 2023.
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