Creating Opportunities for Early Childhood Development
Jeanne Bassis has built a career helping children and adults experience play, an essential ingredient for a healthy life. Each week, Jeanne brings lightly structured and free play to two CHP playgroups.
Greeting and Meeting People Like You
As summer turns to fall and the air grows crisp, I’m grateful each day to be settling into my new home here in the Berkshires. My early weeks at CHP have been spent meeting our team, community leaders, and members and learning about all that makes CHP special.
Reaching More People; Providing Great Care
With a newly improved Lee Family Practice site and dental practice locations set to open in 2024, CHP is making strides to fill gaps in our region’s health care.
A Prescription for Good Health
CHP Partners with local farms to distribute nutritious food. If nutrition is the doorway to better health, access to healthy food is the first step inside. Our Family Services and Nutrition teams are at the forefront of food security and healthy nutrition. Through...
Birthing with Barrington OB/GYN: One Mom’s Story
As a longtime patient of CHP Lee Family Practice, Sarah K. of Otis was confident in choosing Barrington OB/GYN (BOG) for her obstetric care when she became pregnant with her first baby. In particular, she sought out Dr. Jill Samale. With Dr. Samale and the BOG team,...
Accelerating Mobile Health at CHP Berkshires
This year, we are doubling down on mobile health, a staple of CHP care since the 1970s. Back then, a local doctor and some nurses drove around our rural back roads looking for signs of young children who might need medical care—the origins of CHP. Today, our...
One Door Project: New Help for Victims of Domestic and Sexual Violence
For a victim of sexual or domestic violence, confiding in a medical professional might feel safer than calling a domestic abuse hotline. CHP Berkshires and the Elizabeth Freeman Center have partnered to create the One Door Project to care for victims who need both...
Annual Appeal 2022: How Your Gifts Grew
Reasons to Give to CHP Berkshires CHP Berkshires relies on you—our friends and neighbors—to support many programs not reimbursed by insurance or other revenue, particularly our Family Services programs. Family Services supports parents, children, and families through...
Making a Difference: Care Coordinator Kornelia Krzyzanowska
At CHP, sometimes, our work isn’t done when the exam is over. Some patients need extra support to achieve better health and wellness. As Care Coordinator at CHP Great Barrington Health Center, Kornelia Krzyzanowska, RN, BSN, is focused on making sure children in...
Donor Spotlight: Matt and Missy Scarafoni
When Matt and Missy Scarafoni consider their community giving, they ask, “What organizations make a wide impact on our Berkshire community? Who is leveling the playing field between those who have more and those who have less?” CHP is on their “A list.” “A lot of...
Mission Moment: Families Like Ours
By: Rania Markham When my kids were 18 months and three months old, our family signed up for CHP ParentChild+, a home mentoring program for families with young children soon heading to preschool or kindergarten. Each week, a family mentor came to our home to...
A Message from Interim CEO, Rick Gregg: Bringing a Unique Perspective to CHP
When I was asked in June to become the interim CEO of Community Health Programs, I believed I might bring a unique perspective to overseeing the CHP healthcare networks and family services. As a patient of Lee Family Practice for more than 25 years, I’ve benefitted...
CEO Message Spring 2022
Greetings Friends, Resilience is the capacity to recover from difficulty, the ability to stand up after being knocked down. The past two-plus years have raised hard tests of our resilience. We witnessed and participated in a pandemic crisis that has taken nearly a...
Mission Moment: Dental Health for a New Family in Town
In mid-2020, a Boston area family relocated to the Southern Berkshires, where they found a rare affordable apartment. At the time, schools were closed to in-person learning, and the family—with five children—had no local connections or support network. Then, through...
Donor Spotlight: Jack Polizzi of T.P. Saddleblanket
Years ago, the T.P. Saddleblanket shop in Great Barrington hired a young woman, an immigrant from Hong Kong, as a tailor and pattern maker. She was excellent at her job, but English was not her first language. When she needed dental care, she was unsure how to...
CEO Message: On Track at Family Services
Friends, This summer, we have some important reasons to celebrate, and to thank you for your ongoing financial support for CHP. CHP is on track for in-person services for some of our most important clientele: children and families. Our Family Services facility in...ParentChild+ Program: Strengthening Local Families
When Jackie Schultz and Jared Brunner and their kids moved to the area several years ago, they had no connections. They lived in an isolated town, cut off from neighbors and other parents. The couple worked opposite job shifts to care for the children, including an...
Mission Moment: Helping a Family Stay Insured
Since relocating from North Carolina to Dalton 10 years ago, Mecca Brophy and her family have faced some challenges with job security and health insurance. Through a food bank referral, Mecca found her way to CHP, where health insurance experts assist people in...
Donor Spotlight: Adrian Van Zon is Stocking Up on Generosity
Adrian Van Zon remembers when Community Health Programs was in its early years as Children’s Health Programs, in the 1970s and 80s. He was an early supporter of CHP’s work caring for children, and he was inspired by its visionary early founders. “It was such a useful...
Our 2021 Plan: Hope and Recovery
Friends, On a February day, we can cut branches from a forsythia bush, bring them indoors to a water vase, and watch them blossom into a spray of yellow and the promise of a new season. This month offers another reason for hope: the promise of a shot in the arm. It...Winter Fresh! Great Food Sources During The Colder Months.
With fall well on its way and winter fast approaching, we begin to face some new challenges as the cold weather settles in. Shorter days and lack of sunshine depletes us from natural Vitamin D intake. Staying warm becomes a daily struggle, and trying to keep ourselves...By the Numbers Fall 2020
By The Numbers: Late Summer – Early Fall 2020 Snapshot of how we are serving the community 492 COVID-19 tests 996 Flu shots 3,190 TeleHealth visits 5,839 Telephone appointments 2,453 New baby/well-child visits 1,385 Diabetes care 3,199 Hypertension...Mission Moment Fall 2020: Health Care at Adams Hometown Market
Our Community: Special Deal at Adams Hometown Market: Health Care The Adams Hometown Market has something extra to offer: health care. On Wednesdays from 1-4 p.m., the Adams Hometown Market sets aside a parking lot area for BOB, the big orange bus, staffed by CHP...