Thursday and Friday appointments temporarily relocating to Pittsfield. As part of CHP’s dental expansion project, CHP Great Barrington Family Dental Center is being temporarily reconfigured, and some patients’ appointments will be impacted....
Community Health Programs CEO Lia Spiliotes, who has led CHP since 2015 in its doubling of CHP patient numbers and expansion of health and family services in the Berkshires, has announced she is stepping down from CHP. In a statement to staff and colleagues, Spiliotes said she intends to refocus on family health priorities in Boston and New York. She stated she is also turning her professional attention to broader advocacy efforts around public and economic policy related to community health. […]
Dr. Lara Setti has been selected as the Berkshire District Medical Society’s 2022 Community Clinician of the Year, an award recognizing her professionalism and contributions as a physician. Dr. Setti is a board-certified family physician with...
Family Nurse Practitioner Terrance "TC" Clarke has joined CHP Lee Family Practice. He will provide primary care for adults, and he has a special interest in caring for patients who may be struggling with substance use disorders. Clarke earned his...
Two dentists have joined Community Health Programs dental practices in Pittsfield and North Adams. Dr. Ankineedu Babu Dasari is a dentist at CHP North Adams Family Dental, where he sees patients of all ages. A graduate of Sibar Institute of Dental...
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...
There’s a special family behind Ward’s Nursery – the Ward family, of course – and they are among CHP’s treasured financial supporters in the community. Greg, Eva and Sam Ward are regulars on the CHP donor rolls because they believe in CHP’s promise...
Kashmira Madhuwala’s immigrant experience brought her from her home in Gujarat, India to a series of stops in Chicago and Northern Berkshire. Finally, in2012 she took a job in Great Barrington, at a motel owned by her uncle. Soon, she met and...
With $70,000 in grant funding in hand, Community Health Programs has plans for a new ‘food depot” to support its food security programs based on Great Barrington. But CHP’s comparatively modest 900-square-foot food distribution building is...
By Molly Rivest, DNP, FNP Read in The Berkshire Eagle Read in Commonwealth Magazine I am a former captain in the U.S. Air Force, where I worked as both a research physicist and as an advocate for sexual assault victims in the military. Today, I am...
Sherri-Lee Ryanmann has been named as Community Health Programs’ director of behavioral health. A licensed independent clinical social worker, Ms. Ryanmann earned her master’s in social work from the State University of New York/Nelson A....
With the addition of clinical space in North Adams, Community Health Programs has completed the first phase of its countywide dental expansion project, and design work is now under way for a new dental practice facility in Adams. These steps are...
