Farm to 'Able': CHP Nutrition Club provides access to local people with an eye toward pregnant, new moms and people with diabetes Berkshire Eagle, Sept. 1, 2021, by Francesca Paris Read online or below "At CHP in Great Barrington, qualifying...
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CHP Hosts ‘All Vaccine’ Clinic 8/28 at Great Barrington Health Center
Community Health Programs hosts an “all vaccine” clinic on Saturday, Aug. 28, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. at the Great Barrington Health Center, 444 Stockbridge Road. This clinic will offer Covid-19 vaccines for anyone, free of charge. For existing CHP patients...

Nutritionist Joins CHP at Lee, Great Barrington Practices
Community Health Programs has named Annie Schwartz, MS, RDN, LDN, to its nutrition team. She is seeing clients at CHP Lee Family Practice and Great Barrington Health Center. She has a particular interest in working with people seeking...

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...
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...

Patient Appreciation: Emerging from Covid-19 with a CHP Tag Team
The isolation of Covid-19 was hard on Isabelle Conlon. An engineering student at Northeastern University in Boston, she headed home in the spring as the pandemic set in, to live with her parents in Lenox. She was safe at home with family, but...

CHP On the Road: The Essence of Community Health
CHP has been a rolling health care operation since 1975. We haven’t run out of gas yet. By Kathleen Floyd, FNP If our community had been faced with a Covid-19 crisis in the 1970s, local community health leaders would have been the first to...
Employee of the Month: Amanda Gaudette, Lead Medical Assistant at CHP Pittsfield Neighborhood Health Center
Community Health Programs has named Amanda Gaudette, Lead Medical Assistant at CHP Pittsfield Neighborhood Health Center, as its July 2021 employee of the month. When it comes to dedication to her job, there is no one like Amanda. Her supervisor...
CHP Names Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner to Berkshire Pediatrics
CHP Berkshire Pediatrics has named a psychiatric nurse practitioner to the Pittsfield practice, reflecting an expansion of CHP’s behavioral health services for children. Kimberly Loring, PMHNP-BC, has worked most recently as a psychiatric nurse...
Employee of the Year: Marina Barahona, Practice Manager in Great Barrington
Community Health Programs has named Marina Barahona, practice manager at CHP Great Barrington Health Center, as its 2021 employee of the year. Marina joined CHP in 2014 as a receptionist. In 2019 she was named practice manager, and now oversees...

Psychotherapist Joins CHP Lee Family Practice
Rachel Duvall, LICSW, has been named to Community Health Programs’ behavioral health team. She will be based at CHP Lee Family Practice. Most recently employed as a psychotherapist/social worker with Counseling Center in the Berkshires in...

Dr. Yaman Kana Named CHP Associate Dental Director
Dr. Yaman Kana has been named associate dental director at Community Health Programs. Kana will continue to practice dentistry as he assists with oversight of CHP’s dental practices in Pittsfield, Great Barrington and North Adams. He earned his...