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...
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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...
In the News: Boston Globe Features CHP Mobile Health Unit
The Boston Globe prominently featured the outreach work of CHP Mobile Health Unit prominently in its June 12 edition, in a story covering vaccine incentives and efforts to get doses to those who need them, but have trouble getting them. With a...
Donor Spotlight: Rick Gregg
Rick Gregg’s commitment to Community Health Programs stretches back 25 years, when he became a patient of Lee Family Practice. Back then, before the independent practice merged with CHP, its doctors were caring for patients and running the...
CEO Message: There is power in numbers when we all step up.
What a year it has been! As we reconnect with family and friends, we are all humbled by how Covid-19 has changed our experience and response to serious, contagious disease, and how as a region, we truly support each other in time of need. At CHP,...
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...
In the News: ‘Berkshire vaccines go mobile’
The following article and slideshow appear in The Berkshire Eagle. By Francesca Paris Photography by Stephanie Zollshan Four minutes before the start of a pop-up vaccine clinic in a Great Barrington parking lot, Community Health Programs staff...
Op-Ed: ‘Why we can be confident in fast-tracked COVID-19 vaccines’
On the spectator sidelines of the complex 2020 horse race for a safe and effective COVID-19 vaccine, medical professionals, immunologists, researchers and medical historians are more than impressed. Never has a life-saving vaccine passed so quickly...
Grants Help Area Residents Facing Economic Challenges
A series of new grants is bulking up CHP Family Services’ coffers to help area residents facing harsh financial challenges, including troubles caused by Covid-19. Awards from Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation, the Women’s Fund of Western...
Nutrition News: Understanding Insulin
Do you understand insulin and what does it do to the body? If you don't have diabetes, insulin helps regulate blood sugar levels. After you eat, carbohydrates break down into glucose, a sugar that is the body's primary source of energy, and...
