If you don't have health insurance through your job, Open Enrollment season is just for you. If you need to renew an existing plan, Open Enrollment season applies to you as well. CHP can help. To help understand your 2021 ACA insurance options,...
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...
Family practice physician Dr. Jeremy Stoepker had another appearance on WAMC's 'Medical Monday recently. He talked with host Ray Graf about telemedicine, access to behavioral health care, isolation during the pandemic, vaccination issues and more...
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...
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,...
Friends, Pandemic fatigue is upon us. Winter is coming and COVID-19 levels are rising in many areas. Many of us are hurting financially and emotionally. We are weary. But we can take care of one another, pull together, and stay the course. We can...
Housatonic Food Train: Village Food Donation Pick-up Helps Fill CHP Food Shelves On the 1st and 3rd Sunday of each month, neighbors in Housatonic village leave groceries outside their doors for pick-up by a Housatonic Food Train volunteer. Vehicles...
Insurance Enrollment Program Expansion CHP has received a grant from the Commonwealth Health Insurance Connector Authority (the “Health Connector”) for the Massachusetts Navigator Program. The grant provides $150,000 over two years, and expands...
Donor Builds a Giving Spirit in her Adopted Community Jane Braus has invested much of her life’s work in supporting and volunteering for causes that inspire her. The Planned Parenthood organization and the United Nations Association have been...
Mary Feuer was recently named CHP Employee of the Year. For 29 years, the assistant director of CHP Family Services has rarely had a day on the job that matched any other. One day, Mary is crawling under CHP’s mobile health unit to adjust the jacks...
For his weekly talk program on WSBS radio, State Rep. Smitty Pignatelli invited Octavio Hernandez of CHP to talk about the current Open Enrollment period for health insurance. LISTEN Massachusetts residents have until Jan. 23, 2021 to renew their...
You can have a COVID-safe mammogram. If you are overdue for yours, now is the time to make your appointment. In the early months of COVID-19, mammography numbers declined dramatically in the U.S. as hospitals and health care facilities suspended...
