With the state’s extension of the Open Enrollment period for health insurance sign-up until May 23, Community Health Programs’ insurance counselors remain in high gear to help with applications to the MA Health Connector program. Since the annual...
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...
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....
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...
WAMC's Medical Monday program featured CHP's Dr. Stephen Alsdorf on Feb. 1. With program host Ray Graf, Dr. Alsdorf fielded call-in questions for about an hour, on topics ranging from healthy lifestyle habits to Covid-19 vaccines, Covid recovery...
Keturah Baker, M.D., has joined the pediatric team at CHP Berkshire Pediatrics in Pittsfield. She completed her pediatric residency in 2020 at Marshfield Clinic in Wisconsin, where she was pediatric chief resident and earned distinction as Resident...
Chez Nous bistro’s Community Night, on Jan. 28-29, will support Community Health Programs with 20 percent of takeout order proceeds. Orders must be placed in advance, and can be picked up between 5:00 and 6:30 p.m. both nights. Chez Nous owners and...
Lina El-Kashef, D.D.S, has joined the dental medicine team at CHP Family Dental Center in Great Barrington. A 2019 graduate of the Texas A & M College of Dentistry, she most recently worked in private dental practices in Texas before relocating...
The volunteer founder and president of the Berkshire Baby Box program has passed off her successful new-parent outreach program to Community Health Programs, as of Jan. 1. The transition comes after distribution of more than 1,000 baby boxes to...
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...
