CHP News

CHP Names Director of Behavioral Health

Community Health Programs (CHP) has named Mary A. Fierro, PhD, LICSW, as director of behavioral health for the countywide health care network. She divides her time between administrative duties and client appointments. Fierro has most recently...

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Health Insurance Enrollment Staff Expands at CHP

Health Insurance Enrollment Staff Expands at CHP

‘Pre-enrollment’ service through Oct. 31, 2020,  helps consumers get prepared for health insurance Open Enrollment period  Community Health Programs has received a state grant to expand its insurance enrollment team to assist more area residents....

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Now More Than Ever: Get Your Flu Shot

By Christopher Sprowl, MD, and Jacqueline Jones, MD With COVID-19 infections on the rise in many states, and with winter coming, we all need to roll up our sleeves for a flu shot. COVID-19 and the flu are both respiratory infections, with similar...

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FNP Rita Willey Joins CHP Lee Family Practice

Family Nurse Practitioner Rita Willey has joined the clinical care team at CHP Lee Family Practice. Willey has practiced since 2012 at Fairview Medical in Great Barrington. She previously worked at Northern Berkshire Family Medicine; earlier, as a...

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Mary Feuer Named CHP Employee of the Year 

For 29 years, the assistant director of CHP Family Services has rarely had one day on the job that matched any other. One day, Mary Feuer is crawling under CHP’s mobile health van to adjust the jacks securing the van wheelchair lift. Another day...

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Commentary: Community Health Centers Lead in Healing

By Lia Spiliotes In recent months our lives have been consumed by the COVID-19 pandemic, which has stressed our nation's health care system to the brink. The tragic police-involved deaths of Black Americans have demanded a broad reckoning about...

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Group Medical Visits

CHP Group Medical Visits CHP clinicians recently shifted the group medical visit model virtually.  Clinicians and participants agree. It may be different, but online health care is a benefit, especially to those with transportation issues or...

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Letter from Lia: Humbled and Heartened

We have been humbled and heartened. Friends, In recent months, we have been humbled and heartened by COVID-19: humbled by the power of a pandemic to up-end our personal and professional lives. Yet we are heartened by the outpouring of community...

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Donor Spotlight Carolann Strickling

Donor Spotlight: Carolann Strickling --Organization Ink - A Culture of Caring Once each month, Carolann Strickling heads to the BJ’s store and loads up on food and other items for clients of CHP Family Services. For the past two years, her business...

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