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...
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...
‘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....
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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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...
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...
CHP Lee Family Practice has added a new family nurse practitioner to its clinical team. Janell Hostetler, MSN, ARNP, FNP-BC, will see patients of all ages. She received both her bachelor's and master's degrees in nursing from Chamberlain University...
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...
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...
CHP partnered with Berkshire Waldorf School CHP partnered with Berkshire Waldorf School in early May for a food drive/distribution at their campus in Great Barrington. School board member, Dan Schaeffer, contacted CHP early during the COVID-19...
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...
