Baystate Health-led group addresses inequities amid pandemic MassLive.com 2/19/2021
One of the many ways of improving health care outcomes is to address health inequities.
According to the American Medical Association, “marginalized and minoritized patients have and will suffer disproportionately during the COVID-19 crisis due to the inequities in society perpetuated by systemic practices.”
As the large first surge of the coronavirus in Greater Springfield was just beginning to ease in April and the inequitable impact on vulnerable groups had become clear, a work group gathered virtually to address the impact.
Comprised of leaders, experts and stakeholders from Baystate Health, Caring Health Center and the Public Health Institute of Western Massachusetts, the work group quickly determined their key activities would be:
Baystate Health-led group addresses inequities amid pandemic
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1/20/2021 -Easthampton- Volunteer Mary Bianca (L), gives some food items to Jada Springfield of Northampton at the Easthampton Community Center s food pantry at their Clark Street headquarters. (Don Treeger / The Republican)
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Every week since the COVID-19 pandemic changed the world back in March, Robin Bialecki has seen more new faces in need of food to get through until their next paycheck.
The center provides weekly groceries for any family in need. If there are children in the home they get enough food for breakfast, lunch and a snack all week.
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Helen Davis Blake and S. Prestley Blake at the Springfield College President s Gala at MGM Springfield on Oct. 26, 2019. (Ed Cohen photo)
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The drive that made S. Prestley Blake and the Friendly’s chain he founded with his brother, Curtis, in the depths of the Great Depression a success didn’t waiver, even in Blake’s final weeks.
“Pres was always in command, right up until the last minute,” his wife of 38 years, Helen, said Friday. “The most dreaded words every morning were ‘I have an idea’.”