Dr. Laura Setti, a board-certified family physician with Community Health Programs in Great Barrington, has been selected as the Berkshire District Medical Society’s 2022 Community Clinician of the Year.
NORTH ADAMS â The economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic has put nearly 1 in 4 Berkshire County children at risk of hunger, but observers see more federal money for parents as a win for childrenâs nutrition.
President Joe Biden has said the $1.9 trillion COVID relief plan he is expected to sign this week would cut child poverty in half, a claim that researchers haveechoed.
Locally, there is hope that the extra money will stem the tide of rising food insecurity among children, in addition to meeting needs related to housing, heat and electricity.
âI think [the relief payments] will really help families, but itâs not a long-term fix,â said Michelle Derr, director of the Berkshire South Women, Infants and Children (WIC) program for Community Health Programs in Great Barrington.
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Dr. Stephen Alsdorf, an internal medicine family practitioner joins us today. WAMC s Ray Graf hosts.
Dr. Stephen Alsdorf is a family medicine physician at Community Health Programs in Great Barrington, Mass., where he cares primarily for adult patients. He has a special interest in sports medicine, musculo-skeletal and metabolic health, and cardiovascular issues. He is a graduate of the UMass Medical School and completed his internship and residency at Boston University.
Dr. Alsdorf is focused on how a patient’s lifestyle impacts their health, and almost always prescribes exercise and the great outdoors as treatments for better health and wellness.