Baystate Health awards $1.2M in Better Together grants to 16 nonprofits, town of Blandford
Updated Mar 09, 2021;
Posted Mar 09, 2021
Sara Kendall is vice president of clinical operations at Mental Health Association, one of the recipients of a Baystate Health Better Together grant. (Photo by Anne-Gerard Flynn, Special to The Republican)
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SPRINGFIELD Sixteen community-based nonprofits, as well as the town of Blandford, have been awarded $1.2 million in Better Together grants by Baystate Health as part of its Community Benefits Program to help urban and rural populations in communities it serves.
The money awarded over a period of up to three years is from Baystate’s Community Health Initiative funding approved by the state and originally based on determination of needs at Baystate Medical Center in 2018. The recipients selected submitted proposals in the fall to address a need in a category determined by each of Baystate’s hospitals that impacts aspects of
Holyoke Community College, American International College see future jobs in cannabis
Updated Mar 03, 2021;
Posted Feb 17, 2021
Holyoke Community College is offering a cannabis program with an eye on future job opportunities in the burgeoning field. An instructor demonstrates how to make cookie batter using cannabidiol (CBD oil) extracted from hemp during a cannabis culinary assistant training program.
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HOLYOKE Jeffrey Hayden says the clientele for Holyoke Community College’s cannabis industry training program is different than he expected.
“If you’d asked me a year or two ago, I would have probably gone with the stereotype and said we’d get young males in their 20s who think, ‘This is cool, man,’” said Hayden, the college vice president of business and community services.
Council approves sale of Holyoke Geriatric Authority property
The Holyoke Geriatric Authority, pictured here in September 2020. GAZETTE FILE PHOTO/CAROL LOLLIS
Published: 12/23/2020 11:11:17 AM
HOLYOKE The City Council has unanimously approved the sale of the former Holyoke Geriatric Authority property to Baystate Health, which intends to construct a new behavioral health hospital on the site.
At last Tuesday’s full City Council meeting, all members of the City Council voted in favor of selling the Lower Westfield Road property for $250,000. City officials estimate the city will receive more than $200,000 in annual property taxes in perpetuity from the property, even if it is sold to another entity. The companies also have agreed to a preference for local hiring.
Vaccine coming this week for area hospital workers
Baystate Health announced Tuesday that its initial shipment of Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, which included just 1,950 doses, had arrived and was placed in ultra-cold storage. The hospital system includes Baystate Franklin Medical Center in Greenfield, pictured. Staff File Photo/Paul Franz
Cooley Dickinson Hospital in Northampton will be the site of the first COVID-19 inoculation for a front-line health worker in Hampshire County. STAFF FILE PHOTO/KEVIN GUTTING
Published: 12/16/2020 4:22:25 PM
The first COVID-19 vaccinations for health care workers in the Pioneer Valley were administered at Baystate Medical Center in Springfield on Wednesday, with Cooley Dickinson Hospital in Northampton beginning to give shots Thursday, starting at 12:45 p.m. with Chief of Emergency Medicine Dr. Robert Redwood.