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These Massachusetts COVID-19 testing, vaccine sites are closing early due to storm Updated Feb 01, 2021; COVID-19 testing and vaccination sites across Massachusetts plan to close early as an intense nor’easter moves into the state. The storm is expected to pile 5 to 17 inches of snow over Massachusetts between Monday and Tuesday, according to the National Weather Service. Some parts of the state, particularly in northern Worcester County and Berkshire County, could see as much as 18 inches of snow. The storm also threatens to throw another wrench in the state’s COVID-19 vaccine rollout, ...

Health care providers urge Latino, Black communities to get COVID-19 vaccine Updated Feb 01, 2021; Posted Jan 31, 2021 Dr. Alejandro Esparza-Perez is the chief medical officer at Holyoke Health Center, where more than 80 percent of the staff were willing to be immunized during the state's Phase I timeline with one of the vaccines that the Food and Drug Administration authorized for emergency use against COVID-19. (Don Treeger | The Republican) Facebook Share HOLYOKE — After Dr. Alejandro Esparza-Perez received his second dose of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine, his shoulder area was a bit s...

Ware looks to future as Baystate Health seeks to close Mary Lane Updated Jan 31, 2021; Posted Jan 31, 2021 Baystate Mary Lane Outpatient Center is located at 85 South Street in Ware. (Don Treeger | The Republican) Facebook Share WARE — Baystate Health, while explaining this week the rationale behind its planned shutdown of the Mary Lane Outpatient Center, said that of the 28 patients per day seeking care at Mary Lane’s emergency room, over 85 percent present with common, minor, non-urgent conditions which could be treated in a primary care setting. But to Tracy Opalinski of Ware, th...

‘It’s been made too complicated’: Vaccine registration process frustrates Massachusetts seniors, legislators Updated Jan 27, 2021; Posted Jan 27, 2021 The reliance on online registration and other factors have made the vaccination rollout frustrating for many Massachusetts residents 75 and older. (Alison Montemagni / Baystate Medical Center) Facebook Share With the state’s rollout of COVID-19 vaccinations for people over the age of 75 on the horizon, Gov. Charlie Baker explained the registration procedure at a press conference earlier this week. “Determine if you’re eligible, on...

‘The patients did not come’: Baystate Mary Lane, part of Ware since 1909, closing in two years under pressure of the modern health care market Updated Jan 26, 2021; Posted Jan 26, 2021 Facebook Share WARE — The president and CEO of Baystate Health said Tuesday he knows there will be some anger in the community about the health system’s plan to wind down operations at the Mary Lane Outpatient Center over the next two years, shifting services to Baystate Wing Hospital in Palmer. Dr. Mark A. Keroack — who saw patients at Mary Lane when he practiced in Worcester, and whose parents we...