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By ALEXA LEWIS
NORTHAMPTON — Cooley Dickinson Hospital and Highland Valley Elder Services will expand the state’s Hospital to Home Partnership Program thanks to a nearly $200,000 grant announced by the governor’s office last month. The program will involve providing...
By ALEXA LEWIS
NORTHAMPTON — The far-reaching destruction of Hurricane Helene has generated a national shortage of IV fluids commonly used in hospitals, leading Cooley Dickinson Hospital and the rest of the Mass General Brigham system to postpone some elective...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
NORTHAMPTON — Dr. Lynnette M. Watkins, who has served as Cooley Dickinson Hospital’s president and chief operating officer for nearly three years, has left the position.Reached by phone Wednesday morning, Watkins, who began her tenure at the hospital...
By XINYI YANG
BOSTON — Massachusetts teaching hospitals and medical institutions must obtain written informed consent before any sensitive and intimate examination, including breast, rectal, prostate, and pelvic exams, as a result of a federal decision effective...
By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL
NORTHAMPTON – Sugarloaf Pediatrics in Deerfield will be changing hands on July 1, with the pediatric center shifting under Northampton Area Pediatrics, according to an announcement made by its current owner Cooley Dickinson Hospital and its parent...
By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL
NORTHAMPTON — On Saturday afternoons, patients at Cooley Dickinson Hospital’s behavioral health unit are treated to the sounds of soothing piano music, hearing tunes such as “You Got a Friend and Me,” and “Hallelujah.”And it’s all thanks to a chance...
By EMILEE KLEIN
NORTHAMPTON — Elliot James Krason might be the first 2024 baby born in Cooley Dickinson Hospital, but he’s not his family’s first New Year’s Day baby.Elliot’s twin aunts, Abigail and Jessica Krason, were born on New Year’s Day 35 years ago at 10:13...
By MADDIE FABIAN
NORTHAMPTON — Like many of their peers, 15-year-old Kai Imperial-Jewett experienced “some pretty dark times” during the quarantine and isolation days of the pandemic.Even with supportive parents, as an only child and middle-schooler without any...
By MADDIE FABIAN
NORTHAMPTON — After nearly a year without a contract and two years with no raise, about 600 Cooley Dickinson Hospital workers will receive an average wage increase of 21% over 20 months, among other gains in a new contract ratified unanimously this...
By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL
NORTHAMPTON — Malfunctioning equipment responsible for sterilizing medical instruments and devices forced Cooley Dickinson Hospital to temporarily suspend both elective and emergency surgical operations on Nov. 6, though some of those procedures...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
AMHERST — A $1 million gift from Amherst College is supporting the renovation and expansion of the Jones Library expected to break ground next year, marking the largest contribution so far to the ongoing $14.6 million capital campaign.The college’s...
By MADDIE FABIAN
In making a pitch for a new comprehensive health program for the country nearly 78 years ago, President Harry S. Truman said this to Congress: “With the help of federal funds, it should be possible to meet deficiencies in hospital and health...
ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL
NORTHAMPTON — Cooley Dickinson Hospital broke ground on its new emergency department building in a ceremony Thursday, an event that also celebrated the 10-year anniversary of its partnership with the Mass General Brigham hospital system.The project,...
By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL
NORTHAMPTON — In the decade since Cooley Dickinson Hospital joined the system of then Massachusetts General Hospital, the partnership has shown its value in an expansion of services and capacity, the provision of expertise and support that helped the...
By Sam Doran
BOSTON — A proposed pilot program for Massachusetts hospitals could be “game-changing” in identifying medical error cases and the causes behind them, the Betsy Lehman Center’s executive director said Monday, and several hospitals have expressed...
By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL
NORTHAMPTON — Cooley Dickinson Hospital is getting a rebranding that emphasizes the Northampton hospital’s ties with the Mass General Brigham health care system.New entrance signs leading into the hospital at 30 Locust St. now display the Mass General...
By STEVE PFARRER
In the 1990s, Sally Greenhouse had a regular gig on Northampton Community Television (now Northampton Open Media, or NOM) with her show “The Greenhouse Effect,” a combination of performance art, monologue and comedy in which the multidisciplinary...
By LAUREL DEMKOVICH
NORTHAMPTON — About 30 people “painted the path pink” Monday, tying baby pink ribbons around posts along Elm Street. Wearing everything from pink tie-dye shirts and socks to hats with pink ribbons, the group braved the heat and walked 1.4 miles from...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
NORTHAMPTON — Around 300 service workers employed at Cooley Dickinson Hospital will join a labor union following the results of a secret ballot election conducted by the National Labor Relations Board Thursday.But ballot challenges and a narrow margin...
By JOSHUA SOLOMON
GREENFIELD — Baystate Franklin nurses head back to the bargaining table Friday, the first time since before a strike and lockout that Baystate Health announced Thursday cost the organization about $1 million.Nearly a month since the nurses went to...
By LISA SPEAR
The Pioneer Valley has one of the highest instances of breast cancer in the state, so it is especially important for women here to get screened, ideally in a comfortable environment. That is one major reason Cooley Dickinson Hospital in Northampton is...
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