The following article and slideshow appear in The Berkshire Eagle. By Francesca Paris Photography by Stephanie Zollshan Four minutes before the start of a pop-up vaccine clinic in a Great Barrington parking lot, Community Health Programs staff huddle inside the bright orange Mobile Health Unit. “We need pens,” someone calls out. “Where are the pens?” […]

On the spectator sidelines of the complex 2020 horse race for a safe and effective COVID-19 vaccine, medical professionals, immunologists, researchers and medical historians are more than impressed. Never has a life-saving vaccine passed so quickly from development through vetting, clinical trials and FDA approval into the arms of potential virus patients. Read this column […]

  A series of new grants is bulking up CHP Family Services’ coffers to help area residents facing harsh financial challenges, including troubles caused by Covid-19. Awards from Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation, the Women’s Fund of Western Massachusetts, the Food Bank of Western Massachusetts and the Gilson Family Foundation will help CHP Family Services answer […]

Do you understand insulin and what does it do to the body? If you don’t have diabetes, insulin helps regulate blood sugar levels.  After you eat, carbohydrates break down into glucose, a sugar that is the body’s primary source of energy, and glucose then enters the bloodstream. Insulin resistance doesn’t happen overnight: if your diet […]

With the state’s extension of the Open Enrollment period for health insurance sign-up until May 23, Community Health Programs’ insurance counselors remain in high gear to help with applications to the MA Health Connector program. Since the annual Open Enrollment period began Nov. 1  CHP has counted a marked increase in requests for health insurance […]