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Springfield College announced that
Beth Zapatka has been hired as the new vice president for Institutional Advancement, following a national and competitive search. Zapatka comes to Springfield College from Yale University, where she served as associate dean for Development and Alumni Affairs for the Yale School of Nursing. She will join the President’s Leadership Team on July 1 and oversee all institutional-advancement efforts, including the departments of Advancement Services, Alumni Relations, and Development. In a nine-year career at Yale, Zapatka held numerous roles that created a well-rounded set of experiences in institutional advancement that are directly transferable to Springfield College. In her most recent role in the School of Nursing, her accomplishments include securing significant new resources nearly tripling contributions to the school overseeing a rebranding campaign, building university-wide collaborations, broadening the use of social-
New York Life’s Jean Deliso Named Agent of the Year
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AGAWAM Jean Deliso of the Connecticut Valley General Office of New York Life, an agent since 1995, has received the Agent of the Year Award for 2020. This award recognizes the agent who has achieved the top production among all agents at the company’s Connecticut Valley General Office.
“We applaud Jean for this achievement,” said Steven Solonch, managing partner of the Connecticut Valley General Office. “Being acknowledged as the Agent of the Year is a significant accomplishment. She received this recognition for her ability to meet the financial needs of families and businesses in the Western Massachusetts/Southern Connecticut area.”
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Baystate Medical Center readies $208M ‘hospital of the future’ with 18 operating rooms, eight laboratories
Updated Feb 07, 2021;
Posted Feb 07, 2021
Entrance to the Hospital of the Future, also known as the MassMutual Wing, at Baystate Medical Center in Springfield. (Hoang Leon Nguyen / The Republican)
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SPRINGFIELD Baystate Medical Center will begin work over the next few months on its $208 million buildout of unfinished space once dubbed the “Hospital of the Future.”
Now called the MassMutual Wing, the 640,000-square-foot, seven-floor addition already has Baystate’s emergency departments and the Davis Family Heart & Vascular Center.
The project which got approval from the state Department of Public Health in December will go out to bid in the next few weeks, said Kirsten Waltz, Baystate Health’s director of facilities planning and design.
Banks, Credit Unions Ramp Up Philanthropy During Difficult Year
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Paul Scully says much of Country Bank’s philanthropy in 2020 was directed at “COVID-related initiatives.”
Paul Scully says local philanthropy is baked into the DNA of this region’s financial institutions.
“Banks have always been great about supporting communities. And we are fairly philanthropic,” Country Bank’s president and CEO added, noting that the bank gave $1.3 million to local nonprofits last year, touching about 400 different organizations in some way.
Those numbers aren’t atypical. What made 2020 slightly different is where that money went.
“Of that, about a half-million went to what I would call COVID-related initiatives,” Scully said, citing causes ranging from equipping frontline workers at hospitals to meeting soaring demand at local food banks due to the pandemic’s economic impact on families.