Community Foundation of Western Mass awards $859K in COVID-relief funds to groups helping immigrants masslive.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from masslive.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Baystate Health-led group addresses inequities amid pandemic MassLive.com 2/19/2021
One of the many ways of improving health care outcomes is to address health inequities.
According to the American Medical Association, “marginalized and minoritized patients have and will suffer disproportionately during the COVID-19 crisis due to the inequities in society perpetuated by systemic practices.”
As the large first surge of the coronavirus in Greater Springfield was just beginning to ease in April and the inequitable impact on vulnerable groups had become clear, a work group gathered virtually to address the impact.
Comprised of leaders, experts and stakeholders from Baystate Health, Caring Health Center and the Public Health Institute of Western Massachusetts, the work group quickly determined their key activities would be:
Baystate Health-led group addresses inequities amid pandemic masslive.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from masslive.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Beyond COVID: Expect a ‘click and mortar’ approach as colleges emerge from the pandemic
Posted Feb 16, 2021
Westfield State University professor Tarin Weiss teaches a geology class from her Westhampton home in December. (Don Treeger / The Republican file photo)
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When the coronavirus pandemic closed college campuses in March of 2020, administrators initially hoped that some normalcy would return by the fall semester.
That did not happen. Some schools that reopened dormitories had to shut them down again. Others did not reopen their campuses at all, continuing classes online.
Every pandemic in human history has ended, though, and as vaccines are distributed and visions of a COVID-free future are maintained, college officials are reviewing what was lost, learned and accomplished during the past year.
Authorities charge homeless man with arson in Springfield fire; Park Street building was set for demolition
Updated Feb 12, 2021;
Posted Feb 12, 2021
This building at 24 Park St. in downtown Springfield, which was set to be demolished, was damaged in a fire Feb. 10, 2021. (Don Treeger / The Republican file photo)
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SPRINGFIELD A suspect was arrested by Springfield authorities Thursday in connection with a fire that damaged a derelict downtown building the day before.
John Patrick Doherty, 35, whose last known address was in Darmouth, was arrested and charged with arson of a building after fire investigators and Springfield police detectives identified him from video surveillance footage and eyewitness statements.