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Baystate Health to close Mary Lane Outpatient Center in Ware Updated Jan 26, 2021; Posted Jan 26, 2021 Baystate Mary Lane Outpatient Center is located at 85 South Street in Ware. (Don Treeger | The Republican) Facebook Share WARE Baystate Health plans to phase out its Mary Lane Outpatient Center within two years, closing the facility by 2023 and relocating a majority of its services to Baystate Wing Hospital in Palmer. In June, Baystate will close the Baystate Mary Lane Satellite Emergency and cancer care services will be transitioned to the D’Amour Center for Cancer Care in Springfield. Over the next two years, imaging/3D mammography and rehabilitation services, as well as OB/GYN and pediatric medical practices, will relocate to Baystate Wing, according to a letter from Baystate Health officials distributed Tuesday. ....
Baystate Medical Center to offer 12-bed behavioral health unit for children in wake of area shortage Updated Jan 22, 2021; Posted Jan 22, 2021 Dr. Barry Sarvet is a Baystate Health psychiatrist and chair of the psychiatry department at Baystate Medical Center. (Photo by Anne-Gerard Flynn, Special to The Republican) Facebook Share SPRINGFIELD Baystate Health will open a temporary 12-bed child and adolescent unit at its Baystate Medical Center campus in April, the health system announced Friday. Providence Behavioral Health, operating locally as Trinity Health Of New England, closed its 74 inpatient psychiatric beds in September that it once offered in Holyoke. That number included the only 12 pediatric psychiatric beds for children and teens available in the region. ....
Council approves sale of Holyoke Geriatric Authority property The Holyoke Geriatric Authority, pictured here in September 2020. GAZETTE FILE PHOTO/CAROL LOLLIS Published: 12/23/2020 11:11:17 AM HOLYOKE The City Council has unanimously approved the sale of the former Holyoke Geriatric Authority property to Baystate Health, which intends to construct a new behavioral health hospital on the site. At last Tuesday’s full City Council meeting, all members of the City Council voted in favor of selling the Lower Westfield Road property for $250,000. City officials estimate the city will receive more than $200,000 in annual property taxes in perpetuity from the property, even if it is sold to another entity. The companies also have agreed to a preference for local hiring. ....
Holyoke City Council accepts Baystate Health’s $250,000 offer for former Geriatric Authority property Updated Dec 17, 2020; Posted Dec 16, 2020 7/20/2020 -Holyoke- The former Holyoke Geriatric Authority building at 45 Lower Westfield Road. (Don Treeger / The Republican) Facebook Share HOLYOKE The City Council has accepted a $250,000 offer for the former Holyoke Geriatric Authority property at 45 Lower Westfield Road, where Baystate Health and Kindred Healthcare propose a $43 million psychiatric hospital. The proposal drew strong opposition at Tuesday’s council meeting from Holyoke Medical Center, which is planning its own psychiatric facility on its Beech Street campus. HMC President Spiros Hatiras said it was unlikely the state would approve two psychiatric facilities so close together. ....
City closer to sale of Holyoke Geriatric Authority property The Holyoke Geriatric Authority, pictured here in September 2020. GAZETTE FILE PHOTO Modified: 12/10/2020 4:09:45 PM HOLYOKE The City Council is set to consider a new bid from Baystate Health and its partner Kindred Healthcare to purchase the former Holyoke Geriatric Authority property to construct a new behavioral health hospital. At Tuesday’s meeting of the City Council’s Development And Government Relations Committee, the city’s director of planning and economic development, Marcos Marrero, presented the Baystate-Kindred offer to purchase the property at 45 Lower Westfield Rd. for $250,000. The four members of the committee voted unanimously to recommend approving that agreement, which will now go before the full council. ....