Cooley Dickinson, First in Region to Offer Laser Treatment for Enlarged Prostate
Cooley Dickinson Hospital is the first facility in the region to offer laser therapy for treating benign prostate hyperplasia (BPH). GreenLight Laser Therapy may provide relief for area men suffering from an enlarged prostate. BPH, a non-cancerous enlargement of the prostate, affects more than half of all men over the age of 60. (continued)
Cooley Dickinson Welcomes New Emergency Department Physicians
.F. Conway, MD, medical director of Cooley Dickinson Hospital’s Emergency Department (ED) announces two physicians who this month received their privileges to practice in the hospital’s ED. (continued)
Cooley Dickinson Hospital receives American Heart Association Get With The Guidelines Bronze Performance Achievement Award
Cooley Dickinson Hospital recently received the American Heart Association‘s Get With The Guidelines-Coronary Artery Disease (GWTG-CAD) Bronze Performance Achievement Award. The award recognizes Cooley Dickinson‘s commitment and success in implementing a higher standard of cardiac care that effectively improves treatment of patients hospitalized with coronary artery disease. (continued)
Cooley Dickinson Hospital participates in the American Heart Association’s Get With The Guidelines Heart Failure program
Cooley Dickinson Hospital is participating in the American Heart Association’s Get With The Guidelines-Heart Failure (GWTG-HF) program. The GWTG-HF program provides hospital staff with tools that follow proven evidence-based guidelines and procedures in caring for heart failure patients to prevent future hospitalizations. (continued)
MRI Center used for patient care, research opens for tours, info
In a new collaboration with UMass Amherst, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) will be used to examine brain activity, a practice known as neuroimaging
Community members are invited to attend an open house on Wednesday, June 4 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the Cooley Dickinson Amherst Outpatient Center located at 170 University Drive. Area residents will have an opportunity to take a behind-the-scenes tour of Cooley Dickinson‘s Amherst MRI facility featuring the Siemens High-Field Open MRI, view demonstrations of imaging technology and learn how professors at the University of Massachusetts Amherst will use this state-of-the-art technology to aid their research. (continued)
CDH Acting CEO receives University’s Nursing Service Leadership Award
Recently, Carol Smith, RN, acting CEO of Cooley Dickinson Hospital was awarded the Nursing Service Leadership Award, an honor given to a nursing leader in the community who has provided generous support to the University of Massachusetts Amherst School of Nursing and its programs. (continued)
Statewide honors given to western Mass. therapist for reducing restraints; focusing on alternative methods to aid psychiatric patients
On May 6, Tina Champagne, occupational therapy and counselor staff supervisor at Cooley Dickinson Hospital was awarded the Massachusetts Department of Mental Health Commissioner’s Distinguished Service Award for Reducing and Eliminating Restraint and Seclusion. She also received a second award, a Senate citation, for her local, state-wide and national advocacy and innovative work in these areas. (continued)
Health Access Fair planned at Cooley Dickinson Hospital; area agencies to participate
Area residents can learn about available health-related programs and speak to area representatives
Hampshire HealthConnect, a program of Cooley Dickinson Hospital, will take part in Cover the Uninsured week from April 28 to May 2 by sponsoring a Health Fair from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily in the hospital’s main lobby and along the first floor corridor leading to the North Building. The event is free and open to the public.(continued)
Death from a different perspective: CDH oncologist co-authors text
Achieving a balance between science and compassion was a motivating force behind Dr. Lindsay E. Rockwell’s latest endeavor: co-authoring a book titled In Defiance of Death: Exposing the Real Costs of End-of-Life Care. “In our book, we explore the medicalization of dying,” Rockwell says. “By taking a historical look at death and how we die, we notice that technology has removed us from the natural process of dying by, in some cases, prolonging life. This book is about how people die, and how the medical system has fallen off course.”(continued)
CDH announces grants to support community projects
Several mini-grants of up to $5,000 are available; applications are being accepted through March 31
Cooley Dickinson Hospital is pleased to be able to offer a chance to help area residents put their ideas on community health into action. Through Cooley Dickinson’s Healthy Communities Committee, a subcommittee of the hospital’s Board of Trustees, Cooley Dickinson is offering several mini-grants of up to $5,000 each to support community projects aimed at making the community healthier. (continued)
Tucker Kueny, MD accepts offer of midwifery medical director post
Cooley’s midwifery practice to progress at quicker pace; midwife recruitment continues with opening planned in June
Following a nationwide search to locate the medical director of Cooley Dickinson’s new midwifery program, the physician who accepted the post resides in Northampton and was recommended by area women at one of the hospital’s community focus groups. (continued)
State agency awards CDH patient safety award for preventing infections
Cooley joins the ranks of Mass. General and New England Baptist to receive this state-wide honor
On Tuesday, Cooley Dickinson Hospital was awarded the 2007 Betsy Lehman Patient Safety Recognition Award at the fourth annual Betsy Lehman Patient Safety Conference in Boston. The only western Massachusetts hospital to take top honors, Cooley Dickinson was praised for implementing improvement initiatives that, over time, have eliminated hospital-associated infections such as central line blood stream infections and ventilator-associated pneumonia. (continued)
AIDS CARE/Hampshire County Director lauded for work with HIV community
On Tuesday, November 27, Anna-Beth Winograd, director of the AIDS CARE/Hampshire County program, was presented with the first-ever Phatiwe S. Cohen Memorial Award at the Massachusetts Department of Public Health AIDS Bureau Common Visions conference in Boston. (continued)
New technology for managing cancer: Cooley offers PET/CT scanning
Providing access to leading edge imaging technology for its patients, Cooley Dickinson Hospital now offers PET/CT, a form of advanced, non-invasive imaging used to diagnose and manage cancer as well as brain disorders and heart disease. (continued)
Surpassing its goal, CDH celebrates the close of historic fundraising drive
Acting president and CEO Carol M. Smith thanked employees, physicians, donors and community members who gathered Wednesday to celebrate the end of the campaign as well as the amount raised. “This is a campaign and another Cooley Dickinson milestone that we can all be very proud of. Our community, both locally and abroad, has stepped up to help Cooley Dickinson meet and surpass our goal, and we are extremely grateful.” (continued)
Fall fashions debut at Cooley fashion show fundraiser
On Wednesday, October 3, community members are invited to attend the Annual Fashion Show, presented by the Cooley Dickinson Hospital Auxiliary. The event will be held at the Clarion Hotel and Conference Center beginning with a luncheon at noon; doors open at 11:30 a.m. (continued)
Two CDH echocardiography labs earn national accreditation
Cooley Dickinson Hospital’s echocardiography labs located in Northampton and Amherst were awarded accreditation recently in Adult Transthoracic Echocardiography (cardiac ultrasound) by the Intersocietal Commission for the Accreditation of Echocardiography Laboratories (ICAEL). (continued)
CDH introduces Minimally Invasive and Robotic Surgery Program
Today, Cooley Dickinson Hospital announces the Minimally Invasive and Robotic Surgery Program at the Kittredge Surgery Center. As part of this new program, Cooley Dickinson joins only ten percent of hospitals nationwide to offer the da Vinci® S Surgical System, state-of-the-art, minimally invasive robotic technology that allows surgeons to perform precise movements using micro-instruments within a patient’s operative site. The da Vinci S provides surgeons with an alternative to open surgeries and conventional laparoscopy, and it enables them to perform the most complex and delicate procedures through much smaller incisions with precision. (continued)
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Cooley Dickinson announces Healthy Communities grant awardees
Cooley Dickinson Hospital has awarded $46,325 to 13 applicants whose mission is to improve community health. The hospital’s Healthy Communities Committee, a subcommittee of the hospital’s Board of Trustees, has coordinated the process of soliciting applicants and awarding the grants. The Healthy Communities Committee comprised primarily of community members, with hospital staff representation, reviewed 100 grant applications from Pioneer Valley residents and organizations. (continued)
Cooley’s cardiovascular services program celebrates a milestone
Since July 13, 2006, Cooley Dickinson-affiliated cardiologists have performed 140 diagnostic cardiac catheterizations and surgically implanted 112 pacemakers and 43 defibrillators. On Friday, Cooley Dickinson celebrates the suite’s one-year anniversary that is marked by expanded services, excellent patient outcomes and high patient satisfaction. (continued)
CDH programs receive Komen quality of life grant for women with breast cancer
Cooley Dickinson Hospital's Cancer Care Program and its Center for Complementary Therapies
have been awarded a grant from the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation for $34,457 to provide complementary
therapy services to area women living with breast cancer. Services will be provided in collaboration with Cancer
Connection, Women's Health Network/Tapestry Health, Hospice of the Fisher Home and the VNA & Hospice of Cooley
Dickinson. (continued)
CDH installs MRI unit at Amherst outpatient center
Residents living east of the Connecticut River now have access to a new magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system that features an extra large opening for patients of all sizes and people who experience claustrophobia. The new MRI unit is located at the Cooley Dickinson Amherst Outpatient Center.
On Friday, May 11, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health issued Cooley Dickinson Hospital a certificate of occupancy for MRI unit that is housed within the Imaging/Radiology department at the 170 University Drive location. The first patients were seen on Tuesday, May 15. (continued)
CDH awards nursing scholarships to two area women
A Greenfield resident and a Westhampton native have been awarded $500 each in scholarships from Cooley Dickinson Hospital to pursue careers in nursing.
Joni E. Bullock of Greenfield is the recipient of the 2007 Edward Moss Memorial Scholarship. Bullock, 36, is a medical secretary on the adult/pediatric unit at Cooley Dickinson Hospital and is pursuing a nursing degree at Elms College in Chicopee. Bullock is trained as a certified nursing assistant and is a massage therapist. (continued)
CDH limits smoking on the hospital campus to one area for patients/guests
Effective Monday, May 14, people who choose to smoke while they are on the Cooley Dickinson Hospital campus will be asked to smoke inside the smoking shelter that is located across from the hospital's Emergency Department. This will be the only public smoking area until November 15 when the entire campus will go smoke-free.
On November 16, 2006, Cooley Dickinson Hospital announced plans to become a smoke-and tobacco-free campus by November 15, 2007. Effective November 15, the date of the American Cancer Society's Great American SmokeOut®, smoking and other tobacco products will be prohibited from the hospital's campus. (continued)
Ceremony signifies opening of new building, surgery center
Today, over 500 community members, donors, employees, physicians, volunteers, legislators, contractors and friends of Cooley Dickinson Hospital attended a ribbon cutting ceremony and open house that officially marked the opening of the hospital's $50 million New Patient Building and Kittredge Surgery Center.
Following a program that included presentations by CDH President/CEO Craig Melin, donors and U.S. Rep. Richard Neal, the official ribbon in front of the new building's main entrance was cut, and members of the community took turns cutting commemorative ribbons nearby. (continued)
CDH signs the Healthy Food in Healthcare Pledge
Two western Massachusetts hospitals have become the first in the state to commit to serving healthy food that is locally sourced and sustainably grown.
Representatives from Cooley Dickinson Hospital and Fairview Hospital, part of the Berkshire Health System, recently signed the Healthy Food in Healthcare Pledge, a voluntary commitment to serve food that is healthier for people and the environment sponsored by Health Care Without Harm. (continued)
CDH, Hilltown Health Center announce partnership, new service
Beginning Tuesday, February 27, residents of Worthington and the surrounding towns will have convenient access to physical therapy services.
In an expansion of its hospital-based services, Cooley Dickinson Hospital will offer physical therapy at the Hilltown Community Health Center located at 58 Old North Road in Worthington. Physical therapy has never before been offered at this location. Initially, services will be provided on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 1 to 5 p.m.; additional hours will be added as referrals to this location increase. (continued)
Women and heart disease discussion offered at CDH
In recognition of heart awareness month, Cooley Dickinson Hospital-affiliated cardiologist Stephen DiPillo, MD, FACC will address ways that women can prevent heart disease. This event, open to women and their partners, will be held on Wednesday, February 28 from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Dakin Conference Room at CDH.
In addition to the lecture and question and answer session, registered dietician and cookbook author Bill Bradley will discuss the Mediterranean diet. (continued)
Cooley Dickinson Hospital Receives American Stroke Association's Initial Achievement Award
Cooley Dickinson Hospital recently received the American Stroke Association's Get With The Guidelines-Stroke (GWTG-Stroke) Initial Performance Achievement Award. The award recognizes Cooley Dickinson Hospital's commitment and success in implementing a higher standard of stroke care by ensuring that stroke patients receive treatment according to nationally accepted standards and recommendations.
"With a stroke, time lost is brain lost, and the GWTG-Stroke initial performance achievement award addresses the important element of time," says Glenn Focht, MD, senior vice president medical affairs and chief medical officer at CDH. Cooley Dickinson has developed a comprehensive system for rapid diagnosis and treatment of stroke patients admitted to its Emergency Department. This includes being equipped 24 hours a day, seven days a week to provide brain imaging scans, having neurologists available to conduct patient evaluations and using clot-busting medications when appropriate. (continued)
CDH expands complementary therapies at hospital-based specialty center
At the Center for Complementary Therapies at Cooley Dickinson Hospital, healing is about the mind and spirit, as well as the body.
Effective immediately, a variety of new complementary therapies including acupuncture, aromatherapy, healing touch, healing music and self-hypnosis/guided imagery have been added to the center's menu of services. These modalities are in addition to therapeutic massage, pre-natal and postpartum massage and Reiki, services that have been offered at the specialty center since 2004. (continued)
Alfred Griggs Awarded NEHA Leadership Award
Alfred Griggs, a board member of Cooley Dickinson Hospital in Northampton, received the New England Healthcare Assembly's Trustee Leadership Award at the 27TH Annual Trustee conference that was held Dec. 7, 8 at the Sheraton Boston Hotel in Boston.
Griggs was honored for advancing the nationally acclaimed Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC) in Lebanon, N.H. As a board member and chairman of the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Alliance - a group of 11 local hospitals, mental heath centers and home care agencies - Griggs helped oversee the expansion of this network. (continued)
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