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Baystate Wing Hospital has announced an investment of $42,000 in grants to benefit local community-based nonprofit organizations to reduce health disparities in the region

Molly Ingemi, PURCH Class of 2021, co-authored an article on a successful community-based hepatitis C treatment program in Boston.

Baystate's Community Faculty—a diverse group of community members who have undergone professional development to educate medical students—were honored for their contributions to the Population-based Urban and Rural Community Health (PURCH) track at a celebration at the UMass Medical School Baystate campus in Springfield.

Six area students have received an increase in their college fund, courtesy of the Baystate Wing Hospital Auxiliary.

With a grant from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), Springfield students will participate in breast cancer research with Baystate Health.

UMass Athletics: Kevin Moriarty MD, Professor of Surgery and Pediatrics at UMass Medical School-Baystate, received a UMass Community Salute Award for his significant contributions to the western Massachusetts community—particularly in the area of childhood safety.

Baystate Community Faculty contribute to medical student education by communicating community needs and perspectives, facilitating group discussions, collaborating on learning activities, roleplaying patients in simulated office visits, and interviewing applicants.

Medical students in the PURCH Class of 2022 received Baystate Health's 1st Annual MLK Jr. Semester of Service award to conduct a nutrition resources fair to be held in conjunction with the emergency food pantry at Martin Luther King Jr Family Services Community Center in Springfield.

Cara Moser, whose daughter died of an accidental opioid overdose, spoke at the Pain, Suffering and Medication Assisted Treatment summit which kicked off planning for a "bridge clinic" to help those suffering with opioid use disorder in Franklin County and North Quabbin.

Researchers at UMass Medical School-Baystate are participating in a federally funded study to better understand the opioid epidemic in rural New England—its biggest public health crisis in decades.