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UMass medical students in the Population-based Urban and Rural Community Health track (PURCH) got involved with community projects to better understand their patients and the communities they live in.

@umassmed magazine: The PURCH track for medical students reaches out to the community—to help, but also to learn.

BusinessWest: Dr. Matthew Sadof, pediatrician at Baystate Children's Hospital and Healthcare Hero, tries to practice tikkun olam—healing the world.

BusinessWest:  Dr. Peter A. DePergola II, Director of Clinical Ethics, has been nominated Healthcare Hero: Emerging Leader.  He explores the hard questions in medicine—what's possible, what's allowed, and what's good.

Healthcare News: Baystate receives $1 million from efforts of Western Mass legislative delegation to provide financial support for costs associated in offering innovative educational track called PURCH (Population-based Urban and Rural Community Health).  PURCH was created in response to an ongoing shortage of physicians, particularly primary-care doctors.

MassLive:  Dr. Aaron Kugelmass discusses heart disease and stroke and the procedures now done at the Davis Family Heart and Vascular Center.  The leading the cause of death in the country, heart disease death rates have declined in Massachusetts.

MassLive:  Dr. Keroack supported the proposal for "syringe services programs" brought before the Public Health Council in favor of a needle exchange program.  Admitting it is not a cure-all to the drug crisis, these programs offer opportunities for treatment programs, supply Naxolone for overdose treatment, and in the end are cost effective by reducing transmission of blood-borne diseases.

Medical students in their first Doctoring and Clinical Skills class learned diagnostic reasoning skills with the help of a master auto mechanic.

Massachusetts has more than 100 hospitals and Baystate Medical Center was named third best in the state by U.S. News & World Report Best Hospitals rankings released in August 2017.

Thirty-two college students have been awarded a total of $54,500 in scholarships from the Baystate Springfield Educational Partnership (BSEP).