Getting Here & Around

Katherine Mallory of Lenoxdale, talks about her decision to deliver her second child at Baystate Franklin Medical Center. 

Baystate’s New Beginnings is a parent education program that helps support parents of newborns. Jordan, like all mothers who deliver at Baystate Wesson Woman’s Hospital, was offered the free service after giving birth at the hospital.

12-year-old Carmelina Durocher doesn't let her health challenges get in the way of helping others.  

Paul Provost woke up one day in February and attempted to wake his wife. What he didn't know beforehand was that she had a stroke while sleeping.

Thousands of people across the Pioneer Valley suffer from essential tremors, Parkinson's disease, and dystonia. As one local resident explains, there is a life changing and state of the art procedure Baystate doctors are now performing to improve the quality of life of patients. 

16-year-old Mia Gasperini talks about how the pediatric procedure unit at Baystate Children's Hospital helps her manage her life changing diagnosis.   At 14-years-old Mia was diagnosed with Myasthenia Gravis, an auto immune disorder which attacks the place where the nerve and the muscles meet.   

1-year-old Gage Sheldon was born premature and has been on oxygen since birth. Get a behind the scenes look at the moment his family was told he was cleared to come off oxygen, just in time for 1st birthday.

One-year-old Logan Manning has been through more in his first year of his life than most people experience in a lifetime.