Nurse Practitioner Joins Northern Berkshire Family Medicine

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Rita Willey
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Northern Berkshire Healthcare has welcomed Rita M. Willey, a family nurse practitioner, to Northern Berkshire Family Medicine at 820 State Road.

Willey graduated from Western New England College in 2001 with a masters in business administration and health-care management, and is a recent graduate of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst's Doctorate of Nursing Practice Program. She is certified by the American Nurses Credentialing Center as a family nurse practitioner, and completed her capstone dissertation with a focus on heart failure disease management.

With 18 years of experience in local health care in both administrative and nursing positions at Berkshire Medical Center in Pittsfield and Fairview Hospital in Great Barrington, Willey brings a broad spectrum of talent to Northern Berkshire Family Medicine.

Willey joins Drs. Anping Han, and Jean Culver and family nurse practitioners Liz Toomajian and Robin Love. For information or to schedule an appointment: 413-664-4088.
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SteepleCats Fall in Extra Innings

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NORTH ADAMS, Mass. -- The Ocean State Waves scored four runs in the top of the 11th and went on to a 9-6 win over the SteepleCats in the New England Collegiate Baseball League.
 
Jack LaRose went 3-for-5 with a double in the game-winning rally.
 
North Adams (1-9) had a golden opportunity to win the game in the bottom of the 10th.
 
With the game tied, 5-5, Nelphie Lopez started the inning with a sacrifice bunt to advance Bobby Stang, the "ghost runner," to third base. Ocean State (3-8) then intentionally walked the next two hitters to load the bases with one out.
 
Waves reliver Andrew Jacobs then got a 1-2-3 double play to end the inning.
 
Jacobs struck out a pair and allowed one unearned run in the bottom of the 11th in three innings of work to earn the win.
 
North Adams used five pitchers. Joe LaPrade struck out a pair and allowed no runs in two innings of work.
 
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