Nutritionist Joins CHP Neighborhood Health Center

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PITTSFIELD, Mass. - Nutritionist Christina Garner has joined the CHP Neighborhood Health Center medical practice.

Garner is a clinical nutritionist and wellness educator with expertise in medical nutrition counseling, fitness and health education. She places emphasis on integrative nutrition, program design and practical methods for implementing dietary changes.

She has worked for 13 years at Canyon Ranch Lenox and in private practice, a substance abuse facility and the Nutrition Center in Pittsfield. In her new role, she will also provide nutrition services to patients of CHP Berkshire Pediatrics in Pittsfield.


She has has also served as as an adjunct professor of nutrition at MCLA and at Berkshire Community College; she is a published writer and editor and has served as a corporate spokesperson on nutrition topics.

Garner holds a master of science degree in clinical nutrition from the University of Bridgeport, Conn., and earned her B.A. in psychology, with a minor in legal studies, from St. John's University in Jamaica, N.Y. She is a licensed and certified nutritionist, dietitian, personal trainer and fitness instructor.

For an appointment with Garner at CHP Neighborhood Health Center, call 413-447-2351.

 


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North Adams Regional Reopens With Ribbon-Cutting Celebration

By Tammy DanielsiBerkshires Staff

BHS President and CEO Darlene Rodowicz welcomes the gathering to the celebration of the hospital's reopening 10 years to the day it closed. 
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — The joyful celebration on Thursday at North Adams Regional Hospital was a far cry from the scene 10 years ago when protests and tears marked the facility's closing
 
Hospital officials, local leaders, medical staff, residents and elected officials gathered under a tent on the campus to mark the efforts over the past decade to restore NARH and cut the ribbon officially reopening the 136-year-old medical center. 
 
"This hospital under previous ownership closed its doors. It was a day that was full of tears, anger and fear in the Northern Berkshire community about where and how residents would be able to receive what should be a fundamental right for everyone — access to health care," said Darlene Rodowicz, president and CEO of Berkshire Health Systems. 
 
"Today the historic opportunity to enhance the health and wellness of Northern Berkshire community is here. And we've been waiting for this moment for 10 years. It is the key to keeping in line with our strategic plan which is to increase access and support coordinated county wide system of care." 
 
Berkshire Medical Center in Pittsfield, under the BHS umbrella, purchased the campus and affiliated systems when Northern Berkshire Healthcare declared bankruptcy and closed on March 28, 2014. NBH had been beset by falling admissions, reductions in Medicare and Medicaid payments, and investments that had gone sour leaving it more than $30 million in debt. 
 
BMC was able to reopen the ER as an emergency satellite facility and slowly restored and enhanced medical services including outpatient surgery, imaging, dialysis, pharmacy and physician services. 
 
But it would take a slight tweak in the U.S. Health and Human Services' regulations — thank to U.S. Rep. Richie Neal — to bring back inpatient beds and resurrect North Adams Regional Hospital 
 
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