CHP Names New CEO to Lead Berkshire Healthcare Network

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GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass. — Community Health Programs has named Bethany Kieley as its new chief executive officer, effective July 17, 2023.

She will oversee the countywide healthcare network caring for more than 30,000 patients in the region.

Kieley is currently the chief operations officer at Cornell Scott-Hill Health Center, a large federally qualified health center serving the New Haven, Connecticut region. Previously, she worked for nearly 12 years with ProHealth Physicians, a large medical practice network in Connecticut where she became vice president of practice operations, programs and services.

She also worked as the chief operating officer for Women's Care Florida, and in her earlier career, she held administrative roles with medical practices in Massachusetts and New Hampshire.

"Ms. Kieley brings an impressive healthcare executive background, expertise in medical practice development and a strong commitment to the work of federally qualified health centers, which provide health care to all," said Brian Drake, president of the CHP board. "She will be a strong asset to CHP Berkshires and the wider Berkshire community as we move forward."

Drake commended interim CEO, Richard "Rick" Gregg for his steady and dedicated leadership during the last year.

"Rick helped strengthen CHP's medical and operational leadership, renewed CHP's partnership with the Berkshire Fallon accountable care organization in partnership with Berkshire Health Systems, and stood as a strong advocate for CHP's mission," said Drake. "We are grateful to Rick for setting an excellent stage for our next CEO." Gregg will return to Suffolk University's full-time faculty, where he will continue to teach healthcare administration.

Kieley earned her master's degree in business administration from Plymouth State University and completed a healthcare executive leadership program at Stanford University. She earned her bachelor's degree in music and business from DePaul University. In her community in New Haven, she has served as a volunteer and board member for Literacy Volunteers of Southern Connecticut.

A New Englander, she hails from Newport, R.I. and grew up in Claremont, N.H. She enjoys travel, hiking, biking and kayaking in her free time.

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Karen Allen on Harrison Ford, John Belushi, Steven Spielberg and Williamstown

By Alan PetrucelliSpecial to iBerkshires
12:42PM / Saturday, August 08, 2026

Karen Allen operates her fiber arts and clothing store in Great Barrington when she's not making movies or performing in plays. Below, Allen with Harrison Ford during the shooting of 'Raiders of the Lost Ark.' She's appeared in three of the five Raiders movies.

STOCKBRIDGE, Mass. — Karen Allen wants to talk about the time she went blind.

It was 1979, a year after the release of her first major film, "National Lampoon's Animal House." She and a group of the movie's alum got together on a Sunday afternoon and threw a party, "to play music, hang out and sing." A day later, "the painful symptoms" began. Allen learned that she had contracted keratoconjunctivitis, a dangerous and rare eye disease that created "terrible, terrible, terrible pain. It caused me to go blind for a while ... my eye muscles started to deteriorate. I had to stay in my apartment to make sure — God forbid! — I didn't give it to anyone. It took about two months for me to recover."

That was then. Today, 47 years after the sightless saga, Allen can see clearly. And the choices she had made in her 50-plus year career remain sharply in focus: "The Wanderers," "Cruising," Raiders of the Lost Ark," "Shoot the Moon," "Starman," "Scrooged" — the list is longer than her bit role in Woody Allen's "Manhattan".

And that is just her film work. (Ironically, Allen played a 20-year-old Helen Keller in "Monday After the Miracle," the sequel to "The Miracle Worker." The 1982 drama flopped and played only 16 performances, marking Allen's only Broadway performance.)

This season, Allen returned to the Berkshire Theatre Group's Unicorn Theatre in Abi Morgan's "LoveSong," a play about how love changes people over time. Allen fell in love with the work when she saw it on closing night in Ireland last summer. She sent the script to BTG's Artistic Director and CEO Kate Maguire who "loved it" and green-lighted the project.

"LoveSong" runs through Aug. 29. For tickets or more information, call 413-997-4444 or visit BerkshireTheatreGroup.org.

Next up for Allen: The October release of the film "Other Mommy," "a psychological horror film."

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