Cardiologist Joins Berkshire Health Systems

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Dr. Salvatore Rosanio
PITTSFIELD, Mass. —  Dr. Salvatore Rosanio, a board-certified and fellowship-trained specialist in cardiovascular disease and cardiac devices, has joined the medical staff of Berkshire Medical Center and the physician staff of Cardiology Services at BHS. Rosanio provides general cardiology services, cardiac device implantation and diagnostic cardiac catheterization.

Rosanio joins Drs. Kyle Cooper, Kristen Currie, David Finck, Peter Hahn, Douglas Herr, Jeffery Leppo, William Levy, Lisa Massie, J. Mark Peterman, Mara Slawsky and Georgianne Valli-Harwood at Cardiology Services at BHS. Rosanio will join Dr. Hahn in the implantation and management of cardiac devices, as well as Drs. Peterman, Currie and Herr in the Diagnostic Cardiac Catheterization Lab at BMC.

Rosanio comes to the Berkshires from the Cardiology Division at the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas. He is board certified in internal medicine and cardiovascular disease and was fellowship trained in cardiology at Hospital Umberto I, La Sapienza University of Rome School of Medicine, where he also received his medical degree. He is certified by the International Board of Heart Rhythm Examiners in cardiac device implantation. He completed his residency in cardiology at the University of Texas Medical Branch. Rosanio is a fellow of the American College of Cardiology.

His clinical interests include heart failure management, pacemaker, implantable loop recorder, implantable cardioverter-defibrillator and cardiac resynchronization therapy device implantation, left and right heart catheterization and coronary angiography and clinical echocardiography.

For an appointment with Dr. Rosanio or one of his colleagues at Cardiology Services at BHS, call 413-395-7580.
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Pittsfield Housing Project Adds 37 Supportive Units and Collective Hope

By Brittany PolitoiBerkshires Staff

PITTSFIELD, Mass.— A new chapter in local efforts to combat housing insecurity officially began as community leaders and residents gathered at The First on to celebrate a major expansion of supportive housing in the city.

The ribbon was cut on Thursday Dec. 19, on nearly 40 supportive permanent housing units; nine at The First, located within the Zion Lutheran Church, and 28 on West Housatonic Street.  The Housing Resource Center, funded by Pittsfield's American Rescue Plan Act dollars, hosted a celebration for a project that is named for its rarity: The First. 

"What got us here today is the power of community working in partnership and with a shared purpose," Hearthway CEO Eileen Peltier said. 

In addition to the 28 studio units at 111 West Housatonic Street and nine units in the rear of the church building, the Housing Resource Center will be open seven days a week with two lounges, a classroom, a laundry room, a bathroom, and lockers. 

Erin Forbush, ServiceNet's director of shelter and housing, challenged attendees to transform the space in the basement of Zion Lutheran Church into a community center.  It is planned to operate from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. year-round.

"I get calls from folks that want to help out, and our shelters just aren't the right spaces to be able to do that. The First will be that space that we can all come together and work for the betterment of our community," Forbush said. 

"…I am a true believer that things evolve, and things here will evolve with the people that are utilizing it." 

Earlier that day, Executive Office of Housing and Livable Communities Secretary Ed Augustus joined Lieutenant Governor Kim Driscoll and her team in Housatonic to announce $33.5 million in federal Community Development Block Grant funding, $5.45 million to Berkshire County. 

He said it was ambitious to take on these two projects at once, but it will move the needle.  The EOHLC contributed more than $7.8 million in subsidies and $3.4 million in low-income housing tax credit equity for the West Housatonic Street build, and $1.6 million in ARPA funds for the First Street apartments.

"We're trying to get people out of shelter and off the streets, but we know there are a lot of people who are couch surfing, who are living in their cars, who are one paycheck away from being homeless themselves," Augustus said. 

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