Berkshire Occupational Health Merging with BHS Urgent Care

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PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Berkshire Health Systems has announced that Berkshire Occupational Health will merge with BHS Urgent Care and will relocate to the Urgent Care location at 505 East Street, St. Luke’s Square, Pittsfield. The relocation will take place on Monday, Feb. 25.

"This move will allow Berkshire Occupational Health to provide local businesses and their employees with enhanced services and added convenience," said Dr. Brian Quinn, medical director of both Berkshire Occupational Health and BHS Urgent Care. "By combining Berkshire Occupational Health with Berkshire Health Urgent Care, our clinical offerings will be more expansive, and in the event employees of our client companies need immediate walk-in care services in addition to occupational health needs, they will be provided in the same location."

Berkshire Occupational Health provides comprehensive services to numerous Berkshire-area businesses and their employees, including physical examinations, occupational injury/illness management and workers compensation services, initial injury evaluations and follow-up, OSHA medical surveillance, hearing and vision conservation, respiratory protection, return to work evaluations, drug screening and breath alcohol testing, immunizations, tuberculosis screening and education, ergonomic workplace evaluation and training, worksite walkthrough visits with follow-up reports, environmental exposure evaluations and other services.

BHS Urgent Care provides immediate care for minor illness and injury and is open seven days a week, with both walk-in and online reservation for patients.

Berkshire Occupational Health will maintain its current hours, Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., with 24/7/365 availability for drug and breath alcohol testing. The phone number also remains the same, 413-447-2684.


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Pittsfield CPA Committee Funds Half of FY24 Requests

By Brittany PolitoiBerkshires Staff

PITTSFIELD, Mass. — A few projects are not getting funded by the Community Preservation Committee because of a tight budget.

The projects not making the cut were in the historic preservation and open space and recreation categories and though they were seen as interesting and valuable projects, the urgency was not prevalent enough for this cycle.

"It's a tough year," Chair Danielle Steinmann said.

The panel made its recommendations on Monday after several meetings of presentations from applications. They will advance to the City Council for final approval.  

Two cemetery projects were scored low by the committee and not funded: A $9,500 request from the city for fencing at the West Part Cemetery as outlined in a preservation plan created in 2021 and a $39,500 request from the St. Joseph Cemetery Commission for tombstone restorations.

"I feel personally that they could be pushed back a year," Elizabeth Herland said. "And I think they're both good projects but they don't have the urgency."

It was also decided that George B. Crane Memorial Center's $73,465 application for the creation of a recreational space would not be funded. Herland said the main reason she scored the project low was because it didn't appear to benefit the larger community as much as other projects do.

There was conversation about not funding The Christian Center's $34,100 request for heating system repairs but the committee ended up voting to give it $21,341 when monies were left over.

The total funding request was more than $1.6 million for FY24 and with a budget of $808,547, only about half could be funded. The panel allocated all of the available monies, breaking down into $107,206 for open space and recreation, $276,341 for historic preservation, and $425,000 for community housing.

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