BHS Provider Profile: Dr. Elisabeth Berger

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Dr. Elisabeth Berger
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Dr. Elisabeth Berger has joined Berkshire Family Practice Associates in North Adams, a Berkshire Health Systems affiliate.
 
Berger is a board-certified Internal Medicine physician with a passion for accessible community-based care. She is partnered with Dr. Catherine Keating and Tiffany Poplaski, Family Nurse Practitioner at Berkshire Family Practice in North Adams.
 
Dr. Berger received her medical degree from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Faculty in collaboration with Columbia University and completed her residency in primary care and social internal medicine at Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, N.Y.
 
She received her master's degree in public health from the Department of Population and Family Health at Columbia University with a focus on migrant and refugee populations.
 
Prior to medical school, she lived and worked in rural Haiti with Partners In Health, where she implemented programs focused on HIV, multidrug-resistant tuberculosis, and pediatric malnutrition. She has worked with Doctors Without Borders, UNICEF, and Physicians for Human Rights, where she helped to design, implement, and evaluate comprehensive health-care programming in resource-poor settings. Most recently, she served on the Board of Directors at Tapestry Health, a community-based nonprofit advocacy organization providing sexual and reproductive health, harm reduction, and WIC services at clinical sites across Western Massachusetts.
 
Dr. Berger joined Berkshire Medical Center's Hospitalist Department in 2017 and now is excited to be with Berkshire Family Practice Associates in North Adams in her transition to community primary care. Her interests include health systems strengthening, community-health workers, harm reduction and health-equity activism. An enthusiastic flower farmer, maple syrup maker and hiker, she lives with her family in Williamstown.
 
Dr. Berger is currently accepting new patients at Berkshire Family Practice Associates, located on the North Adams campus of Berkshire Medical Center. To make an appointment, call 413-664-5550.
 




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Clarksburg Gets 3 Years of Free Cash Certified

By Tammy DanielsiBerkshires Staff
CLARKSBURG, Mass. — Town officials have heaved a sigh of relief with the state's certification of free cash for the first time in more than three years.
 
The town's parade of employees through its financial offices the past few years put it behind on closing out its fiscal years between 2021 and 2023. A new treasurer and two part-time accountants have been working the past year in closing the books and filing with the state.
 
The result is the town will have $571,000 in free cash on hand as it begins budget deliberations. However, town meeting last year voted that any free cash be used to replenish the stabilization account
 
Some $231,000 in stabilization was used last year to reduce the tax rate — draining the account. The town's had minimal reserves for the past nine months.
 
Chairman Robert Norcross said he didn't want residents to think the town was suddenly flush with cash. 
 
"We have to keep in mind that we have no money in the stabilization fund and we now have a free cash, so we have now got to replenish that account," he said. "So it's not like we have this money to spend ... most of it will go into the stabilization fund." 
 
The account's been hit several times over the past few fiscal years in place of free cash, which has normally been used for capital spending, to offset the budget and to refill stabilization. Free cash was last used in fiscal 2020.
 
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