The HOPE program provides preventative and health maintenance care to seniors in their homes. The HOPE nurse can do vital sign and blood pressure checks; home safety assessments; medication management; flu shots; assistance in completing health care proxy forms; arranging appointments with physicians and specialists; referrals for homemaker help and much more.

The podiatric nurse provides foot care, the team physician makes home visits as necessary.

• Staff: Mary Kane, RN, Michelle Taylor, RN, Kip Moeller, Podiatric Nurse, Beverly Dunn, Podiatric Nurse.

• Eligibility: Residents, over 60, of Chesterfield, Cummington, Goshen, Plainfield, Worthington, Westhampton and Williamsburg. All services are free to eligible participants. Some services available to Russell and Huntington residents.

• Access: Call Michelle Taylor or Mary Kane at (413) 238-5511 ext. 131 or speak with your primary care physician.

• Funding provided in part by: The Town of Chesterfield through a Community Development Block Grant administered by the Hilltown Community Development Corporation, the Town of Huntington Council on Aging and the Town of Russell Council on Aging.

Michelle Taylor, RN

Mary Kane, RN

Wellness Works! Program

Located in the Gateway Family Center, this service provides Hilltown residents with healthy lifestyle program opportunities including nutrition counseling and education, smoking cessation assistance and physical activity programs. These programs are part of the Health Center’s commitment to support people in leading healthy lives and taking increased responsibility for self-management of chronic conditions.

The Nutrition Specialist and Smoking Cessation Specialist will provide individual and group sessions and educational programs in a variety of locations including at the Gateway Regional School through the School-based Health Center. The program will also make available opportunities to engage in locally-run exercise or physical activity classes and workshops.

Rachel Keim Nutrition Specialist	Sollena Morginn Smoking Cessation Specialist & Health Outreach Worker

• Access: Call Wellness Works at 413-667-2204

• Funding provided in part by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health

• Location/Mailing Address: PO Box 444, 9 Russell Road, Huntington MA 01050

• Directions to Gateway Family Center

HEALTH WISE

HEALTH WISE is a program offered to health center patients who are living with Asthma, COPD [Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease], Depression, and Diabetes and who are referred by their health center provider. A team of trained Community Health Workers [CHW’s], including a nutritionist and a smoking cessation specialist, are ready to work with people who live with these diseases and who are motivated to take a personal, proactive role in managing their health care. The HEALTH WISE CHW acts as a guide to help set individual goals and specific tasks that can be successfully incorporated into daily life for the person living with Asthma, COPD, Depression, and Diabetes.

Staff: Rachel Keim, Diane Meehan, Lisa Mollison, Sollena Morginn, Kim Savery

Eligibility: Health Center patient living with Asthma, COPD, Depression and Diabetes and referred by health center provider

Phone Contact: 413-667-2203

Funded through a grant from the Massachusetts Department of Public Health

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