“Families are frightened, scared and beaten down. What the staff and I do is give them the strength to go to the other organizations, to get through this and get past this.”
--- Michelle Derr, CHP director of WIC [Women, Infants and Children Nutrition Program] Family Services
Chief Medical Officer for Community Health Programs, Dr. Everett Lamm is a board certified pediatrician who practiced in New Hampshire for 14 years before to relocating to the Berkshires. He served the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services as a legislative advocate, educator and speaker.
In her letter to the editor, Ruth Dinerman writes: "Now I learn that John Horan and Siobhan McNally, both astonishingly good pediatricians are not necessarily returning to CHP. That is a loss this community cannot afford."
In her letter to the editor, Tamera Gebo-Wilber writes: “Talented and highly respected nurses, nurse practitioners, and a grant writer, have left [CHP].”
In her letter to the editor, Dr. Diane Singer writes: "The health care given at CHP will suffer dramatically as wonderful providers leave in frustration, are forced out, threatened, or not welcomed back."
CHP Board of Directors has hired Lia Spiliotes, a partner and senior advisor in Cambridge Management Group to fill the gap left by the resignation of former Director Bryan Ayars.
One cannot swing a cat in town lately without hitting a controversy: Michelle Loubert complained that using CPA funds to finance repair of the historic Unitarian Universalist Meeting House in Housatonic violated separation of church and state.
“We are grateful for Bryan’s important contributions to CHP during his tenure. The Board has engaged an interim management team to bring administrative leadership to CHP in the coming months.”
--- Jodi Rathbun-Briggs, president of CHP Board of Directors
Their concern, doctors say, is that the quality of patient care at CHP’s health centers is at risk in a climate where physicians’ voices are ignored or marginalized, where staff members who raise concerns are bullied to the point where they eventually leave or are fired.
