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State-Wide Support for Health Equity Bill
by Julie Bloise | Sep 21, 2023 | News
From left, are Dr. Guy L. Fish, MBA, President & CEO of Greater Lawrence Family Health Center; Dr. LaShaya Nolen, Founder & Executive Director of We Got Us; Dr. Thea James, Associate Chief Medical Officer of Boston Medical Center; and one of the bill's...
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GLFHC Hosts Workforce Development Council
Greater Lawrence Family Health Center (GLFHC) is a member of Regis College’s Workforce Development Council. Stephen Brooks, Vice President of Workforce Development & Talent Management at GLFHC, hosted the group's fall meeting at the Upstairs Conference Room at 147...
State-Wide Support for Health Equity Bill
From left, are Dr. Guy L. Fish, MBA, President & CEO of Greater Lawrence Family Health Center; Dr. LaShaya Nolen, Founder & Executive Director of We Got Us; Dr. Thea James, Associate Chief Medical Officer of Boston Medical Center; and one of the bill's...
CSS Hosts Community Event to Raise Overdose Awareness
To remember those who have died due of substance abuse, GLFHC's Community Support Services Team hosted an event for patients and the community on August 31, which is International Overdose Awareness Day. There was a big turnout for the beautiful event at the health...
CFO Receives National Award from NACHC
Congratulations to GLFHC Senior Vice President - Chief Financial Officer Maria Coppenrath, CPA, on receiving the Jeffrey T. Latman Leadership in Health Care Finance Award from the National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC). “I am very humbled by this...
Merrimack Valley AHEC director presents at national conference
GLFHC’s Ashley Hall attended the National Area Health Education Center (AHEC) Biennial Conference in Salt Lake City, Utah last month. Hall is the Center Director of the Merrimack Valley AHEC here at GLFHC, which is one of 300 AHECs across the country. At the national...
Physician named Clinician of the Year
GLFHC's John Chang, DO, has been selected as the Middlesex District Medical Society’s 2023 Community Clinician of the Year, an award recognizing professionalism and contributions as a physician. Dr. Chang is a clinic physician for GLFHC and a former medical director...
Residency Program Graduates 11 Family Physicians
Resiliency, commitment, character, grit. Those are just a few of the words used to describe Lawrence Family Medicine Residency’s unwavering Class of 2023. “You have been put through some tough times that no one would volunteer for, and you have come through on the...
Community health centers push for state support amid workforce shortages
This news article by Zeina Mohammed appeared in The Boston Globe on June 20, 2023 Community health centers, which serve over a million primarily low-income Massachusetts residents, “urgently need” investments from the state to meet growing patient demand, leaders said...
Taking on Climate Change and the Public Health Crises
The Green New Deal for Health enables the country’s health care system to respond to climate change by improving sustainability and supporting patients, providers and communities.