GLFHC Pulse On Health Podcast: Recent Episodes
Marc Lemay
From a new plan of treating patients to advances in the Pharmacy program, Dr. Guy Fish hosts this All Site meeting from the GLFHC North site in late February. He'll talk about how assembling a car relates to the future of healthcare with Chief Medical Officer Dr. Zandra Kelley. Also in this edition, Alicia Mam DaCunha and Chief Pharmacy Officer Diane Martin will talk about a new and innovative program that will change the way patients receive their medications, outside of GLFHC.
When we say the words “Patient Experience”, what your thoughts are about that topic, depend on who you are. If you are a patient, you consider the patient experience to involve timely and swift appointments, and results that will, in the end, make you feel better physically and mentally. But what about if you’re a physician? You are expected to make the patient feel better physically and mentally, but also meet other requirements important to your role. Joining us this week for this conversation is Dr. Lance Braye, a former resident at the Lawrence Family Medicine Residency program who is now practicing medicine in South Carolina.
This week’s edition takes you behind the scenes to another All Site Meeting, this one from our soon-to-be-expanded West Site, located at 700 Essex Street in Lawrence. Dr. Guy Fish, President and CEO of GLFHC talks about the strategic plan, as well as news from the Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers and updates from the Department of Public Health.
In this edition of Pulse On Health, we'll be hearing from Chief Medical Officer Dr. Zandra Kelley, talking about the new Affiliated Care Organization (ACO) called C3 that GLFHC will be joining in 2023. Dr. Kelley will explain what an ACO is and what changes patients can expect in the coming months. In our second segment, we'll be talking with Nurse Practitioner Lisa Howe about School Based Health Centers and how they affect students health and wellness, without having to leave school to do it.
In this edition of Pulse on Health, we're going to hear from Amy Bositis about the Community Support Services program, based out of 100 Water Street in Lawrence, as well as a new COVID treatment center based out of a new site at 25 Marston St. in Lawrence.
Dr. Guy Fish joins us from our South clinical site for this edition of Pulse On Health for this month's "All Hands Meeting".
On the heels of coronavirus now comes Monkeypox and while there is reason for concern, trends are starting to head in a positive direction. Dr. Katrina Baumgartner is a family physician at the GLFHC North site in Lawrence, and she joins us on this edition of Pulse On Health to talk about the Monkeypox virus and whether or not you should be concerned about contracting the virus.
Individuals interested in the Jynneos monkeypox vaccine can call Greater Lawrence Family Health Center. Appointments can be made by calling 978-557-2319 Monday through Friday from 8 AM to 4 PM
Restorative Justice in education was the topic in the second session of the GLFHC Speaker Series hosted by Greater Lawrence Family Health Center at Lawrence High School. The series touched on the many different meaning of the term restorative justice and also the many restorative practices that help improve schools that serve the most vulnerable students in our communities. The guest panelists are Quin Gonell, Manager of Restorative Justice at Lawrence High School and Jadi Tavaras, head of school at Esperanza Academy.
Restorative Justice in education was the topic in the second session of the GLFHC Speaker Series hosted by Greater Lawrence Family Health Center at Lawrence High School. The series touched on the many different meaning of the term restorative justice and also the many restorative practices that help improve schools that serve the most vulnerable students in our communities. The guest panelists are Quin Gonell, Manager of Restorative Justice at Lawrence High School and Jadi Tavaras, head of school at Esperanza Academy.
Join Dr. Guy Fish, President and CEO of GLFHC during this edition of Pulse On Health, presented from Methuen Family Health Center.
Just over a year ago, Dr. Guy Fish joined GLFHC as the new CEO of the community health center. In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Fish has also begun to spearhead a new partner Accountable Care Organization and an overall strategic planning session. He has also implemented monthly All Site meetings at various locations to keep staff informed and updated, and hosted the inaugural “GLFHC Speaker Series” at Lawrence High School. All that while heading up one of the largest community health centers in the Commonwealth. Dr. Fish joins us, one year later, to bring us up to date on his first year of service.
In this week’s edition, we’re bringing you part two of the GLFHC Speaker Series on Health Inequity, moderated by Dr. Guy Fish, President and CEO of Greater Lawrence Family Health Center. The panelists include Michael Curry, President and CEO of the Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers and Juan Fernando Lopera, Chief diversity, equity and inclusion officer at Beth Israel Lahey Health.
GLFHC is proud to introduce a new Speaker Series which is expected to take a look at in depth health and health related questions. The first program in the series took place in late June and the topic surrounded health inequity. The guests – Michael Curry, president and CEO of the Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers and Juan Fernando Lopera, Chief Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Officer at Beth Israel Lahey Health.
In June, GLFHC graduated nine new physicians from the Lawrence Family Medicine Residency program. Based at GLFHC, in partnership with Lawrence General Hospital, LFMR is the first family medicine residency program in the US based in a community health center. In this edition of Pulse On Health, we feature highlights from this years graduation ceremonies.
Two different community health events are taking place over the next few weeks. LLEAPS and Bounds is an event taking place on June 16th, and National HIV Testing Day is taking place on June 27th. In our first segment, we’ll be talking with Lt. Dan Flemming of the Lawrence Police Department about the event on June 16th at the Lawrence campus of Northern Essex Community College. In our second segment, Irving Atkins from the GLFHC Community Support Services program will highlight some of the happenings during the Testing Day event on the 27th at 100 Water Street in Lawrence.
In this edition of Pulse On Health, we’re going behind the scenes at the monthly “All Site” meeting. This month, the meeting was held at the North Site, located on Park St. in Lawrence. Along with updates from the North team, we’ll also be hearing portions of a roundtable discussion about the changing model of healthcare in Massachusetts and how it’s going to affect GLFHC and it’s patients. The conversation is being led by Dr. Guy Fish, President and CEO of Greater Lawrence Family Health Center.
Mental Health Awareness Month is celebrated every year in May. This year, the theme is “Back To Basics” with the goal of providing foundational knowledge about mental health. In this edition of Pulse On Health, Dr. Sarah Pearson, Licensed Clinical Psychologist at Greater Lawrence Family Health Center joins the conversation to help bring mental health into focus, especially during the times of COVID-19.
COVID numbers are on the rise in the region, once again. Our guest this week is Dr. Zandra Kelley, Chief Medical Officer at GLFHC. She’s going to bring clarity to the increase in the numbers and information regarding COVID 19, and also talk about other topics – such as allergies and an expanded flu season.
In this edition of Pulse On Health, we’re going to feature highlights of the 17th Annual Making A Difference Gala, held on May 4th at the Andover Country Club. The goal of the event was to raise awareness and funds to support expansion of behavioral health services at GLFHC. Featured in this edition will be Dr. Guy Fish, President and CEO of GLFHC and Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker, who was the evening’s keynote speaker
In this week’s edition of Pulse On Health – we sit in on the most recent All Site Meeting, hosted by Dr. Guy Fish, President and CEO of GLFHC. We also hear from Dr. Zandra Kelley, Chief Medical Officer about some of the more recent COVID statistics. Finally, we’ll be hearing from Rich Napolitano, Chief Strategy Officer, as he does a quick overview of what the External Relations department does for GLFHC.
The first week of April is celebrated as National Public Health week. The theme this year is “Public Health is where you are.” Susan Polan, Associate Executive Director of Public Affairs and Advocacy from the American Public Health Association is this week’s guest to talk about what public health is and how we are all affected by public health policy.
In this week’s edition of Pulse On Health, we bring you excerpts of the most recent GLFHC All Hands Meeting which was held at the West clinical site at 700 Essex Street in Lawrence. Dr. Guy Fish, President and CEO of GLFHC talks about expansion plans at West as well as the value of the Lawrence Family Medicine Residency program.
Every 107 seconds, someone in America is sexually assaulted. With April being Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month, we figured we’d take the time to talk with Arelis Huertas, Director of Community Based Domestic and Sexual Violence Program from the YWCA Northeastern Massachusetts to talk about sexual assault in our community.
There are over 1,200 school-based health centers throughout the United States and 50 in Massachusetts alone. In this edition of Pulse On Health, we celebrate February being National School Based Health Center month by talking with Lisa Howe, Nurse Practitioner at the GLFHC school-based health center, located in Greater Lawrence Technical High School. She talks about the services provided at the center, as well as how school-based health centers help lower absentee numbers in the schools where they are based.
Take a listen behind the scenes of this month’s ‘All Hands’ staff meeting, held on February 11th. GLFHC President and CEO Dr. Guy Fish talks about a Boston Globe story that featured both a GLFHC patient and the efforts made by staff to make sure the patient was well taken care of. Also, hear an update from Chief Medical Officer Dr. Zandra Kelley as to the improving COVID numbers in the Merrimack Valley.
When we say the words “Patient Experience”, what your thoughts are about that topic, depend on who you are. If you are a patient, you consider the patient experience to involve timely and swift appointments, and results that will, in the end, make you feel better physically and mentally. But what about if you’re a physician? You are expected to make the patient feel better physically and mentally, but also meet other requirements important to your role. Joining us this week for this conversation is Dr. Lance Braye, fourth year resident at the Lawrence Family Medicine Residency program.
Learn more about the mission and vision of GLFHC, as well as hear a story of a patient who has changed her life with Dr. Guy Fish, President and CEO of GLFHC as well as other members of the Senior Leadership team through the All Site Meeting held last week across GLFHC.
En esta edición especial de Pulse on Health dirigida específicamente a la comunidad Latina, las doctoras Angela Sterling y Alaina Aristide estarán hablando en español de la cambiante situación del Coronavirus en el Valle del Merrimack, y aclararán algunas de las confusiones sobre hacerse la prueba del Covid en casa o en un entorno médico, así como de otros temas importantes relacionados con el Coronavirus.
The Omicron variant of Coronavirus has taken center stage during the first weeks of 2022 and there’s a bit of confusion regarding testing at home versus testing in a medical setting, like at the GLFHC tent outside of the clinic in Methuen, or at the Lawrence General Hospital operation on Canal Street in Lawrence. Joining us in this edition of Pulse on Health is Dr. Nick Weida, Medical Director of the Haverhill Street clinic at GLFHC.
Between Coronavirus and the implementation of a new Electronic Medical Records system, Dr. Guy Fish has been busy during his first six months at the helm of GLFHC as President and CEO. We look back on the past half year in community health and some of the goals Dr. Fish has in mind for the second half of the year, and beyond.
It’s another month and as we’re about to make our way into 2022, our hot topic remains Coronavirus. There’s the ever-present Delta variant, still running rampant throughout the world, and now there’s the Omicron variant which has yet to make its mark. On this edition of Pulse On Health, our guest will be Dr. Nick Weida, Medical Director of the Haverhill Street clinic at GLFHC talking all things Coronavirus.
GLFHC operates one of the only Healthcare for the Homeless programs north of Boston, serving a host of communities in the Merrimack Valley. Dr. Ryan Dono, one of the providers in the program, will talk about healthcare for the homeless, why a program like this is so important, some of the challenges faced by the patients, as well as the providers.
A doctor talking about the distrust of the medical system? In this edition of Pulse On Health, Dr. Lance Braye talks about some of the issues facing patients and health care providers and how patients distrust the medical system. Dr. Braye talks about his own experiences, both as a patient and a physician in both the Merrimack Valley and in his home state of South Carolina.
Community Support Services at GLFHC offers a wide variety of services and not all of them are medical related. In this week’s edition of Pulse On Health, we introduce you to Amy Bositis and Sandra Silva, two people from the CSS program at Greater Lawrence Family Health Center. They’ll be talking about the wide range of services provided by the Community Health Workers at the 100 Water Street location.
As we begin the month of November, COVID 19 is still front and center here in the Merrimack Valley. In this edition of Pulse On Health, our guest will be Dr. Zandra Kelley, Chief Medical Officer at Greater Lawrence Family Health Center to bring us up to date on the information needed to make a smart decision regarding booster shots and third vaccine doses.
There are over 2,000 school-based health centers in the US providing health care to young adults, and two of them are in Lawrence and Andover. In this edition of Pulse On Health, we talk with Tania Maria and Lauren Jones, Nurse Practitioners at the GLFHC Lawrence High School health center to talk about the program. Also in this edition, Rich Napolitano, Chief Strategy Officer for GLFHC stops by to talk about In Pink, one of the health center’s signature fundraisers coming up in October.
On this week’s episode of Pulse On Health, part 2 of the interview with Dr. Guy Fish, President and CEO of Greater Lawrence Family Health Center. Dr. Fish talks about health insurance reform in Massachusetts and the country, as well as the new Electronic Medical Records system being rolled out at GLFHC.
Dr. Guy Fish is the new President and CEO of Greater Lawrence Family Health Center. In the first of a two part program, we talk about the role of community health centers within the community as well what his years of experience in the for profit world, as well as being a physician, can bring to GLFHC.
COVID 19 continues to be front and center when it comes to healthcare conversations. From this week’s approval of Pfizer vaccine by the FDA to kids heading back to school, Dr. Zandra Kelley, Chief Medical Officer of GLFHC is the guest this week on Pulse On Health, answering questions and giving no nonsense answers around vaccinations, vaccination mandates and kids masking up as they head back to the classroom.
Natural remedies haven’t been on the typical radar screen for physicians to “prescribe” to patients, but, they are becoming more and more prevalent. On this week’s edition of Pulse On Health, Dr. Lance Braye, fourth year resident at the Lawrence Family Medicine Residency program takes questions about natural remedies and how they can play a role in self care.
August is Breastfeeding Month - and a great opportunity to promote the benefits of breastfeeding. This week we talk with Dr. Jennifer Somers, a family physician and lactation consultant at GLFHC. Dr. Somers talks about the benefits of breast feeding and about some of the programs offered to expectant moms at GLFHC.
In this edition of Pulse On Health, we talk with Chief Medical Officer Dr. Zandra Kelley - all about COVID. We get an update as to the stats in the Merrimack Valley and we ask Dr. Kelley to pull out her physician's crystal ball to give her ideas as to where we are going with vaccines and COVID in the region.
In this edition of Pulse On Health, we bring you portions of the Lawrence Family Medicine Residency graduation ceremony held in late June. For more information about LFMR, visit http://www.lawrencefmr.org
Sports medicine is not a new medical specialty, but it has become more accepted in today's medical environment. Dr. Warren Bodine is the Director of the Sports Medicine program at GLFHC. In this edition of Pulse On Health, Dr. Bodine talks about sports medicine, as well as youth sports injuries and concussion management.
We continue our conversation with Massachusetts League of Community Health Center President Michael Curry. In the second part of our interview, we talk about race relations in the United States and how things can, and are, changing in the country.
Michael Curry took on the role of President and CEO of the Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers - the organization that oversees more than 50 community health centers in Massachusetts - in January of 2021. Aside from providing primary care for 97% of all zip codes in Massachusetts, community health centers are playing a major role in the fight against COVID 19. This episode is Part 1 of 2 of our interview with Curry.
Planning and logistics are the topics for this edition of Pulse On Health. We're joined by Rich Napolitano, Senior Vice President of External Relations to talk about the Health Center's efforts to roll out the vaccine to the residents of the Merrimack Valley. We also touch upon fundraising in a pandemic, with discussion about our virtual fundraiser coming up later in June.
Quitting smoking isn't easy - but it can be a lifesaver. Ashley Hall, Director of the Northeast Tobacco Free Community Partnership talks about her program which addresses smoking and tobacco cessation in more than 40 communities on the North Shore and Merrimack Valley.
Pregnancy is a very special time, and pre-natal care is very important for mom and baby. Fourth year resident Dr. Caroline Komanecky joins us this week to talk about both topics with a bit of a focus on expecting during COVID-19
On the edition of "Pulse On Health", Dr. Zandra Kelley, Chief Medical Officer at GLFHC, gives us an update on the COVID-19 situation in the Merrimack Valley. She also talks about the possibilities of booster shots, she explains the Johnson and Johnson vaccine "pause", and the recent changes in the directions regarding mask wearing in public.
A two part episode on this edition of Pulse On Health. In the first segment, we talk with Dr. Elie Ata about lower back pain - what causes it and how we can relieve ourselves of it. In the second segment, we talk with Alicia Mam - director of the unique Pharmacy Residency program at GLFHC.
In this edition, our guest is Dr. Rebecca Lee. She is a fourth year resident of the Lawrence Family Medicine Residency program where her area of concentration has been addiction and the homeless. We talk about the opioid crisis in the Merrimack Valley, what defines addiction and about how addiction isn't just about illegal substances (or substances at all.)
In this edition, our guest is Dr. Wendy Barr, Vice President of Clinical Education and Residency Program Director/DIO at the Lawrence Family Medicine Residency, based at GLFHC. We talk about the history of the program and about how LFMR played a critical role in the care of COVID patients at Lawrence General Hospital.
In this edition of Pulse On Health we talk with Irving Atkins who is part of our Community Support Services (CSS) program and talk about the services provided by CSS on a daily basis.
In this edition of Pulse On Health, we talk with Chief Medical Officer Dr. Zandra Kelley and receive an update on the COVID 19 situation in the Merrimack Valley.
In this edition, we take excerpts from a community conversation held between physicians at GLFHC and members of the City of Haverhill government and clergy.
Governor Charlie Baker, Lt. Governor Karen Polito, Massachusetts Secretary of Health and Human Services Mary Lou Sudders and other officials visited a vaccination site hosted by the Lawrence Housing Authority and staffed by Greater Lawrence Family Health Center professionals. In this edition, we’re going to bring you most of the press conference that followed that visit.
In this edition of Pulse On Health, we're joined by Shenty Barrios of the Human Resources Department to talk about Employee Recognition Week and how GLFHC is one of the top 10 employers in the City of Lawrence.
In this edition of "Pulse On Health", we begin our "Ask A Doc" segment with Dr. Tuhin Roy, 4th year resident at the Lawrence Family Medicine Residency program, based at GLFHC. This episode is all about winter ailments - the common cold, the flu, muscle pulls and more.
In this edition of Pulse On Health, we talk with GLFHC Chief Medical Officer Dr. Zandra Kelley all about COVID 19 - how it started, where it's been and where she thinks treatment is going.
In our first edition, we talk with GLFHC President and CEO John Silva about how the health center has handled the COVID 19 crisis. We also talk with Chief Medical Officer Dr. Zandra Kelley, along with Dr. Cara Smith and Dr. Lance Braye as they answer questions about COVID 19 and the vaccine roll out in Massachusetts.