Kennedy Community 5K Now a Walk/Run, In and Out of Polar Park By: John Conceison Kennedy Community Health and Worcester Red Sox have partnered to present the center's annual 5K walk/run at Polar Park this year When the event began in 2015, it was a fine walk in the park in Worcester for a tremendous [...]
Sarah Connell Sanders: Polar Park’s first 5K is two weeks away I have a feeling the Kennedy Community Health Annual 5K Walk & Run will mark a lot of firsts for Worcester. Aside from being the inaugural 5K at Polar Park, it is also the first in-person race for many of Worcester’s runners who [...]
Worcester health center focusing on community vaccination efforts PHOTO | GRANT WELKER Edward M. Kennedy Community Health Center's Milford medical clinic By Sam Bonacci Worcester’s Edward M. Kennedy Community Health Center announced Monday it has been expanding efforts to distribute COVID-19 vaccines to the Central Massachusetts communities through ongoing partnerships. After vaccinating thousands [...]
Changing power dynamics: The Kennedy Community Health Center has purposefully remade its board PHOTOS/MATTHEW WRIGHT, BOWDITCH & DEWEY(From left) Valerie Zolezzi-Wyndham, board chair of the Edward M. Kennedy Community Health Center, with new board members Emmanuel Larbi and AiVi Nguyen By Devan Greevy To better represent its patient population, the board of directors [...]
A COVID-19 vaccine and free ticket offered by Worcester Red Sox WORCESTER — Baseball fans will be able to get a COVID-19 vaccine at Polar Park during the six-game homestand of the Worcester Red Sox. The team announced Tuesday that up to 50 Johnson & Johnson vaccines will be administered each game, in partnership with [...]
WORCESTER — The Edward M. Kennedy Community Health Center received $6.2 million in American Rescue Plan funding, U.S. Rep. James McGovern announced Thursday. "We're proudly grateful to (the fund), President Biden and Jim McGovern for his leadership in the house to get the plan passed," said Stephen Kerrigan, president and CEO of the Edward M. Kennedy Community Health [...]
After a year of battling the pandemic, Central Mass. community health center workers play a leading role in the vaccination effort CHRIS VILLANI | NEWS SERVICE OF BLUE CROSS BLUE SHIELD OF MASSACHUSETTS Community health center workers, who have served many of those most vulnerable to COVID-19 over the past year, are now on the front [...]
In so many ways, 2020 was a year without equal. The COVID-19 pandemic drastically changed our daily lives, reaching every family, every community throughout Central Massachusetts, and every country across the world. Our healthcare system was tested in ways not seen in over 100 years. Now, a much-needed source of hope has arrived as [...]
PHOTO | MATT WRIGHT The Family Health Center of Worcester Worcester's two community health centers, which more often treat low-income or vulnerable populations, treated more than 57,000 patients in 2018, totaling nearly 315,000 visits, according to a new report. The Family Health Center of Worcester and the Edward M. Kennedy Community Health Center also [...]
WORCESTER — Stephen Kerrigan embraces challenges. Kerrigan became president and CEO of the Edward M. Kennedy Community Health Center in July 2019, and since then, and especially over the last seven months, the center has faced challenges, obstacles and changes, but also taken pride in the way it has continued to provide quality health [...]