Baystate Medical Center News

The teenage driver of a car that struck and fatally injured a Connecticut motorcyclist last July has been given a suspended jail sentence and community service, speaking about distracted driving.

Search crews used boats, divers and a helicopter to try and find the teen around the area off Cleveland Street known as "High Rock."

SPRINGFIELD - An unidentified Hartford man was shot and wounded as he stood with friends on the street.

CHICOPEE -- A Meadow Street convenience store clerk stabbed in the hand during an armed robbery late Wednesday night was taken to Baystate Medical Center in Springfield for treatment.

A 49-year-old Sandy Hook, Conn., man is in critical condition at Baystate Medical Center in Springfield from a motorcycle accident Sunday afternoon on Beaver Street , according to a hospital representative.

Fire Lt. Thomas Paquin said the accident, at 14 Water St., was reported about 11:30 a.m. A crew working on ladders on the building's third floor was dismantling the roof when a section measuring approximately 40 feet by 6 feet crashed down on one of the workers.

Authorities continue to investigate a head-on car crash Tuesday afternoon that sent two people to the hospital, one of them by helicopter with serious injuries.

Governor Deval Patrick and the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center today announced over $100 million in grants for life-sciences-related capital projects in western Massachusetts, including $95 million for the University of Massachusetts Amherst and $5.5 million for the Pioneer Valley Life Sciences Institute , a joint venture of Baystate Medical ... (more)

La Prevencion de Caidas, translated into English as "falls prevention," will be the focus of a program in Spanish presented at Baystate Medical Center on June 6 from 5 to 7:30 p.m. for Baystate High Street Health Center elder patients enrolled in Senior Care Options.

HOLYOKE - Police continue to probe Sunday's fatal shooting on Cabot Street in South Holyoke, the city's second homicide in less than a week.

SPRINGFIELD - One driver was injured in a two car accident that caused one one car to roll over on its roof Sunday night.

CHESTER - A man was transported by Life Flight emergency helicopter to Baystate Medical Center Thursday afternoon after apparently injuring himself in a logging accident, police said.

Medical oncologist Grace Makari-Judson is chair of the Baystate Health Breast Network and co-director of The Rays of Hope Center for Breast Cancer Research.

AMHERST - A 22-year-old woman was killed while riding a bicycle near the Amherst College campus Sunday.

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SPRINGFIELD - Police continue to investigate a Wednesday evening shooting at the intersection of Hollywood Street and Belmont Avenue that left one Hispanic male victim in serious condition with multiple gunshot wounds.

Hinsdale Fire Chief Larry Turner accepts the Fire Department's Support Agency of the Year Award for building a rehabilitation vehicle to treat the first responders at calls.

Baystate Franklin Medical Center president Chuck Gijanto insists in a countywide letter that the hospital is increasing its medical services - a direct response to resolutions approved in 10 towns that urge the hospital to keep its local services intact.