A bill filed by state Rep. Ann-Margaret Ferrante aims to boost the state’s assault on the opioid crisis by essentially taking a core element of the program launched last year by the Gloucester Police Department and expanding it statewide. Read more on the Gloucester Daily Times website→
Police Chief Leonard Campanello and backers of the Gloucester Police Department’s new approach to fighting opioid addiction outlined their so-called angel program for legislative health care leaders Friday. But they didn’t have to take their case to the Statehouse; the key Statehouse players came to Gloucester instead. Read more on the Gloucester Daily Times website→
Susan Coviello, executive director of the Gloucester-based North Shore Health Project, says state Rep. Ann-Margaret Ferrante played a key role last year in helping the center land a $120,000 grant to expand its services to hepatitis C patients and others. Now, the project is honoring Ferrante with its fifth annual Community Health Activist Award, to be…
I recently met with members of the Gloucester Youth Council and members of the Gloucester SADD at the State House when they came in to the People’s House to talk with me and share their concerns about substance abuse. They visit with me every year on Kick Butts Day, an event where students from all…
Addison Gilbert Hospital has been awarded $294,000 as part of the Community Hospital Acceleration, Revitalization and Transformation (CHART) grant program — a revenue stream once dubbed the “distressed hospital fund,” from which AGH’s parent company, Lahey Health, sought help for the local hospital last year. Read more on the Gloucester Daily Times website→