Rural health grant to help isolated South County residents get care they need

Heather Bellow | Berkshire Eagle

GREAT BARRINGTON — For rural residents, isolation and poverty can make health care hard to come by.

But now there's a plan to help people stay healthy, and it now needs community input.

Fairview Hospital's Rural Health Network, of which Multicultural BRIDGE is a member, with a federal rural health grant in hand, is working to make connections among South County residents and a range of health care services, and to work on related rural issues like transportation.

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