New Barre Family Health Center - we're open!
Dick Bray "Whenever I stop to think of my many encounters with rescue and medical personnel during my emergency visit to Barre Family Health Center, followed by my transfer by LifeFlight helicopter to UMass Memorial Medical Center, I am amazed that the right decisions could be made by so many different people at so many critical points in my life. There is no doubt that I live today because the Barre Family Health Center was, and is, available to us all when an emergency occurs. I am a walking miracle."

Dick Bray, Barre, MA

The new Barre Family Health Center opened in July 2007, and hundreds of residents of the Central Quabbin Region had the opportunity to tour the new facility after the recent ribbon-cutting ceremony.

The Barre Center is the only rural academic health center in the state and represents UMass Memorial's commitment to providing quality health care that is "close to home." It is a community practice of UMass Memorial Medical Group and a residency training site for Family Medicine for the University of Massachusetts Medical School.

Due to tremendous growth in patient volume, the need to expand the center was critical. The new $6.6 million Barre Family Health Center is double in size and supports a volume of up to 45,000 patient visits per year. This is a welcome addition to a community whose population continues to grow at a rate of 6% per year, triple the state average.

The community helped raise nearly $2.5 million in private philanthropy. Thanks to the generous support of individuals, corporations and foundations, the Barre Family Health Center continues to provide the best of health care "close to home" and with more services and features.

Among them:

  • 24 treatment rooms (18 currently)
  • Discrete area for Stress Testing
  • Dedicated, private space for phlebotomy
  • CT Scan, Mammography, Bone Density Testing
  • Dedicated Physical-Occupational Therapy Rooms
  • Casting Room
  • Enhanced services for women and children

To learn more about the new Barre Family Health Center, please call Cheryl Cusson at 508-856-1614 or e-mail cheryl.cusson@umassmed.edu.

 Barre Ribbon Cut
From left, David Gale, fundraising campaign chair, and Dr. Stephen Earls, medical director of the Barre Family Health Center, lead the ceremonial ribbon-cutting to mark the opening of the new center. Patients andmembers of the campaign join in.
Barre Equipment
New treatment rooms and technology services are among the newest features at the center, including this state-of-the-art digital x-ray in the new computer radiography lab.
Barre Interior
A spacious waiting area accommodates the increase of patient visits annually.
Barre. Earls,JOB
Dr. Earls and John O'Brien, president and CEO of UMass Memorial Health Care, thank everyone who supported the construction of the new facility
  Barre Crowd Shot
Nearly 300 people attended the festivities marking the opening of the health center. They were offered tours of the facility by medical staff members.