In addition, the Barre Family Health Center sees a significant amount of minor traumas such as lacerations, sprains, fractures and burns. In addition to their ER experience, residents in Barre continue to learn orthopedic and casting techniques, and wound care management on a longitudinal basis. Noontime conferences, specialty consultations, and medical students add to the academic environment at the health center. Our inpatients are admitted to Memorial Health Care, located 23 miles from the health center. All the health center's obstetrical patients are delivered there.
Residents deliver their own patients with backup by health center faculty.
The health center is proud to have an outstanding office staff who are supportive of the concepts of Family Medicine training. The faculty consists of four Board-Certified Family Physicians with more than fifty years of combined experience in Family Medicine, two psychologists, a nutritionist, and a podiatrist. Visiting faculty include a psychiatrist, OB-GYN, and cardiologist monthly. All Family Physicians have faculty appointments in the UMass Department of Family Medicine and Community Health. Residents are attracted to Barre by the challenges and opportunities of providing health care in a rural setting.