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Community health CEO looks to pay it forward with new training center

WAMC Northeast Public Radio | By Paul Tuthill
Published October 10, 2023 at 9:38 AM EDT
Tania M. Barber, President and CEO of Caring Health Center
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Tania M. Barber, President and CEO of Caring Health Center

Caring Health Center opens Tania M. Barber Learning Institute

A community health center in Springfield, Massachusetts has opened a facility to train people for entry-level jobs in health care.

The Tania M. Barber Learning Institute is named in honor of the President and CEO of Caring Health Center. Barber began as a switchboard operator in 1996, rose through the ranks, and has led Caring Health for the past decade.

At a recent ribbon-cutting ceremony, WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief Paul Tuthill spoke with Barber.
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The record-setting tenure of Springfield Mayor Domenic Sarno. The 2011 tornado and its recovery that remade the largest city in Western Massachusetts. The fallout from the deadly COVID outbreak at the Holyoke Soldiers Home. Those are just a few of the thousands and thousands of stories WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief Paul Tuthill has covered for WAMC in his nearly 17 years with the station.
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