By JULIE CUNNINGHAM
(Boston, MA) Recently Eliza Lake, Chief Executive Officer of Hill Town Community Health, appeared with Governor Baker in a state wide press conference to discuss challenges during COVID-19. Hill TOwn Community Health has locations in Huntington, Amherst, and Worthington. Lake said the challenges posed by COVID-19 were largely met by new tele-health programs. Tele-health allows patients to access their therapists, even in those rural locations that no longer have high speed internet. In those cases, patients are able to communicate to their therapists over the phone.
“Tell-health was invented in Massachusetts,” Said Governor Charlie Baker during the conference.
Baker said the arrival of COVID-19 brought Tele-health into the mainstream for patients, even though tele-health programs have existed for 20 years in Massachusetts. Baker touched on the adaptability of people during the pandemic, which he thinks will be a positive while Massachusetts plows through the impact of COVID-19.