{"id":118684,"date":"2025-11-06T13:50:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T13:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/118684\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T13:50:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T13:50:08","slug":"baystate-group-opens-agawam-facility-for-womens-health-amid-provider-shortage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/118684\/","title":{"rendered":"Baystate group opens Agawam facility for women\u2019s health amid provider shortage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a id=\"articleLabel__link\" class=\"articleLabel__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.masslive.com\/westernmass\/\" title=\"Navigate to Western Massachusetts\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Western Massachusetts<\/a>Updated: Nov. 06, 2025, 6:01 a.m.|Published: Nov. 06, 2025, 6:00 a.m.<img fetchpriority=\"high\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"sync\" alt=\"\" class=\"hero-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ZK5PLUPNOFBXZL2YSAYLKPSLWE.jpg\"\/>Baystate Ob\/Gyn Group has opened a fourth site, this one in Agawam. (The Republican file photo)<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"SJSTK5Y5GFC2PBE5TDYG7NXQH4\">AGAWAM \u2014 Women\u2019s health care centers in the Pioneer Valley have either shuttered or consolidated services over the last year. One private practice said it felt it was their \u201csocial responsibility\u201d to expand access. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"ULM4HHYGV5FN3LHROPJU734EWM\">Baystate Ob\/Gyn Group, with locations in Springfield, South Hadley and Longmeadow, has opened a fourth site in Agawam. The medical practice provides labor and delivery support, surgery and sexual and reproductive health care to women.<\/p>\n<p>Namu Sampath is an enterprise reporter at The Springfield Republican\/MassLive. You can reach her at nsampath@repub.com and follow her on Twitter at @namusampath. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--center skimlinks\">If you purchase a product or register for an account through a link on our site, we may receive compensation. By using this site, you consent to our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advancelocal.com\/advancelocalUserAgreement\/user-agreement.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">User Agreement<\/a> and agree that your clicks, interactions, and personal information may be collected, recorded, and\/or stored by us and social media and other third-party partners in accordance with our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advancelocal.com\/advancelocalUserAgreement\/privacy-policy.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Western MassachusettsUpdated: Nov. 06, 2025, 6:01 a.m.|Published: Nov. 06, 2025, 6:00 a.m.Baystate Ob\/Gyn Group has opened a fourth&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118685,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[163,521,85,46],"class_list":{"0":"post-118684","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-healthcare","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-israel"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}