About Hilltown Community Health Centers, Inc.

Hilltown Community Health Center's mission is to provide high quality, accessible medical, dental, counseling and behavioral health care, and related services to people in the Western Massachusetts Hilltowns and surrounding areas.

We seek to understand and respond to the needs of our community. All services will be delivered in a caring and professional manner within a context of a partnership between persons served and staff. To achieve our mission we promote employee growth and job satisfaction and we offer continuity of care through our relationships with other organizations.

The Worthington Health Center was founded by Florence Bates and other concerned citizens in 1950. It began with Ms. Bates a nurse who had worked for the Red Cross and then for the Town of Worthington along with a part-time physician, and two semi-retired dentists.

Since then we have provided high medical, dental, and mental health care for individuals and families in the Hilltowns of rural, Western Massachusetts.

In response to community needs, our services have continued to grow throughout the years. In 1987, we built a Community Health Center in Huntington. In 1998, we established the Gateway School-Based Health Center, located in Gateway Regional Middle/High School.

In 2002, we renovated and doubled the size of our Worthington facility. For over 50 years, Hilltown families have established trusting relationships with our health care providers. We are proud to continue this tradition of meeting the needs of the hilltown citizens.