Caring Health Center CEO and leadership

As the President and Chief Executive Officer of Caring Health Center (CHC), Tania Barber, MBA leads the only federally-funded (Section 330) Community Health Center in the city of Springfield. CHC has five primary care sites throughout the region and employs 266 employees, serving 28,000 patients with over 70,000 medical visits and 20,000 dental visits annually. CHC offers primary care services with integrated behavioral health and substance abuse programs; dental services; pharmacy; a state-of-the-art wellness center that houses

a teaching and demonstration kitchen; Women, Infants and Children Nutrition (WIC) programming; many research, prevention, and education programs; interpreting services; and a refugee health assessment program, which serves the largest number of refugee and immigrant patients west of Boston. Joining CHC in 1996, Barber has worked in various roles. She began in switchboard operations and worked her way up the ladder. She would eventually become the Front Office Operations Manager, Chief Operations Officer, then Executive Vice President, followed by to her current role as President and Chief Executive Officer in 2013.

Recognized as a servant leader who has compassion for people, Barber serves as a full-time pastor and founder of Living Water Global Ministries in Springfield, Massachusetts. She sits on several boards, including the Board of Directors for the Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers, Regional Employment Board, Health New England, Bay Path University, and Be Healthy Partnership Plan Joint Operating Committee. Barber also serves as a Corporator for Florence Savings Bank. Barber received her Bachelor’s degree in Organizational Management from the University of Massachusetts in 2007 and Master of Business Administration degree in Entrepreneurial Practices and Innovative Thinking from Bay Path University in 2009.

Heather Goodhind MPH is a Chief Of Staff/ Executive Assistant to the President/CEO at Caring Health Center Inc and is based in Hadley, Massachusetts. She has worked as Residential Support Specialist at Behavioral Health Network Inc., Tobacco Control Coordinator at Greenfield Health Department, and Navigator Coordinator at Caring Health Center Inc. Heather attended University of Massachusetts Amherst between 2011 and 2013, Springfield College between 2008 and 2011, and Pioneer Valley Regional School between 2004 and 2007.

Frank Kostek is a CFO at Caring Health Center Inc.

Jacqueline Johnson, MEd has served as the Chief Operations Officer at Caring Health Center since 2011. Johnson joined the health center in 2008, bringing over 10 years of prior experience in the non-profit management sector. Since completing her undergraduate studies at Mount Holyoke College and graduate studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Johnson has held various leadership roles, driving strategy and policy to improve operational quality. In 2017, Johnson began working as a part-time Adjunct Faculty at Bay Path University, providing guidance to women so that they, too, can enrich communities. Johnson has served as a board member on several non-profits in Western Massachusetts, including Bay Path University’s Advisory Council and the Mental Health Association Board of Directors. Most recently, Jacqueline, was honored by BusinessWest as a member of the “40 Under 40” Class of 2017.

Jasmine Naylor is a Chief Executive Vice President at Caring Health Center Inc and is based in Springfield Massachusetts Area.

Jonathan Moseley attended undergraduate and medical school at the University of North Carolina

in Chapel Hill. He then completed his Internal Medicine residency at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He is also completing a Masters of Public Health degree from Johns Hopkins University. He is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians.

While maintaining his primary care practice in the US, he has traveled on short-term international medical projects in Haiti, Bolivia, China, Czech Republic, and Peru. In his career, he has served as Medical Director for a volunteer charitable clinic and Physician Director of Continuing Medical Education for a local hospital.