KENNETH GUILBAULT, FACHE, FACMPE, NAMED CEO OF

COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER OF FRANKLIN COUNTY

 March 28, 2013

GREENFIELD, MA- Kenneth E. Guilbault has joined Community Health Center of Franklin County (CHCFC) as Chief Executive Officer.  “We are very pleased to have Ken on board and look forward to working with him,” says Board President Terrence Blanchard. 

Guilbault has been a senior healthcare executive at two not-for-profit community hospitals, most recently as the Vice President of Clinical and Professional Services at Cooley Dickinson Hospital, in Northampton, MA.  He was also Executive Vice President at Brighton Medical Center in Portland, ME. 

Guilbault holds a bachelor’s degree in Biology from the University of Massachusetts – Amherst and a master’s degree in Business Administration from Western New England University in Springfield, MA. 

As CEO, Guilbault is responsible for the overall operations of CHCFC, which is a Federally Qualified Community Health Center (FQHC) with locations in Greenfield, Orange and Turners Falls.  An FQHC provides coordinated, comprehensive primary and preventive medical, dental, nutrition and behavioral health services to residents in the underserved urban and rural communities of Franklin County and the North Quabbin areas. 

“I am very excited to join the team at CHCFC.  By providing health care to populations that couldn’t otherwise access and/or afford it, health centers provide a huge benefit to the greater American society” said Guilbault.

Guilbault resides in South Hadley with his wife.