Massachusetts’ Lahey Health Cuts Ties To Behavioral Programs

Circle Connections: Mergers & Acquisitions Lahey Health, the parent company of Northeast Health Systems and Gloucester's Addison Gilbert Hospital, has relinquished operation of four programs on the North Shore that help people deal with rape, HIV, AIDs, drug abuse and mental illness, though none of the dropped programs are on Cape Ann. The programs, based in Beverly, Peabody and Lynn, have been taken over by other agencies as of July 1 and will continue to provide services, said Kevin Norton, CEO of Lahey Health Behavioral Services. The programs include Prism, which provided free HIV counseling and testing in Beverly . . .