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Health Care

  • Opponents of psychedelics decriminalization form campaign, cite home grow provision as concern

    Chris Lisinski | State House News Service May 3, 2024

    A new campaign chaired by a Massachusetts General Hospital surgeon will oppose a potential ballot question seeking to decriminalize some psychedelic substances.

    Chris Lisinski | State House News Service May 3, 2024
  • DPH extends use of hospital temporary beds amidst capacity challenges

    Alison Kuznitz May 3, 2024

    Overburdened Massachusetts hospitals are allowed through next April to keep using temporary beds to bolster their capacity to care for patients.

    Alison Kuznitz May 3, 2024
  • Hologic to acquire UK-based breast cancer tech manufacturer for $310M

    Mica Kanner-Mascolo April 30, 2024

    Hologic, a Marlborough-based medical device manufacturer, is expanding its product catalog through the planned $310-million acquisition of Endomagnetics. 

    Mica Kanner-Mascolo April 30, 2024
  • More than 350,000 dropped from MassHealth since April 2023

    Chris Lisinski | State House News Service April 30, 2024

    On the verge of completing a year-long process to reassess eligibility for every member, the MassHealth public insurance program has now cut more than 350,000 people from its rolls since last April.

    Chris Lisinski | State House News Service April 30, 2024
  • 2024 Power 100: Lou Brady

    Mica Kanner-Mascolo Updated: April 29, 2024

    After the coronavirus pandemic threw an already strained healthcare system into chaos, Lou Brady appears to have pulled FHCW out of a deep dive and turned around a once-tenuous financial position.

    Mica Kanner-Mascolo Updated: April 29, 2024
  • 2024 Power 100: Dominique Muldoon

    Emily Micucci Updated: April 29, 2024

    Muldoon paid one of the highest prices in standing up for what she believed in: She lost her job.

    Emily Micucci Updated: April 29, 2024
  • 2024 Power 100: Jessica Pepple

    Emily Micucci Updated: April 29, 2024

    RFK Community Alliance’s hire of Jessica Pepple into a newly created top leadership position is a model for how to infuse diversity, equity, and inclusion principles into an organizational culture.

    Emily Micucci Updated: April 29, 2024
  • 2024 Power 100: Dr. Michael Collins

    Emily Micucci Updated: April 29, 2024

    Under Collins' leadership, the UMass Chan footprint has grown, making space for cutting-edge research, and new partnerships are bringing students to valuable training sites in other parts of the state.

    Emily Micucci Updated: April 29, 2024
  • 2024 Power 100: Steve Kerrigan

    Mica Kanner-Mascolo Updated: April 29, 2024

    Just three years after joining the health center, Kerrigan reported in his 2022 “From the Desk” letter it had provided care to a then record-breaking 31,356 patients in 85 languages, issuing 137,707 prescriptions.

    Mica Kanner-Mascolo Updated: April 29, 2024
  • 2024 Power 100: Udit Batra

    Emily Micucci Updated: April 29, 2024

    Despite Waters' broad reach, under Udit Batra the company remains closely tied to the local community with its 1,800 employees in Central Massachusetts and is highly regarded as a great place to work.

    Emily Micucci Updated: April 29, 2024
  • 2024 Power 100: Parth Chakrabarti

    Emily Micucci Updated: April 29, 2024

    Formerly an executive with top biopharmaceutical companies such as Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Sanofi Genzyme, and Johnson & Johnson, Parth Chakrabarti has dedicated his life to developing and bringing to market therapies for multiple diseases in

    Emily Micucci Updated: April 29, 2024
  • 2024 Power 100: Rachel Blessington

    Emily Micucci Updated: April 29, 2024

    As outcomes for mothers and newborns worsen, Blessington is striving to revolutionize the way babies are born.

    Emily Micucci Updated: April 29, 2024
  • 2024 Power 100: Brian Gibbs

    Mica Kanner-Mascolo Updated: April 29, 2024

    Gibbs joined UMass Memorial as the hospital system’s inaugural vice president and chief diversity, equity and inclusion officer in 2020, selected from a nationwide search.

    Mica Kanner-Mascolo Updated: April 29, 2024
  • 2024 Power 100: Paula Fitzpatrick

    Emily Micucci Updated: April 29, 2024

    Fitzpatrick plays a vital role in helping WPI create a culture of health and well-being, something the school grappled with in the wake of seven student deaths in less than a year, nearly all of them suspected to be suicides.

    Emily Micucci Updated: April 29, 2024
  • 2024 Power 100: Rozanna Penney

    Mica Kanner-Mascolo Updated: April 29, 2024

    Penney has become the sole Heywood CEO and invested her efforts into turning around the healthcare system’s finances while focusing on the needs of communities.

    Mica Kanner-Mascolo Updated: April 29, 2024
  • 2024 Power 100: Meg Delorier

    Updated: April 29, 2024

    Delorier stepped in as the head of Devens for state-backed lender and developer MassDevelopment in September 2022 applying years of military base management and economic development to act as the interim point-of-contact for the 4,400-acre mixed-use

    Updated: April 29, 2024

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Should Massachusetts do more to encourage outdoor cannabis cultivation?
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The overwhelming majority of legal Massachusetts cannabis is grown in indoor cultivation facilities, where quality and product safety is easier to control, but these facilities draw large amounts of energy, particularly for lighting and HVAC systems. The Massachusetts Cannabis Control Commission offers perks to outdoor growers, with expedited business license application reviews and lower fees. The CCC has talked about adding additional perks for outdoor growing, such as speciality sustainability labels for their products, but none of those proposals have garnered significant consideration. Of the 130 licensed marijuana growers, 25 grow outdoors.