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Health Care

  • 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
  • 2024 Power 100: Aimee Peacock

    Eric Casey Updated: April 29, 2024

    In her time at Flexcon, Peacock has led the company through an integration and alignment of the company’s global obligations.

    Eric Casey Updated: April 29, 2024
  • 2024 Power 100: Edward Kelly

    Emily Micucci Updated: April 29, 2024

    While Kelly understood the position of board members and the larger community to keep Milford Regional independent, he recognized it was time to link up with its longtime clinical partner as operating losses mounted.

    Emily Micucci Updated: April 29, 2024
  • 2024 Power 100: Maurice Phelan

    Eric Casey Updated: April 29, 2024

    Leading the charge for Sartorius in North America is Phelan. Responsible for the company’s 2,600 employees on the continent, Phelan is an important figure in the company’s rapid expansion.

    Eric Casey Updated: April 29, 2024
  • 2024 Power 100: Dr. Eric Dickson

    Mica Kanner-Mascolo Updated: April 29, 2024

    The past 12 months have been full of ups and downs for Dickson and UMass Memorial, while he navigated the turmoil in the healthcare industry.

    Mica Kanner-Mascolo Updated: April 29, 2024
  • 2024 Power 100: Carolyn Jackson

    Mica Kanner-Mascolo Updated: April 29, 2024

    As the leader of the largest for-profit hospital system in Central Massachusetts and the region’s second largest hospital, Jackson has been the focus of the ire of politicians and workers for nearly all of 2024.

    Mica Kanner-Mascolo Updated: April 29, 2024
  • 2024 Power 100: Marlina Duncan

    Mica Kanner-Mascolo Updated: April 29, 2024

    With Duncan’s influence, UMass Chan added a diversity, equity, and inclusion pillar to the university’s IMPACT 2025 strategic plan in 2022, picking 10 of the university’s departments to front new action plans.

    Mica Kanner-Mascolo Updated: April 29, 2024

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Rising rates of homelessness are affecting Central MA and the state as a whole, leaving cities and towns without enough shelters or public housing to assist those in need. A recent bandaid to the mounting crisis has been to turn empty office spaces into free or subsidized housing, many buildings being left empty due to the post-COVID rise in remote work. Hurdles to office conversions can be daunting, with infrastructure issues making residential building codes difficult to meet, and heightened construction and labor costs adding to the expense.