Isabel Tehan

Worcester’s UMass Memorial Medical Center has been ranked as the fourth best hospital in Massachusetts by the U.S. News and World Report.

Blupoint Healthcare has opened a new intake center at its Whitinsville location. The Central Intake Center will streamline the admission process for potential patients seeking respite care, residential care, and rehabilitation services.

The Worcester metropolitan area ranked 16th nationally in a 2023 SmartAsset study of the most expensive places to raise a child.

ONE Worcester, Organization for Nonprofit Excellence, has named Helen Segil its first full-time executive director. Segil was previously program director for the organization.

Girls Inc. of Worcester has reached a resolution in a racial discrimination lawsuit filed by a former employee in January 2022. 

Definitive Healthcare completed layoffs Monday of approximately 4% of its workforce, impacting more than 40 employees. This is its second round of layoffs d in 2023.

BRIDGE Innovation and Business Development, the commercialization hub at UMass Chan Medical School in Worcester, has selected 13 faculty-led research projects to fund with $2 million in capital.

Hologic reported a 74.6% revenue decrease for its COVID-19 related diagnostics testing in its third quarter as compared to last year, indicating a significant drop-off in demand for COVID testing.

Allurion Technologies, a Natick-based medtech company with a weight-loss platform, has gone public, with its first day on the New York Stock Exchange on Wednesday.

Family Health Center of Worcester ended fiscal 2023 with a $1.2-million surplus, a far cry from the organization’s financial peril in fall 2022.