Isabel Tehan

Eighteen Central Massachusetts nonprofits have been granted a combined $1.4 million from Worcester-based UMass Memorial Health in partnership with Shields Health in Quincy.

UMass Chan Medical School has partnered with Southcoast Health to enable students to complete clinical rotations at the three-hospital community-based system.

Framingham clean energy company Ameresco has signed a 20-year, eight-site contract with Colorado electric utility United Power to install a large battery system designed to improve the power grid.

EyePoint Pharmaceuticals, a Watertown-based company launching manufacturing facilities in Northbridge, has promoted its chief operating officer and president to the position of CEO.

Researchers at UMass Chan Medical School will lead a multi-institute center aiming to reduce and prevent suicide through the use of technology.

Family Health Center of Worcester has received $2.9 million from the Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human Services, part of the agency’s Community Health Center capital grant investment program.

A UMass Chan Medical School professor has received $500,000 from a North Carolina private foundation to research using cholesterol metabolites to regulate the immune system.

Ameresco, a Framingham-based clean energy and technology company, has secured four projects for California power plant sites.

The City of Worcester is launching a pilot program to test a new crisis response model for emergencies involving mental health and substance abuse components.

Following a May announcement that UMass Memorial Health will shutter its maternity ward at the HealthAlliance-Clinton Hospital, Leominster Campus, community advocates continue to push for services to remain in place.