Isabel Tehan

A new survey from the Massachusetts Nurses Association delivers a grim outlook on the healthcare system, particularly among newer nurses.

Worcester nonprofit Spectrum Health Systems, a mental health and addiction treatment provider, has issued $137,000 in grants to organizations supporting those in recovery, seven of which are located in Worcester.

Genoa Healthcare, a Washington-based specialized pharmacy care provider, will open its 700th location nationwide and 17th in Massachusetts in Framingham on Wednesday.

Unemployment rates continue an upwards tick across Central Massachusetts communities, with February unemployment a couple tenths of a percent higher than in January in all three of the region’s metropolitan areas tracked by the state.

The Worcester County Mechanics Association on Monday named the four artists who have been chosen to paint portraits of prominent 19th century Black abolitionists for its Great Hall gallery.

Nearly one year after he assumed the role in interim and five months after being officially appointed to the position, Greg Weiner was inaugurated as Assumption University’s 17th president on Thursday.

An estimated 3,000 jobs were gained across the state in February, as compared to January’s revised gain of 8,900 jobs, according to a Friday press release from the Massachusetts Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Management.

Jamaican film producer and theater manager Fabian Barracks will take over as the cultural development officer in Worcester on Monday.

The North Central Massachusetts Development Corp. loaned $100,000 to DivineTouch Home Health Care in Worcester to support the agency in becoming a certified homecare agency by the Massachusetts Division of Health Care Facility Licensure and Certification.

EyePoint Pharmaceuticals has selected Hopkinton-based Gorman Richardson Lewis Architects to design its 40,000-square-foot facility.