Monica Benevides

The filing comes just days after a 301-day nurses strike ended at Saint Vincent, during which WBJ estimates the company spent, at minimum, $31 million over the course of the work stoppage. 

In a Tuesday public health advisory, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health clarified its recommendations related to who and when people infected with and/or exposed to COVID-19 should undergo testing.

The Community Foundation of North Central Massachusetts, in Fitchburg, announced on Tuesday the forthcoming launch of a new Racial Equity Grant Program, which will officially open on Monday, the Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday. 

A COVID-19 testing site at the Mercantile Center in Worcester is closed on Tuesday due severely low temperatures, UMass Memorial Health announced on Monday.

The long-awaited digital COVID-19 vaccination card, sometimes referred to as a vaccine passport, launched on Monday, according to an announcement from the Gov. Charlie Baker Administration.

Garvin remembers Googling – and misspelling – her name while on the call. But then, the dots started to connect.

UMass Memorial Health President and CEO Dr. Eric Dickson is pleading with his team leaders to voluntarily redeploy administrative staff to support the system’s coronavirus testing sites at the Mercantile Center in Worcester and the New England Sports Center in Marlborough.

UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester has tightened visitor restrictions again in light of the coronavirus pandemic, as well as limiting testing and expanding inpatient bed numbers.

The Black Economic Council of Massachusetts has named Nicole Obi as its new president and CEO, effective Monday, BECMA announced on Thursday. 

Spectrum Health Systems, Inc., of Worcester has brought back former employee Amy George to fill a newly created role as executive director of community relations for its subsidiary, the New England Recovery Center, in Westborough, the nonprofit announced on Thursday.