Banking & Finance

Slamming an "impotent charade of oversight," the state's largest nurses union renewed its call for the Healey administration to prevent the closure of Carney Hospital and Nashoba Valley Medical Center after regulators said both facilities provide "essential service."

The 92,000-square-foot building named Exchange Place is planned for the site of the closed Rowe Funeral Home.

Researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute have received a $2-million grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation to develop tools for research and law enforcement in an effort to combat the multi-billion-dollar illegal wildlife trade.

Carney Hospital and Nashoba Valley Medical Center each provide an "essential service necessary for preserving access and health status" in their areas, public health regulators concluded this week.

Grafton-based Homefield Credit Union has named returning employee Sarah Miller as the financial institution’s new senior vice president and chief lending officer.

"Enough is enough," Gov. Maura Healey declared Friday as she announced that all the bankrupt Steward Health Care hospitals still up for sale have new owners lined up and that the state is going to assist in the transitions with financing and, in one case, the use of its property-taking powers.

Each year, these small 40 Under Forty groupings are challenged to top each other to take the best photos, and every year people rise to the occasion.

The nearly 1,000 winners of the 40 Under Forty awards from the last 25 years have gone onto great things, and we catch up with 25 alumni for the 25th anniversary.

This year’s winners were chosen from 398 nominations submitted for 221 professionals in 2023 and 2024.

A lawyer representing Steward Health Care said in court Friday morning that the company is "close" to signing purchase agreements for at least five of its six for-sale hospital campuses in Massachusetts.