Harrington Healthcare

Faced with declining patient discharge numbers and seeing a chance to pare costs that didn’t directly affect patients, UMass Memorial Health Care leaders in Worcester made a tough financial choice to cut much of its executive ranks.

More than five decades ago, the first U.S. surgeon general’s report warned against the health hazards of smoking. But it wasn’t until much more recently screening for lung cancer became a reliable tool. The Harrington HealthCare System is on the forefront.

A Harrington HealthCare System lung cancer screening program has grown from reviewing hundreds of patients in its first year to nearly 1,300 in the most recent year.

Harrington Hospital is now staffing its emergency departments in Southbridge and Webster with a physicians group associated with Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston.

Harrington HealthCare System has added 3D mammogram service at locations in Charlton, Southbridge and Webster.

Harrington Hospital has been designated a lung cancer screening center by the American College of Radiology.

Harrington HealthCare in Southbridge and Heywood Healthcare in Gardner will join the Massachusetts Value Alliance.

Harrington HealthCare System has opened a physical and occupational therapy clinic in Webster that allows it to expand the busy unit.

Teenagers are increasingly smoking electronic cigarettes, surpassing use of traditional cigarettes, leaving officials scrambling to respond.

The poll showed 51 percent of likely voters opposed nurse staffing requirements outlined in Question 1 while 43 percent support the measure.