MetroWest Medical Center

The MetroWest Medical Center has added 14 adult beds devoted to mental health treatment in Natick with the opening of the Center for Behavioral Medicine at Leonard Morse, according to the center.

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Most MetroWest-area hospitals were profitable in fiscal 2013, but profits faltered considerably at most hospitals, year over year, according to a report issued last week by the Massachusetts Center for Health Information and Analysis (CHIA). CHIA released the financial information in its 2013 Massachusetts Acute Hospital Financial Performance Report, the first such report by the agency, which is tasked with monitoring health care spending under the state's 2012 health care cost containment law.

What makes one hospital better than another? It seems like a straightforward question, and it's one that various organizations have tried to answer by publishing reports that measure how well hospitals take care of patients by looking at factors like mortality numbers, infection rates and readmissions data.

Tufts Medical Center announced it has opened a new primary care office in Framingham in partnership with MetroWest Medical Center. The practice, called Tufts Medical Center Primary Care, will refer patients in need of follow-up care to specialists at both Tufts Medical Center in Boston and MetroWest Medical Center in Framingham and Natick, according to a statement from Tufts. Tufts Medical Center Primary Care offers same-day appointments and on-site laboratory services at its location on Route 9, at 85 Worcester Road, next to Shopper's World.

When hospital executives learned they could see a cut in their Medicare reimbursements over preventable patient readmissions,...

Three of the least safe Bay State hospitals are located in Central Massachusetts, according to a report compiled Wednesday by a nonprofit.

Saint Vincent Hospital and MetroWest Medical Center are now officially under a new owner.

With its purchase by Tenet Healthcare Corp. pending, Vanguard Health Systems, the parent company of Saint Vincent Hospital and MetroWest Medical Center, reported a slight drop in net income for its recently completed fourth quarter, but a jump for the fiscal year.

Minuteman Health, the state's only member-governed health insurance plan, received its license to operate from the Massachusetts Division of Insurance (DOI) and had its premium rates approved so it can sell plans in 2014.