MetroWest Medical Center

As cost pressures mount from health-care reform efforts at the state and federal levels, hospitals are continually seeking out alliances within the industry.

Tufts Medical Center and Vanguard Health Systems New England, the parent of Saint Vincent Hospital and MetroWest Medical Center, have signed an affiliation agreement to enhance and expand cardiovascular services to patients in Central and Eastern Massachusetts, according to a statement from Tufts.

Nashville-based Vanguard Health Systems will be acquired by Tenet Healthcare Corp., a Dallas-based health care services company, the organizations announced Monday.

Andrei Soran, CEO of MetroWest Medical Center, has begun a new job with Vanguard Health Systems, the for-profit hospital operator that owns MetroWest's hospitals in Framingham and Natick, the hospital said in a statement.

MetroWest Medical Center has been a for-profit hospital for more than a decade, but profits have been...

LAUREN B. SCHIFFMAN has been hired as director of communications for Natick-based Century Health Systems. The firm...

Hospitals in Central Massachusetts were among the least profitable in the state, on average, in the quarter...

As the country continues to shake off the effects of the recession that hit in 2007, MetroWest's...

Nurses employed at MetroWest Medical Center's Leonard Morse Hospital in Natick announced plans to picket as a...

Seven years after it bought three Central Massachusetts hospitals, for-profit operator Vanguard Health Systems has its eye...