Milford Regional Medical Center

Several Central Mass. organizations were among the 28 community hospitals to receive awards totaling $60 million from the Massachusetts Health Policy Commission (HPC), it announced on Wednesday.

WALKING THE WALKEmployees of Worcester-based law firm Mirick O’Connell, along with friends and family, participated in the...

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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.

Construction of a new wing at Milford Regional Medical Center is underway, and while the hospital's new emergency department and intensive care units will house state-of-the-art technology and boast more square footage, the availability of more private rooms may be even more attractive to prospective patients. According to hospital administrators, new construction projects at Massachusetts hospitals must feature only single-patient rooms. That measure is designed to decrease the risk of contagion between patients and increase patient privacy, which has become increasingly important under state and federal laws governing medical privacy.

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When Massachusetts passed its health care cost-containment law in 2012, policymakers acted under the logic that medical care should be treated like any other product, with customers able to shop around for the very best deal.

In a Jan. 8 press conference at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, doctors performed the...

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A local businessman has donated $5 million to renovate Milford Regional Medical Center's emergency department and intensive care unit, the largest gift in the history of the health care facility.