UMass Memorial Health

As hospitals shutter services in the wake of staffing shortages, community members and health care workers will argue Thursday that the state should become responsible for hospitals that are "essential" but threatening to close.

Following a May announcement that UMass Memorial Health will shutter its maternity ward at the HealthAlliance-Clinton Hospital, Leominster Campus, community advocates continue to push for services to remain in place.

UMass Chan Medical School is launching a new clinical care and research center in collaboration with UMass Memorial Health. The new Lupus Center at UMass Chan will centralize resources at the medical school into research and treatment for the autoimmune disease.

Worcester City Council in its Tuesday meeting voted to pass a resolution urging the nonprofit behavioral health organization Community Healthlink to reopen its three programs which have been paused since late April.

Less than a month after removing its CEO, Heywood Hospital in Gardner is pausing construction on its surgical pavilion.

As Abby’s House begins an expansion, the nonprofit’s new executive director brings a decade of experience serving vulnerable Central Mass. residents.

About half a dozen legislators from the greater Leominster area did not mince words during a committee hearing Tuesday, alleging that UMass Memorial Health is putting undue strain on Bay Staters with the closure plans its leaders announced last month.

City of Worcester Mayor Joe Petty is requesting a public hearing on the April closure of several Community Healthlink programs, according to the agenda for Tuesday’s City Council meeting.

People are on the move at UMass Memorial Medical Group, Fidelity Bank, and Clark University.

Artificial intelligence offers ways to improve the burdensome electronic health records process, but a leading Westborough company urges caution amid innovation.