UMass Memorial Health

Central Massachusetts vascular surgeons are pioneering new devices, procedures, and service models to prevent the future healthcare system from being overwhelmed.

UMass Memorial Health -- Harrington Behavioral Health Department announced Friday it has opened a new Adult Psychiatric Unit at its Webster campus on Thompson Road.

UMass Memorial Health in Worcester has notified patients of a privacy incident last year potentially compromising personal data, in a notice distributed to those impacted by the data breach.

UMass Memorial Medical Center's chief of endovascular and vascular surgery, Andres Schanzer, MD., was appointed president of the New England Society for Vascular Surgery, according to a Wednesday press release from the Worcester hospital.

UMass Memorial Health announced Wednesday its plans to donate $1 million to the City of Worcester to establish of the Worcester Health Equity Fund.

In an internal memo, the UMass Memorial Health workforce was notified that caregivers who did not receive their COVID-19 vaccines would be terminated on Dec. 1.

In September, Mary Hsieh became the first CEO of the newly created Mass Advantage, the insurance offered by Worcester healthcare provider UMass Memorial Health and its partners.

UMass Memorial Health’s new Medicare Advantage health insurance plan, Mass Advantage, announced on Wednesday five hires who will make up its leadership staff.

In a Wednesday town hall meeting, UMass Memorial Health President and CEO Dr. Eric Dickson discussed the progression of the organization’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate, as well as plans to address the region’s bed shortage crisis.

In a Tweet on Friday afternoon, Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker told Saint Vincent Hospital and the Massachusetts Nurses Association union to end the strike ongoing at the Worcester healthcare facility since March 8.