UMass Memorial Health

A UMass Memorial Health Care employee involved in a riot that briefly overtook the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday no longer works there, the Worcester health care system said.

As the nation reels in the wake of a violent and deadly mob breaking into the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday in response to President Donald Trump’s loss in the 2020 election, leadership in and around the Central Mass. business community condemned the violence and called for healing.

It's been about as challenging a year as a hospital could face: a pandemic requiring an all-out emergency response and pushing aside day-to-day procedures and appointments that normally help make ends meet.

UMass Memorial Health Care and the Harrington HealthCare System have filed paperwork for regulatory approval for their plans for Harrington to become part of the UMass Memorial system.

UMass Memorial Health Care, the largest employer in Central Massachusetts, plans to have all of its health providers vaccinated against coronavirus by mid-February, a period of roughly two months.

State officials are expecting Massachusetts to receive 300,000 coronavirus vaccine doses before the end of the month.

UMass Memorial Health Care expects to receive 1,950 doses of a coronavirus vaccine on Tuesday, with priority given first to frontline caregivers.

Dr. Eric Dickson, the president and CEO of UMass Memorial Health Care, is urging the Worcester-based health system's employees to get the coronavirus vaccine when it's expected to begin giving doses next week.

The leaders of UMass Memorial Health Care and Saint Vincent Hospital said Tuesday they expect to be able to begin to provide coronavirus vaccines to their healthcare workers next week.

Medical professionals – especially those who work in an intensive care unit or emergency room – are used to seeing heartbreaking cases of disease, tragic accidents or violence. Virtually nothing, though, has been like the coronavirus pandemic.