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UMass Memorial Health Care is temporarily stopping new appointments for COVID-19 vaccines for patients because of a dose shortage, with the announcement to staff on Friday coming less than a week after the Worcester hospital system opened a patient vaccine center at the Mercantile Center.

UMass Memorial Health Care opened a new COVID-19 vaccine site at downtown Worcester's Mercantile Center on Monday in the latest step to dole out as many vaccines as possible.

UMass Memorial Health Care President and CEO Dr. Eric Dickson has been named the new chair of the Massachusetts Health & Hospital Association, the Boston hospital advocacy nonprofit announced Friday.

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.