Faced with declining patient discharge numbers and seeing a chance to pare costs that didn’t directly affect patients, UMass Memorial Health Care leaders in Worcester made a tough financial choice to cut much of its executive ranks.
Worcester county is one of three counties in Massachusetts and eight across New England to be hit by the broadest array of opioids: prescription opioids, heroin, and prescription–synthetic opioids, such as fentanyl.
UMass Memorial Healthcare of Worcester has joined 13 other hospitals and health systems in committing to make $700 million in investments aimed at addressing the economic, racial and environmental resource disparities impacting community health outcomes.
A 53,000-square-foot Veterans Affairs outpatient health clinic will be built in a new building planned next to UMass Medical School in Worcester, officials announced Monday.
Although far from the more sensational aspects played for drama and humor on television, Central Massachusetts healthcare providers are often faced with the same situations as their popular TV counterparts and display some of the same traits audiences have come to know and love.