Harrington HealthCare System began looking for potential partners after starting a committee in 2018 to explore the Southbridge-based system's financial future. UMass Memorial was searching as well.
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.