UMass Memorial Medical Center

As the population in and around Worcester has diversified in recent years, with more newcomers not so fluent in English, the medical community has taken what was once almost an afterthought – interpreter assistance – and made it an essential service.

UMass Memorial Medical Center and Medical Group in Worcester have appointed a doctor from Johns Hopkins Hospital to be a new chief quality officer.

A year after UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester installed a drop-box to safely dispose of opioids, more than 530 pounds of medications have been safely discarded.

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For much of the past two years, UMass Memorial Medical Center has been overhauling the eighth floor of a building on its University Campus in Worcester, first with a remade psychiatric unit and soon a cancer-specialized medical and surgical unit.

Doctors at UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester are the first in New England to use a newly approved device that has been used in only 3,000 procedures to treat aneurysms.

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.

UMass Memorial Medical Center said Thursday it has reached an agreement with the United Food and Commercial Workers union.

Hospitals in Worcester, Clinton, Framingham, Gardner and Milford have received the highest patient safety ratings in the newest report from a nonprofit hospital group.

UMass Memorial Medical Center named its new chief nursing officer Justin Precourt, who comes from leadership positions at Tufts Medical Center and Brigham & Women's Hospital.