UMass Memorial Medical Center

UMass Memorial Health Care failed to properly report several cases of substance-exposed births at its Worcester hospital within a required timeframe, according to the state auditor.

A nurse was stabbed by a patient while working at at Harrington Hospital in Southbridge earlier this month, the latest in a string of attacks of healthcare workers while on the job.

Local hospitals are served by thousands of volunteers, who have a real impact on patients, and the bottom line.

Doctors are finding cancers earlier and developing more effective ways to treat them.

After a nurse was attacked on Wednesday while on the job at at Harrington Hospital in Southbridge, the state nursing association called for more aggressive safety measures to protect workers at hospitals statewide.

Harrington HealthCare System plans to close its Family Birthing Center in Southbridge for financial reasons, but expectant mothers will still be able get pre- and post-natal care in its service area.

The former UMass Memorial Medical Center doctor who lost his license May 11 was disciplined for alleged sexual misconduct.

A former UMass Memorial Medical Center emergency department doctor and assistant professor at UMass Medical School resigned his medical license to the Massachusetts Board of Medicine last week.

Richard Siegrist, a health care and technology entrepreneur, will help bring UMass Memorial Health Care to new heights as its new chairman.

Seven of the 11 hospitals in Central Massachusetts had four-year readmissions rates lower than the state average, according to new data released Wednesday from the state Center for Health Information and Analysis.