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When Chip Norton set out to purchase two office towers in downtown Worcester, he knew modernizing the buildings and the adjoining property that includes a portion of a former mall would be key to the equation.

Even though they may benefit financially, Central Massachusetts hospitals have joined together with their brethren from around the Bay State to oppose efforts to limit the pricing disparity between healthcare providers.

UMass Memorial Medical Center's University Campus received only a “C” score in an industry watchdog's annual ranking of hospital safety.

A local entrepreneur has posthumously left $29 million to five Worcester-area organizations, according to a statement from Worcester Polytechnic Institute, one of the recipients.

For city leaders who have championed downtown redevelopment efforts, UMass Memorial Health Care's upcoming lease of 75,000 square feet in the Front Street office towers marks major progress toward revitalization.

When Worcester-based Reliant Medical Group announced the layoff of 78 employees early last month, the healthcare provider cited a projected budget shortfall.

In fiscal 2014, Saint Vincent Hospital was the most profitable outside of Greater Boston at $65.2 million.

A partnership between the University of Massachusetts Medical School and the University of Connecticut Health Center has been selected for up to $29.2 million in gunding as part of the federal Transforming Clinical Practice Initiative.

Two teams of researchers at the University of Massachusetts Medical School have studied a key step in HIV-1 infection — and their findings point to a possible way to fight the virus.