UMass Memorial Medical Center

As registered nurse Janet Mapes wrapped the lower half of Paul Cleary's left leg in gauze, she...

LAUREN B. SCHIFFMAN has been hired as director of communications for Natick-based Century Health Systems. The firm...

The Federal Bureau of Prisons has awarded a five-year contract worth approximately $12 million per year to UMass Medical School (UMMS), the school announced.

UMass Memorial Health Care has named UMass insider Dr. Eric W. Dickson as its new president and CEO.<br> The 46-year-old Dickson will succeed John O'Brien, who has been at the helm of Central Massachusetts' largest employer for the past decade. O'Brien will step down Feb. 25. Dickson is president of UMass Memorial Medical Group, a subsidiary of the health care system. That has 1,060 physicians and 2,200 other employees, as well as revenue of more than $460 million. The Princeton resident is also a senior associate dean at the University of Massachusetts Medical School where he is a professor of emergency medicine. In addition, Dickson is a practicing emergency department physician at UMass Memorial Medical Center and a faculty member at the Institute of Healthcare Improvement in Cambridge.

A host of dignitaries will be on hand this afternoon when University of Massachusetts officials dedicate their new $400-million Albert Sherman Center at UMass Medical School, a state-of-the-art biomedical research and education facility that opened earlier this month.

Last year, UMass Memorial Medical Center reported that 60.6 percent of its health care workers had received...

Quest Diagnostics has completed its previously-announced purchase of UMass Memorial Medical Center's clinical outreach laboratory business, the...

The largest nurse’s union in Massachusetts says it opposes hospital policies that require staff who have not...

Former Marlborough Hospital president John Polanowicz has been named the state's Secretary of the Executive Office of Health and Human Services.

Hospitals in Central Massachusetts were among the least profitable in the state, on average, in the quarter...