UMass Memorial Medical Center

The state began getting in touch Tuesday with more than 134,000 people currently or previously enrolled in certain state programs whose personal information was part of a data breach involving a file transfer program used by the UMass Chan Medical School.

Worcester’s UMass Memorial Medical Center has been ranked as the fourth best hospital in Massachusetts by the U.S. News and World Report.

The Leapfrog Group, a Washington D.C. based healthcare watchdog nonprofit, has released its biannual Hospital Safety Grade scores, giving one Central Massachusetts hospital an A rating while another received the second-lowest D rating.

Space and cost issues have begun to creep into Cambridge and Boston, forcing companies, especially startups, to look outside of the Route 128 belt and increasingly more towards Central Massachusetts.

A legal battle is being fought between UMass Chan Medical School and UMass Memorial Health over millions of dollars from UMass Memorial’s 2019 sale of its stake in Shields Health Solutions to Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc. 

Central Massachusetts nonprofits will receive millions of dollars in federal funding in fiscal 2023 as part of the $1.7-trillion omnibus spending bill signed into law by President Joe Biden on Friday.

UMass Memorial Health Care, Inc. in Worcester reported a $38 million operating loss in fiscal 2022.

UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester received approval on Wednesday from the Commonwealth’s Public Health Council to add 91 inpatient beds between its University campus and Memorial campus.

Hospital profits have fallen significantly across the state, including hospital systems based in Central Massachusetts, according to the latest report by the Center for Health Information and Analysis. 

Vaping has been out of the headlines for a while, as the nation’s attention turned to a more urgent respiratory issue known as COVID-19.