UMass Memorial Medical Center

UMass Medical School in Worcester is collaborating with Johns Hopkins University on two new coronavirus treatment and prevention studies using convalescent plasma.

The U.S. has some of the highest maternal mortality and morbidity rates compared to other developed countries.

Four Central Massachusetts hospitals have been included in an annual rating of the best places to receive specialty care services.

UMass Memorial Medical Center has begun a pilot testing program using saliva to test for the coronavirus, offering a new method in addition to the more common nasal swab.

Worcester County recorded 15 new coronavirus cases and nine fatalities Wednesday, according to the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. 

In a flash this spring, Reliant Medical Group in Worcester was suddenly using video and phone technology to have patients meet with health providers for about a quarter of the visits that used to take place in person.

UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester is loosening visitor restrictions for non-coronavirus patients at a time when virus patients are becoming far fewer in number.

The coronavirus pandemic has been an unprecedented challenge for UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester, and not just in terms of caring for hundreds of stricken patients. The hospital sits in a roughly $75-million deficit, including a loss of $25 million in March and $40 million to $45 million in April.

The field hospital set up at Worcester's DCU Center is winding down operations with fewer than a dozen coronavirus patients in the past few days.

UMass Memorial Medical Center is testing about 70% of its admitted patients for coronavirus and has plans to soon test all.