Education

Having too few players dictating the level of care in the region and seeing more investment in high margin areas of specialty does appear concerning.

Tenet Healthcare has sold nine hospitals since August and will sell four more, but the company has made no suggestion it will offload Saint Vincent Hospital or MetroWest Medical Center.

The Senate plans to look into UMass Amherst's proposed acquisition of Mount Ida College and one senator said he hopes to learn some answers before the agreement is completed.

Six Central Massachusetts colleges will take part in an event at the soon-to-close Mount Ida College to offer options to students who will have to continue their education elsewhere.

According to a new national ranking of best places to live, Worcester is still behind Boston and Springfield, but ahead of Providence, R.I. and New Haven, Conn.

Becker College's fourth school - the School of Humanities and Social Sciences - will open on July 1, teaching criminal justice, legal studies, education, psychology and the humanities to Becker students.

The University of Massachusetts has reached a preliminary agreement to acquire Mount Ida College, enabling the university system to establish a major presence in Newton, about ten miles from downtown Boston.

Worcester-based AdCare Hospital has launched a new outpatient program targeting Baby Boomers and older patients struggling with substance abuse.

The Massachusetts Biotechnology Council, a nonprofit formed three decades ago to support the state's life sciences industry, is aiming to make it easier for communities to make themselves ready through the right zoning and permitting programs.

After working for greeting card maker Hallmark and textbook publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt for 20 years as an illustrator, Darcy Schwartz founded ArtReach in Worcester, noticing the curriculum at her children's school didn't leave much room for art education.