Health Care

More than a third of WBJ readers believe the Central Massachusetts economy will decline in 2023.

The COVID pandemic exacerbated the long-held problems in health care. Things won’t get better in 2023.

In December 2022, the WBJ Editorial staff made 10 predictions of what this year’s headlines would bring. They were bold, and they were mostly wrong. We got three right. Here are our predictions and what actually happened.

Every December, the WBJ Editorial staff predicts possible news events for the coming year. Here are our predictions and why they will happen.

At the end of 2019, no one could have predicted what the following year would bring: a worldwide pandemic, an economic shutdown, the highest unemployment since the Great Depression, massive government intervention, empty offices, and the start of a recovery.

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

Worcester-based AdCare Hospital announced on Thursday that it plans to consolidate its outpatient facilities in Quincy, North Dartmouth, and West Springfield into its Worcester outpatient office as of February 28.

Farmington, Connecticut-based Athena Health Care Systems has been ordered to pay $1.75 million to Massachusetts' Opioid Recovery and Remediation Trust Fund for failing to meet needs of patients with substance use disorder.

Dr. Jennifer Tjia, professor of population and quantitative health sciences at UMass Chan Medical School in Worcester, is leading a $4.1-million, five-year grant-funded study from the National Institute of Health, exploring equity in caregiving.

Saint Vincent Hospital and the Teamsters Union Local 170 reached a tentative agreement on a new contract, potentially averting a strike planned for Dec. 26.