Health Care

Form First Physical Therapy, a new physical therapy clinic, opened its first location at 48 Main St. in Sturbridge on Nov. 1.

Sunovion Pharmaceuticals of Marlborough will lay off 360 of its 1,200 employees, effective Jan. 13.

Worcester healthcare providers UMass Memorial Health and Reliant Medical Group, along with insurer Fallon Health, have been selected to four of the 17 MassHealth accountable care organizations.

Acton medical device manufacturer Insulet Corp. issued a voluntary medical device correction on its Omnipod DASH Personal Diabetes Manager on Oct. 17.

Definitive Healthcare Corp., a publicly-traded company based in Framingham, specializing in market intelligence, named Jon Maack to be the company’s new president.

The nursing home sector in Massachusetts says its worker shortage remains at "historic highs," as senior care facilities struggle to find and retain people qualified to care for the state's most vulnerable residents.

The Massachusetts health care system withstood the upheaval of the COVID-19 pandemic, but widespread staffing shortages and an outdated, reactionary payment model that fails to prevent illnesses linger as major challenges that need to be addressed, Gov. Charlie Baker said Wednesday.

Tufts Medicine plans to take over cancer services in early 2023 at the MetroWest Medical Center in Framingham, which is owned by the parent company of Saint Vincent Hospital in Worcester. 

Fitchburg-based Rollstone Bank & Trust elected Brian Anderson as chairman of its board of directors.

Worcester insurer Fallon Health has donated $200,000 to the City of Worcester to establish a five-year fitness program at the Worcester Senior Center.