Health Care

The Family Health Center of Worcester’s board opted to stand by President and CEO Louis Brady after medical personnel from healthcare provide requested a change in leadership amid layoffs, furloughs, resignations, and low morale.

Saint Vincent Hospital is eliminating its five-nurse intravenous therapy team, once other nurses at the Worcester healthcare provider are trained in administering IVs as part of their regular duties.

UMass Chan Medical School in Worcester is participating in clinical trials to determine the efficacy of flu vaccines that utilize the same platform as vaccines developed for COVID-19.

Select Worcester COVID-19 booster clinics will provide $75 gift cards to those who get vaccinated, through a program coordinated by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health.

The unemployment rate in Massachusetts in September dropped to 3.4%, down two tenths of a percentage point from August and down 1.7% from September 2021.

The Massachusetts Nurses Association union has ratified new contracts for 2,770 of its nurses at Worcester-based UMass Memorial Health's facilities in the past four months.

Magic Treasures, a Fitchburg-based business focused on alternative health care, received a $10,000 loan from the North Central Massachusetts Development Corp. of Fitchburg.

PIC Therapeutics Inc. of Natick completed a $35-million round of financing fund developments to fight drug-resistant breast cancer.

Worcester’s Family Health Center named Michael Holton as its interim chief financial officer. He replaces Jose Diaz de Leon, who departed in September.

Milford Regional Medical Center has added two da Vinci Xi robotic systems to its facilities, bringing the hospital’s total to three.