Health Care

Gardner manufacturer Precision Optics Corp. anticipates the process of listing its shares on the Nasdaq stock exchange to be completed in the coming weeks.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency will reimburse Worcester healthcare provider UMass Memorial Health $3.6 million for operating a COVID field hospital at the DCU Center twice during the first year of the pandemic.

Colonial Life & Accident Insurance Co., a subsidiary of Tennessee-based insurance company Unum, opened an office at the One Mercantile building in Worcester, which will serve as the hub for the company’s New England operation.

Rockland Trust has provided $29 million in financing to Waterstone Properties Group of Needham, for the construction of a surgical pavilion expansion at Heywood Hospital in Gardner.

Phosphorex, a Hopkinton-based drug delivery-focused contract development and manufacturing company, has named a new CEO following a growth capital investment. 

UMass Memorial Health-Harrington, in Southbridge, has launched a behavioral health emergency service pod.

The board of directors of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts has named its first female CEO, Sarah Iselin, the Boston-based health insurer announced at the end of August.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency will reimburse the City of Worcester for operating the 250-bed DCU Center field hospital in the initial phases of the coronavirus pandemic.

The Greater Worcester Community Foundation on Wednesday named Tim Johnstone as its interim president and CEO while the GWCF board of directors continues its search to find a full-time CEO following Jim Ayers resignation from the $200-million foundation after five months on the job.

Five years since its creation and now made up entirely of a second wave of commissioners, the Cannabis Control Commission and the legal marijuana sector that it oversees are at a critical crossroads and regulators are gearing up for a rulemaking round that one commissioner said could "make or break" the industry here.