Health Care

With coronavirus pandemic restrictions loosening, Fred Kaelin, executive director of the Shine Initiative, is focused on expanding the nonprofit’s impact on children and adults within Worcester County and beyond. 

Vinh Ly, owner of 3B Auto Inc. on Canterbury Street in Worcester, has purchased three lots in Worcester and Auburn for just under $1.2 million.

Worcester-based behavioral health provider Spectrum Health Systems promoted Jonathan Miller as its new chief information officer, along with two new additional promotions.

A lawsuit against Marlborough medical device manufacturer Boston Scientific Corp., alleging the company’s complacency in the death of a 59-year-old South Carolina man, has been transferred to the U.S. District Court for Western New York. 

Worcester-based Fallon Health is launching a new promotion campaign, highlighting the health insurance company’s recent pivot to focusing on government-supported healthcare programs. 

YWCA Central Massachusetts in Worcester has elected Christienne Bik of Shrewsbury to serve as president of the organization’s board of directors.

The Remillard Family Community Service Fund at UMass Chan Medical School announced the 10 projects that would receive up to $20,000 in funding this year, for a total of $136,760.

Construction is complete on Boston-based GreenCare Collective’s new 100,000-square-foot cannabis facility at 12 Latti Farm Road in Millbury.

On Monday, Quinsigamond Community College in Worcester received a $750,000 workforce training grant from the state, part of $15 million awarded to the 15 community colleges in Massachusetts.

Marlborough-based Hologic Inc. announced on Monday that it was launching new respiratory and molecular diagnostic devices in the European market to assist in the detection of COVID-19, as well as for the general flu season.