Health Care

WBJ spoke to both Geoff Diehl and Chris Doughty separately after the convention to ask about economic issues in Central Massachusetts and the commonwealth as a whole.

Freilich spent more than 16 years at Milford-based SALMON Health and Retirement, working first as an executive director at Willows of Worcester before assuming the same role at the Willows and Whitney Place at Medway.

The goal of this effort is to better the health of community members in 11 communities: Ashby, Ayer, Bolton, Groton, Harvard, Lancaster, Littleton, Lunenburg, Pepperell, Shirley, and Townsend.

Veristat, the Southborough-based global clinical research organization, has promoted Cindy Henderson to the role of chief commercial officer.

Opioid-related deaths dropped in Worcester in 2021, as the number of deaths countywide remained virtually the same, according to the latest data released by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health on Wednesday.

The CEO of Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts, Jennifer Childs-Roshak, sent a letter to all staff members on June 1, encouraging employees to vote no in an upcoming union election to see if employees will be represented by Local 1199 of the Service Employees International Union, also known as United Healthcare Workers East.

Preferred Laboratory LLC of Worcester and its owner, Vipin Adhlakha of Westfield, Ind., were implicated in a scheme that resulted in more than $2 million in false claims billed to the state insurance system MassHealth.

Pang-Yen Fan, a professor of medicine at UMass Chan Medical School in Worcester, was one of five teachers across the University of Massachusetts system to receive this year’s Manning Prize for Excellence in Teaching.

Beginning on Wednesday, prominent professionals with ties to Worcester will return to the city, as currently residing local leaders discuss the ongoing economic changes and development occurring in the Heart of the Commonwealth.

Saint Vincent Hospital in Worcester announced Thursday it has invested $11 million in the Worcester hospital’s facilities and services.