Health Care

The new specialists will be expanding on the company’s areas of mental health treatment, including new sub-specialty partnerships for obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) and substance use disorder (SUD). 

Three community health centers in Central Massachusetts have been selected among 22 centers across the state by MassDevelopment for its Community Health Center Grant Program. 

The New England Newspaper & Press Association has given nine journalism awards to Worcester Business Journal at part of the 2021 Better Newspaper Competition, honoring stories on the legacy of slavery in Central Massachusetts, housing discrimination in Worcester, and attempts to narrow racial and gender pay gaps.

Heywood Healthcare, one of the last independent community healthcare systems in Central Massachusetts, has agreed in principle to join the UMass Memorial Health system, seeking to become part of the network with facilities in Worcester, Marlborough, Leominster, Clinton and Southbridge.

Worcester Business Journal began listing the most influential people in the Central Massachusetts economy in 2013, using various iterations of the concept to arrive at the Power 50, which started in 2018.

The Power 50 may not necessarily hold the most power in the region, but they are the people who most effectively wielded their power to have an outsized influence on the economy and the community within the last year.

Hourly workers in Massachusetts collectively miss out on more than $1.6 billion in wages every year because of unmet child care needs, part of a roughly $2.7 billion drag on the statewide economy stemming from inadequate child care.

Clark University officially will inaugurate its 10th president, David Fithian, on Saturday, in a ceremony delayed two years by the coronavirus pandemic.

The $110 million in net income is a decrease from the $341 million in profits Boston Scientific earned in the first quarter of 2021, despite revenues increasing to $3 billion from $2.8 billion between the two quarters.

Medtronic, an Ireland-based healthcare technology company with a facility in Littleton, will partner with Chicago-based GE Healthcare to support the growing number of medical procedures now occurring outside of hospitals.