Health Care

The former Dunroamin Country Club is a microcosm reflecting the turbulent ups and downs the entire golf course industry has experienced over the last three decades.

SALMON Health and Retirement, a Milford-based senior care provider with locations throughout Massachusetts, is expanding into home health care, offering services including private care, hospice care, and Visiting Nurse Association services for chronic or temporary care.

Worcester’s Fallon Health has sent out 24,000 care packages to members covered under the insurance company’s Fallon Medicare Plus and NaviCare plans.

UMass Chan Medical School in Worcester will hold a job fair on March 30 to fill positions for a variety of departments, including emergency medicine, facilities management, information technology, and psychiatry,

After watching the pandemic exacerbate the need for improved access to behavioral health care, Gov. Charlie Baker doubled down Tuesday on a plan to force providers and insurers to inject up to $1.4 billion into the system over the next three years to remove barriers to care and reach people before they end up in emergency rooms.

Seven nonprofits from around Central Massachusetts are slated to receive $7.4 million in funding from the $1.5-trillion federal appropriations package signed into law by President Joe Biden on Saturday.

Autism Care Partners, a healthcare service for children with autism, held a ribbon cutting for a new facility on Harvard Street in Worcester on Saturday.

Veterans Inc. has received $430,000 to support behavioral health services for veterans and their families, as part of a the new $1.5-trillion federal appropriations bill passed in early March.

The research team, headed by UMass Chan neurology professors Brigitte van Zundert and Robert Brown discovered in a mouse study that a toxin known as polyP is a likely contributor to motor neuron death.

When state public health officials publish Monday's report about the latest COVID-19 impacts on Massachusetts, the cumulative death toll through two years of the pandemic will suddenly stand about 15 percent lower.