Health Care

Two Worcester institutions received more than $5 million in grants from the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center, which on Thursday announced $28.3 million in capital funding to institutions across the state.

UMass Memorial Health – Community Healthlink has received a three-year accreditation from the international nonprofit Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities. 

Heywood Hospital in Gardner is set to begin site work in preparation for the construction of a new surgical pavilion.

A new study from Umass Chan Medical School in Worcester has found at-home, COVID-19 antigen tests performed similarly when detecting the Omicron and Delta coronavirus variants.

Spectrum Health Systems, Inc., a Worcester-based addiction treatment nonprofit, announced eight promotions within its senior leadership team on Monday.

Worcester Polytechnic Institute named Paula Fitzpatrick, an Assumption University dean, as its first-ever director of the new Center for Well-Being.

On Monday afternoon, nurses at Saint Vincent Hospital in Worcester voted 302 to 133 against a decertification effort of their membership in the Massachusetts Nurses Association union.

UMass Memorial Health in Worcester filed a rezoning petition for the former Beaumont Rehabilitation and Skilled Nursing Center as part of an effort to add acute care medical-surgical beds to the UMass Memorial Medical Center’s University campus, according to a Thursday announcement.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency is reimbursing $1.6 million to Milford Regional Medical Center for the additional costs of operating safely and handling increased patient loads during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a Thursday announcement.

Marlborough drugmaker Phio Pharmaceuticals has begun animal studies on an antiviral compound as a potential treatment for SARS-CoV-2 infection, the virus that causes COVID-19.