Health Care

Athena Health Care Systems, a Connecticut-based healthcare management company, has sold the properties housing four of its six facilities in Central Massachusetts for a total of more than $40 million, according to the Worcester South District Registry of Deeds.

CDM Fitness Holdings, a Boston-based SBJ Capital portfolio company, announced on Tuesday that it had acquired three new Planet Fitness locations through a deal with Shane Poirier, CEO of Tristan Enterprises, LLC.

Saint Vincent Hospital in Worcester has named two new people to its executive leadership team, the healthcare provider announced on Monday.

A nearly 60,000-square-foot Class A medical office building in Natick sold for $25 million, less than a month after the sale of a 94,000-square-foot chunk of the Natick Mall, which is located across the street.

The City of Worcester delivered on Thursday a cease-and-desist order from the Massachusetts Department of Public Health to an unlicensed pop-up COVID testing site at 1 Rice Square, the city said on Thursday.

After a rocky year, Worcester science museum The EcoTarium has announced Noreen Johnson Smith, an experienced community health leader, as its new president and CEO, according to a Thursday press release from the organization.

The Health Foundation of Central Massachusetts, based in Worcester, announced its founding president and CEO, Jan Yost, will retire this spring and be replaced by the current vice president for programs, Amie Shei.

Worcester nonprofit healthcare organization Fallon Health will cover at-home COVID-19 tests for its Medicare members, according to a Thursday announcement, even though a federal requirement for private insurers to cover such tests, which goes into effect Saturday, doesn’t include Medicare patients.

Fitchburg State University announced on Thursday all classes will be conducted remotely during the first week of the spring semester.

Notre Dame Health Care Center of Worcester’s home division announced on Wednesday it will begin offering palliative care for adults living with serious illness.