Health Care

The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority will temporarily eliminate its local Framingham trains and alter its Worcester express services due to staffing shortages related to the surge in COVID-19 cases, according to a Thursday announcement from the MBTA.

The College of the Holy Cross in Worcester has temporarily suspended spectator attendance at all athletic events in response to the surge in COVID-19 cases, according to a Friday announcement from the athletic department.

UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester has tightened visitor restrictions again in light of the coronavirus pandemic, as well as limiting testing and expanding inpatient bed numbers.

Spectrum Health Systems, Inc., of Worcester has brought back former employee Amy George to fill a newly created role as executive director of community relations for its subsidiary, the New England Recovery Center, in Westborough, the nonprofit announced on Thursday.

The dispensary already served adult-use customers. 

Employees at UMass Memorial Health in Worcester are among millions affected by a ransomware attack the Lowell-based workforce management company Kronos Inc., resulting in discrepancies in some staff members’ pay, the healthcare provider confirmed Thursday morning.

The trade group Massachusetts Association of Health Plans re-elected Fallon Health President and CEO Richard Burke as the association's chair, effective Jan. 1, the association announced on Tuesday.

Saint Vincent Hospital likely spent, at the most modest estimate, upward of $30 million in staffing and police detail costs over the course of a 301-day nurses strike, which officially ended Monday.

Worcester County had 1,882 new coronavirus cases on Tuesday, according to data from the Massachusetts Department of Public Health.

Union nurses who have been on strike since March 8 voted on Monday night to ratify a new contract with Saint Vincent Hospital in Worcester, ending an historic 301-day strike initially hinging on staffing ratios.