Health Care

MetroWest Medical Center Leonard Morse Hospital, a Tenet Healthcare behavioral health center in Natick, announced on Wednesday it had reached a 30-month labor agreement with Laborers' International Union of North America, which represents 75 of the center’s mental health counselors and patient care associates.

YOU Inc., a Worcester-based behavioral health nonprofit and affiliate of the Seven Hills Foundation, announced on Monday it had received a $25,000 grant from The Hanover Insurance Group Foundation, the charitable arm of the Hanover Insurance Group in Worcester, for the launch of its Whole Health Triage pilot program.

Massachusetts will soon become the next state to implement a digital vaccine passport system, falling in ranks with states like California, New York, and, most recently, Rhode Island, Gov. Charlie Baker said on a Monday episode of GBH News' Boston Public Radio.

Saint Vincent Hospital in Worcester is being ordered by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health to make a permanent decision regarding its temporary closure of 100 hospital beds, which have been closed for more than three months now.

Grifols, a Barcelona-based healthcare company, announced on Tuesday it is opening a plasma donation center at UMass Chan Medical School in Worcester.

Biostage, Inc., a biotech company in Holliston working to bring throat implants to the market, hired its founder and former CEO David Green back to lead the company after roughly six years of absence, according to a Tuesday press release.

As scientists and policymakers around the world work to figure out exactly what kind of a threat the latest COVID-19 mutant poses, Gov. Charlie Baker said Monday that his administration is trying to make it easier for residents to bolster their protection against the coronavirus by getting a booster shot.

Count Gov. Charlie Baker among the public officials who are eagerly awaiting answers to crucial questions about the latest COVID-19 mutant and whether it could alter the nature of the pandemic and the public health response.

Spectrum Health Systems, Inc. announced on Wednesday it had received a three-year accreditation from the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities International.

Framingham biotech company SCIEX announced a supply relationship with RedShiftBio, a Burlington firm specializing in analytical instrumentation for therapeutic drugs.