Health Care

Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare announced on Friday it has formalized a three-year contract with the Service Employees International Union at Framingham Union Hospital, as a nurses strike continues at the company’s Saint Vincent Hospital in Worcester, over staffing ratios. 

In the wake of the coronavirus lockdowns and the changing news of the Delta variant, businesses are facing unprecedented obstacles as they try to bring their employees back to the office and retain a sense of normalcy. Work from home, remote, and hybrid options are just a few of the new models quickly revolutionizing workforces.

Fairlawn Rehabilitation Hospital, a 110-bed inpatient rehabilitation hospital in Worcester, announced on Wednesday the appointment of Pete Lancette as CEO.

The annual ranking by the publication U.S. News & World Report placed UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester as the sixth best hospital in Massachusetts, while Saint Vincent Hospital, also in Worcester, placed ninth.

UMass Memorial Health told staff on Wednesday it is converting the West 1 unit at the UMass Memorial Medical Center - Memorial Campus in Worcester to an all-COVID unit, after the number of admitted patients quadrupled.

The website RehabAid.com, a site focusing on helping people suffering with substance abuse issues, launched this year an interactive map tracking overdoses around the United States.

The Edward M. Kennedy Community Health Center announced on Wednesday it has purchased a nearly 30,000-square-foot building at 605 Lincoln St. in Worcester, where it plans to significantly expand its services.

Saint Vincent Hospital in Worcester announced on Wednesday it would be scaling back certain services effective Monday, blaming the ongoing nursing strike over staffing levels.

As Massachusetts prepares to adopt a new strategy to vaccinate nearly 900,000 children who could become eligible for COVID-19 shots in the coming months, public health officials are looking at an interim solution to a problem at least one drugmaker is working on: how to repackage vaccine vials into smaller bundles so that pediatricians can vaccinate patients in their offices.

The coronavirus pandemic created 15 long months of no business at The Strand historic cinema draft house in Clinton, which shows a variety of movies a few months, years, and even decades after they first debuted in theaters.