Health Care

Framingham Union Hospital will close one of its neonatal intensive care units for newborns with critical health needs on June 10 as the hospital’s operator, MetroWest Medical Center, cites declining utilization and staff retention difficulties. 

UMass Memorial’s expanded department will be led by Mario Florez, UMMH’s new vice president of community health and caregiver belonging.

A Worcester-based non-emergency medical transportation company and its owner have been indicted for alleged patient abuse and participating in a MassHealth fraud scheme.

The AGO alleges between August and November, Henaku stole the bank cards of at least 16 elderly victims.

Conifer Life Sciences has opened at the Worcester incubator Massachusetts Biomedical Initiatives.

Mariano told top pharmaceutical and biotech leaders at MassBio's "State of Possible" conference that the House would drop the idea that the governor put forward in her $62 billion annual budget bill in January.

At a Joint Ways and Means Committee hearing in Worcester, the secretary described the next budget cycle as being about the "organizational maturation" of the Executive Office of Veterans Services.

Employees are being hired, promoted, and elected to boards throughout Mirick O’Connell, Fletcher Tilton, and MutualOne Bank.

In Central Massachusetts, a group of top business executives are taking a public stance, sticking with DEI while at the risk of losing federal revenue.

Boozang said Manatt's estimate is that states would have to increase their own spending by 20% to maintain the current program level spending if deep federal cuts are enacted.