Health Care

The Worcester nonprofit Seven Hills Foundation has partnered with the rideshare company Lyft and the City of Worcester to provide Worcester residents free and discounted rides to and from COVID-19 vaccination sites.

Massachusetts will retire its vaccine appointment pre-registration system by the end of May and ramp up its efforts to get doses to homebound residents who cannot travel to receive the shots, the Baker administration announced Friday.

Central Massachusetts professionals are taking new jobs and getting promoted at companies like Estate Preservation Law Offices, Avidia Bank, AdCare Hospital and Banjo Health.

Students, faculty and staff wanting to participate in upcoming semesters must now be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 at Worcester schools the College of the Holy Cross, Clark University, and Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

The unemployment rate in Massachusetts ticked down 0.2 percentage points to 6.5% in April, continuing the steady decline from the high rates since the state of the coronavirus pandemic.

The board of the Worcester Regional Transit Authority public transportation system voted on Thursday morning to extend its fare-free system through Jan. 1.

Tenet Healthcare Corp., the parent company of the Worcester facility Saint Vincent Hospital where nurses are engaged in a long-running strike to lower patient staffing ratios, announced it is raising $1.4 billion from investors.

James Waters, a Framingham resident and the founder of the $19-billion Milford laboratory equipment manufacturer Waters Corp., died on Monday at age 95, the company announced on Wednesday.

Worcester’s UMass Medical School announced on Tuesday that Mireli Fino will be the next executive vice chancellor for MassBiologics on July 1, leading the organization dedicated to improving worldwide health.

Saint Vincent Hospital in Worcester on Tuesday said it has added another 49 permanent replacement positions for the striking members of the Massachusetts Nurses Association union, as the 72-day fight over staffing ratios continues.