Health Care

UMass Memorial Health Care and the Harrington HealthCare System have filed paperwork for regulatory approval for their plans for Harrington to become part of the UMass Memorial system.

Employers may bar employees from the workplace if they do not receive the COVID-19 vaccine, under updated guidance from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, potentially solidifying a question lingering in the minds of both employers and employees for months.

Oxford Properties, a Canadian real estate firm, has acquired three Framingham properties for a cumulative $151 million, according to public records.

Westborough-based SALMON Health and Retirement has partnered with CVS Health to help vaccinate the company’s 700 residents and 1,500 staff members during a Dec. 28 clinic, the company announced on Friday.

The coronavirus pandemic will continue to rage in 2021, as the fallout creates financial crisis.

In December 2019, no one could have predicted what was to come in 2020. Still, the major trends and news items for the year largely stayed on track. Of the 10 predictions made by the WBJ Editorial Staff for the year, seven came true.

Every December, the WBJ Editorial Staff makes 10 predictions of news events and trends coming in the next year for the Central Massachusetts economy. Here's what they expect to happen in 2021.

The City of Worcester has set another single-week record in new COVID-19 cases, city officials reported Friday, a number boosted in part by an extra reporting day because of Thursday's snowstorm.

UMass Memorial Health Care, the largest employer in Central Massachusetts, plans to have all of its health providers vaccinated against coronavirus by mid-February, a period of roughly two months.

New COVID-19 cases in Worcester County set another weekly record on Thursday, surpassing 4,000 for the second straight time.