Health Care

Companies with new hires and promotions include ERA Key Realty Services, bankHometown, Clinton Savings Bank, The Junior League of Worcester, AdCare Hospital in Worcester and more.

Worcester County reported 80 new coronavirus cases between Friday and Sunday as its death toll reached 900, according to the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. 

It wasn’t long ago CEOs were notably absent from such societal debates. For decades, business heads were advised not to talk about hot-button issues such as religion or politics.

At such a perilous time, the Worcester County business community is hampered by an uncomfortable problem: In the homogeneous world of business leadership in Worcester County, top officials at the area’s largest and best-known institutions are almost entirely white.

During an interview on the WBJ Podcast, Dr. Mark Johnson, chair of neurosurgery at UMass Memorial Health Care, said the scope and longevity of the protests following the police killing of Minneapolis black man George Floyd show the public attitudes and policies creating racism in America are beginning to be dismantled.

Worcester County reported 18 new coronavirus cases and one new death Thursday, according to the Massachusetts Department of Public Health.

Worcester County had a reported 18 new coronavirus cases and 11 fatalities on Wednesday, according to the Massachusetts Department of Public Health.

The emergency department staff at Milford Regional Medical Center typically prepares for a shift including patients seeking care for car accidents, heart attacks, or the rare mass casualty incident. No staff members had experienced a pandemic.

Over the course of the last year and a half, the medical and recreational cannabis retailers have grown into two very different yet overlapping businesses, largely coexisting and occasionally competing.

A trio of researchers at UMass Medical School in Worcester are attacking the coronavirus pandemic from three different angles, as part of a $17-million Massachusetts effort to help the world combat the disease which has killed more than 400,000 people globally.