Health Care

During an interview for the WBJ Podcast, entreprenuer Amy Lynn Chase detailed how she is thinking about slowly reopening her businesses in Worcester and Hudson once the coronavirus shutdown of non-essential business in Massachusetts is lifted.

Worcester County had a reported 34 new coronavirus deaths over the weekend, bringing the total so far to 312.

UMass Memorial Medical Center has a count of coronavirus patients nearing 200, of which 69 are in intensive care. The Worcester hospital is also leading operations at a field hospital at the DCU Center. But hospital leaders are already planning ahead post-surge, with more than 1,000 procedures backed up through April.

As Massachusetts state and business officials gather to establish the plan to re-open the economy perhaps by May 18, Worcester entrepreneur Amy Lynn Chase joins The Weekly Business Report podcast to detail her businesses' struggles since the coronavirus pandemic became a reality in Central Massachusetts.

Coronavirus cases in Worcester County have risen by 237, with 13 new deaths, according to Massachusetts Department of Public Health data released Friday.

The American Family Care urgent care center in Worcester is now offering the COVID-19 antibody test, the office announced in a press release on Friday.

The heads of Worcester Polytechnic Institute and Westborough healthcare information technology firm eClinicalWorks have been tapped for a Massachusetts advisory board to help shape a reopening of the economy from the coronavirus pandemic.

Confirmed coronavirus deaths in Worcester County rose by 12 on Thursday, with 250 new cases, according to Massachusetts Department of Public Health data.

UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester, which like other hospitals has had to prohibit nearly all visitors, is now loosening restrictions on visitors to coronavirus patients in end-of-life care.

Milford Regional Medical Center has announced shifts to the patients its urgent care locations will serve, with the Hopkinton location focusing on respiratory patients and those with COVID-19 symptoms.