Health Care

After three years of work and nearly $100 million in investments, Sartorius opened its Center for BioProcess Innovation in Marlborough on Thursday.

The Milford Regional Healthcare Foundation has raised $1.3 million for hospital renovations through its annual Mélange Gala and Live Auction, setting a record for the event’s 20-year history.

Canvassers with the nonprofit Health Care For All have fanned out across communities affected by the closures of Carney Hospital in Dorchester and Nashoba Valley Medical Center in Ayer and managed to speak with thousands of people, Executive Director Amy Rosenthal said.

Boston Scientific, a Marlborough medical device manufacturer, has officially closed its acquisition of Axonics Inc. after entering into a purchase agreement in January. 

The Hospital for Behavioral Medicine in Worcester is under investigation by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, marking the Department’s fourth investigation into a Central Massachusetts hospital in fewer than three months. 

Mariano had pulled the sprawling health care packages from negotiations during the frenzied end of formal lawmaking of July 31 into Aug. 1, while the Steward Health Care bankruptcy rocked the state's health care landscape.

The trip comes as three major health care bills addressing hospital oversight, prescription drug pricing and access, and substance use disorder remain on the rocks with less than two months remaining in the two-year session.

Worcester-based Spectrum Health Systems, one of the largest human services nonprofits in Central Massachusetts, will open a new outpatient treatment facility in the city come Monday.

The merger would see the combined company operating under the Cullgen name and headquartered in San Diego.

Built in 1987, the office building’s tenants include offices for physicians who are part of Framingham-based Charles River Medical Associates.