Health Care

The president and CEO of the Edward M. Kennedy Community Health Center will retire next July, the center announced Monday.

Chaffee took over in February as the leader of VNA Care, a 1,250-employee firm that's been part of the Central Massachusetts community for more than 125 years.

As CEO of one of the major Massachusetts nonprofit health insurers – and the only one headquartered in Worcester – Burke is in charge of the care for 276,893 members, representing nearly 10 percent of the total statewide market.

Dickson has worked his way up the ranks at UMass to become the $2.4-billion system's president and CEO in 2013 at just 46.

In April, Elsawy went from the CEO of the largest independent physicians' group in Central Massachusetts with 2,600 employees and 320,000 patients, to all of that plus the backing of a global organization with $85 billion in annual revenue.

In compiling our annual list of the most powerful people in the Central Massachusetts business community, there are countless CEOs, executive directors, presidents and founders to choose, from organizations with billions in revenue and offices across the globe.

A nonprofit aimed at ending the opioid epidemic in Massachusetts has given funding to Worcester's Community Healthlink and UMass Medical School.

About 1,100 gas workers were locked out of their National Grid work sites Monday, according to the heads of two United Steel Workers locals.

RYAN LANDRY is the new assistant vice president and senior consumer loan underwriter for UniBank. Landry, who...

Worcester-based VNA Care has named a Marine Corps veteran as its interim chief operating officer.