Health Care

A joint venture between Tufts Medical Center in Boston and Quincy-based Shields Health Care Group Inc., is on track to proceed.

A community partnership of five nonprofit organizations aimed at serving MassHealth patients with better care coordination has named Allison Bernier vice president.

Worcester-based Notre Dame Hospice last week announced it has expanded its pediatric palliative care services to the Merrimack Valley area.

UMass Memorial Health Care and Reliant Medical Group have launched an online platform designed to help patients get the social services they need.

A Tennessee addiction treatment practice has finalized its $85-million acquisition of Worcester addiction treatment providers AdCare.

The Massachusetts Health Connector for Business and the New England Business Association today announced they will partner to make health insurance more accessible for small businesses in the Bay State.

Fallon Health and Tufts Health Plan each reported positive net income for 2017, while Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care posted losses.

Cheryl Gallant, of Coghlin Companies Inc. in Worcester, is one of two new board members at Spectrum Health Systems.

The City of Worcester said it will file a lawsuit against companies making and distributing opioids, seeking damages for the cost of opioid treatment and prevention.

Tufts Health Plan of Watertown, which has an office in Worcester, is extending its reach in New England in a joint venture with a Hartford healthcare system.