Health Care

SALMON Health and Retirement has named Susan Dooley as the Milford senior care provider’s new chief marketing officer.

Slamming an "impotent charade of oversight," the state's largest nurses union renewed its call for the Healey administration to prevent the closure of Carney Hospital and Nashoba Valley Medical Center after regulators said both facilities provide "essential service."

Carney Hospital and Nashoba Valley Medical Center each provide an "essential service necessary for preserving access and health status" in their areas, public health regulators concluded this week.

The Veterinary Urgent Care Center system has broken ground on a new Worcester veterinary hospital location slated to start accepting patients come November.

"Enough is enough," Gov. Maura Healey declared Friday as she announced that all the bankrupt Steward Health Care hospitals still up for sale have new owners lined up and that the state is going to assist in the transitions with financing and, in one case, the use of its property-taking powers.

Each year, these small 40 Under Forty groupings are challenged to top each other to take the best photos, and every year people rise to the occasion.

The nearly 1,000 winners of the 40 Under Forty awards from the last 25 years have gone onto great things, and we catch up with 25 alumni for the 25th anniversary.

This special edition is a celebration of everything the 40 Under Forty has meant to the Central Massachusetts business community over the last 25 years, with a heavy focus on the incoming Class of 2024.

A lawyer representing Steward Health Care said in court Friday morning that the company is "close" to signing purchase agreements for at least five of its six for-sale hospital campuses in Massachusetts.

The year-long search for a new leader at Central Massachusetts’ largest hospital may soon be coming to an end.