Health Care

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.

Steward Health Care said late Wednesday night that it has again postponed the sales hearing for its hospitals in Massachusetts, this time to next Thursday.

Pregnant people and those who recently gave birth could gain access to expanded care options in Massachusetts under compromise maternal health legislation released Wednesday.

Steve Roach, the president and CEO of two UMass Memorial Health hospitals in Marlborough and Leominster, departed from the Worcester-based healthcare system in June.