Health Care

The state's existing portfolio of long-term facilities includes 348 nursing facilities, with 39,899 beds; 273 assisted living facilities, with 19,093 beds; and 58 rest homes, with 2,002 beds. Massachusetts previously had 74 rest homes, for a total of 2,404 beds, in 2015. 

Lifeward had a second executive join its C-suite transition in two months as the Marlborough-based medical device has selected its new CFO.

Both will serve two-year terms for the advocacy group supporting mental health and addiction services throughout the commonwealth. 

Health officials are rolling out regulations to implement a 2024 law legalizing the use of certified medication aides in long-term care facilities, rules that supporters say will help address severe staffing shortages but that nurses are still wary could put patients at risk.

DPH and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services launched a joint, unannounced investigation into Saint Vincent in January.

After 10 years serving as City of Worcester’s Health & Human Services Commissioner, Dr. Matilde Castiel is calling it a career, sort of.

Surrounded by health care advocates and curious tourists peering into Nurses Hall, Gov. Maura Healey signed an expanded shield law Thursday giving patients and providers in Massachusetts a new layer of defense against out-of-state intrusion into reproductive and transgender care.

The hospital hopes to see its first patient at its expanded emergency department by November 2026.

Nearly 40% of Massachusetts residents dealt with at least one unmet health-related social need in 2023, with that rate disproportionately magnified among Black and Hispanic Bay Staters, according to a new report from state health officials.

Before his departure, Bailey had previously served as the nonprofit health insurer’s interim president and CEO between January and July of 2024.