Health Care

Fallon Health of Worcester has acquired a third-party administrator of self-insurance Group Insurance Service Center Inc. (GISC), expanding its reach into the market.

Gardner-based Heywood HealthCare has finalized the purchase of a property Petersham where it will build a treatment center for patients in need of behavioral health services, the community health system announced.

State officials with roles overseeing and drafting rules for the Massachusetts healthcare market targeted Medicaid waste, disparities in contracts between insurers and providers, and the cost of pharmaceutical drugs at a hearing Tuesday on health care cost trends.

The state's Health Policy Commission (HPC) has been awarded a $300,000 grant by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to continue its work researching consumer behavior and perceptions in health care, the agency announced Tuesday.

Doctors at the University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMMS) were entrenched in the Liberian health system long before the historic Ebola Virus outbreak that came to a frightening head last year. The Worcester medical school had been working in that country to strengthen medical education and infrastructure since 2006, after the system had been ravaged by civil war that ended a few years earlier.

Community Healthlink, a provider of behavioral health and addiction services in Central Massachusetts, has received a three-year, $335,000 grant to support area colleges and universities with detecting and responding to mental illness on campus.

A group of health care professionals led by the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester have been awarded a $20 million grant to expand their efforts toward preventing another Ebola outbreak in Liberia.

As patients struggle to access medical care at a time and place that fits into their lives, Massachusetts laws laying out tasks that can be performed by nurse practitioners are among the country's most restrictive, health experts said Monday during an annual health care cost trends hearing.

This morning, Milford Regional Medical Center officials and invited guests are gathering at the community hospital on Prospect Street to celebrate the end of a $54 million expansion project that adds space and technology in the emergency department and intensive care unit, as well as patient rooms.

Sterling resident Sandra Doyon knows well two sides of caring for patients in the hospital. Doyon, who...