Health Care

Dr. Eric Dickson may be the perfect leader for UMass Memorial Health Care. He intends to use...

Southborough-based RxAdvance acquired prescription monitoring company SentiCare of Hopkinton Monday.

Harrington Hospital in Southbridge was named a 2013 “Top Hospital” by The Leapfrog Group, making it one of seven in Massachusetts, and the only one in Central Massachusetts, to win that designation.

Despite a denial for a special permit to renovate and expand the former Marist Retreat Center in Framingham, Walden Behavioral Care CEO Stuart Koman said he remains “firmly committed” to pursuing approval — this time through an appeal in land court. Walden, a Waltham-based treatment center for people with eating and mood disorders, filed for a special permit to renovate and expand the site on Pleasant Street (Route 30), to accommodate its new headquarters and an 80-bed treatment facility.

The University of Massachusetts Medical School has licensed technology to treat cancerous tumors to a newly-formed biopharmaceutical company.

What makes one hospital better than another? It seems like a straightforward question, and it's one that various organizations have tried to answer by publishing reports that measure how well hospitals take care of patients by looking at factors like mortality numbers, infection rates and readmissions data.

A doctor gets a message from a patient, including a photo of a rash, diagnoses the problem...

This fall, Whitcomb House, a 55-unit, family-owned assisted-living residence in Milford, was quietly acquired by one of...

In the two months since UMass Memorial Health Care and Springfield-based Baystate Health announced they were exploring a potential collaboration, the two hospital systems have said little about how they might join forces to realize efficiencies and improve quality, as UMass spokesman Robert Brogna said was the intention back in September.

A couple who claimed that mismanagement by doctors at UMass Memorial Center led to cerebral palsy in their daughter earned $4.25 million in a settlement last week.