Health Care

A host of factors are putting a squeeze on primary care practices including rising paperwork demands, pay inequities, burnout, and insurer demands for prior approval. Federal regulators and legislators are pushing an increased role for telemedicine as one possible answer.

The store will feature the company’s full line of eyewear and contact lenses and will offer eye examinations for customers.

Worcester-based insurance company Fallon Health has welcomed Dr. Jean Jaoude as vice president and medical director of the not-for-profit’s Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly.

Page will assist biopharmaceutical companies in navigating clinical and regulatory challenges to speed the delivery of innovative therapies.

Sturbridge-based human services nonprofit Venture Community Services has named Mary Bellezza as the company’s new chief financial officer. 

Veterans Inc., a Worcester-based nonprofit, has been awarded one of the largest cuts of $2 million in grant funding to 15 community organizations promoting suicide prevention among the Massachusetts veteran and servicemember community.   

LUK Crisis Center of Fitchburg and United Way of Tri-County of Framingham are among 19 community organizations receiving a total of $1.9 million in funding over the next 11 years.

As part of the Healey Administration’s efforts to bolster programs within Massachusetts working to support human trafficking survivors and those most at risk of exploitation, RIA, a Framingham-based public charity, has been selected as one of five organizations within the state splitting $1 million in funding. 

Rates of severe maternal morbidity in the state nearly doubled from 2011 to 2020, with Black birthing people among the most impacted by negative outcomes of labor and delivery.

The nursing and rehabilitation center opened in 1969. The campus underwent expansion over the next two decades, adding senior living residential units and becoming Southgate at Shrewsbury in 1989.