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Worcester healthcare provider pleads guilty to $1.6M MassHealth fraud scheme

For now, the administrator of a Worcester-based group adult foster care company has avoided a one year jail sentence after pleading guilty to charges related to a $1.6-million MassHealth defrauding scheme.

Physicians criticize proposed partnership between CVS, Mass General Brigham

Primary care physicians and the Senate's health care point person are questioning a proposed partnership between Mass General Brigham and CVS that the two companies say will address gaps in comprehensive primary care access.

Task force report attempts to unpack hospital discharge backlog problem

Each day, more than 2,000 patients remain stuck in hospitals even after being cleared to leave.

Anti-poverty advocates say proposed Trump grant cuts will hurt low-income residents in Mass.

As President Donald Trump targets the Community Services Block Grant program he alleges has been "hijacked" for other purposes, Bay Staters argued that the funding provides critical support for housing assistance, child care, heating aid and more.
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Nursing facility closures putting strain on state’s elderly care infrastructure

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 chief accounting officer to become CFO

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

Worcester County CEOs elected to board of statewide advocacy organization

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

In controversial decisions, state moves to implement medication aides in long-term care

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.
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Regulators reopen investigation into Saint Vincent Hospital, amid union complaints & whistleblower lawsuit

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

Castiel to retire as Worcester health commissioner, to resume community work helping at-risk residents

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